Chapter 1. Overview of Model-Based Systems Engineering

MBSE is the formalized application of modeling to support system requirements, design, analysis, verification, and validation activities beginning in the conceptual design phase and continuing throughout development and later life cycle phases.

—INCOSE, Systems Engineering Vision 2020

You’re reading this book to learn the Systems Modeling Language (SysML)—either to create SysML models on your systems engineering team, to earn the OMG (Object Management Group) Certified Systems Modeling Professional (OCSMP) certification, or both. SysML, however, is only one facet of a larger subject: model-based systems engineering (MBSE). MBSE is a practice; it’s something you do. And SysML is a graphical ...

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