Interface management with MBSE

Interface management involves the interoperability of systems through interfaces across multiple engineering domains. An interface is the system boundary where the system interacts with other systems. In systems engineering, the goal is to avoid or mitigate interface failures as early as possible in the product lifecycle. Interface management is about standardizing and controlling interfaces to achieve system success. By implementing an interface management solution in your organization you are better able to streamline communication, identify the critical interfaces, and monitor progress on them.

Active Workspace provides the tools to manage interfaces throughout the product lifecycle:

• Revise
• Change process management
• Review and comment

With Active Workspace, you can monitor the product development at differing levels with a roll-up of the critical interfaces, their status, and who is responsible for them. Software, mechanical, and electrical engineers can easily collaborate on interfaces in a co-development environment.

Active Workspace helps manage interfaces with visual definition of your systems along with their points of interfacing, and further elaborating the needs for success.