Program Overview

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Program Overview

The Digital Thread Integration for MBSE Certificate is a private, customizable program offered by Caltech CTME. This program aims to build a working digital thread that connects requirements, SysML models, simulation, and PLM on the actual toolchain, enabling the delivery of a living digital twin.

Program Details

• Course Code: DTIMBSE-Custom
• Learners: Foundational
• Time: Client definable
• Duration: Client definable
• Program Type: Customizable Programs
• Certificate Type: Certificate
• Format: Any Format/Location
• CEU/PDU: Available
• Fees: Group Rate

Program Experience

In this 48-hour private cohort tailored to the client's toolchain, participants build a unified system model and connect it to requirements, simulation, and PLM. Using Cameo Systems Modeler with Teamwork Cloud and Collaborator, teams practice versioning/merge, validation suites, stakeholder reviews, and change/variant control.

Benefits

The program focuses on cross-tool capability, governance, and measurable impact. By the end, the team will be able to:

• Stand up a digital thread that unifies requirements, SysML models, simulation artifacts, and PLM data across the lifecycle.
• Establish end-to-end traceability with coverage and impact analyses from requirements → model → test/simulation → release.
• Design an integration pattern using open standards (e.g., ReqIF/FMI) for reliable data exchange across tools and teams.
• Define modeling standards and automate quality checks; configure validation rules/suites to enforce consistency at scale.
• Operationalize multi-user collaboration (versioning, change/variant control, stakeholder reviews) for cross-disciplinary teams.
• Implement reuse and variability management for product lines to reduce duplication and rework.
• Execute model-in-the-loop/co-simulation workflows and use results to drive design decisions.
• Produce audit-ready evidence for compliance and assurance (V&V, safety/reliability) from connected artifacts.
• Build a rollout plan (training, change management, metrics) tracking time-to-productivity and defect-rework reduction.

Topics

Instruction and labs are mapped to the client's stack. The curriculum is tailored per engagement and includes:

Digital Thread Overview & Methods

• Thread patterns across requirements ↔ SysML ↔ simulation ↔ PLM; interface contracts and data stewardship

Collaboration & Governance (Cameo family)

• Teamwork Cloud (TWC) & Cameo Collaborator: multi-user modeling, role-based reviews, version/merge workflows
• Model libraries, viewpoints & stereotypes: reusable patterns and view configurations
• Macros & plug-ins: automation for ETL, standards enforcement, and reporting
• Validation suites: prebuilt/custom rules, constraint elements, active validation

Metamodeling & Profiles

• Integration schema, stereotypes, constraints, and conformance

Requirements Integration

• IBM DOORS Next / Jama Connect: one- and two-way synchronization with SysML models
• Gap, coverage, and impact analyses aligned to requirements structures

Simulation & Co-Simulation

• MATLAB/Simulink + FMI/FMUs: parametric and behavioral co-simulation with SysML models
• Modelica: physics-based modeling across electro-mechanical and thermal domains

PLM & Product Line Engineering

• Teamcenter / 3DEXPERIENCE: SysML–PLM handoff, change and variant control
• Zuken: bill of materials (BOM) and variant information management
• PLE plug-ins: option/variant management for product families

Architecture & Compliance

• UAF/NAF alignment: enterprise and defense architecture views linked to system models
• MOSA / open-systems practices
• Safety & Reliability: FMEA, hazard analysis, FTA integrated with system models

Metrics & Reporting

• Model-based KPIs: requirements coverage, validation status, change/merge churn, review throughput, variant/config status

SysML Roadmap

• SysML v1 → v2 transition readiness: migration patterns, execution implications, and toolchain impacts

Who Should Attend

This certificate is designed for organizations deploying or maturing MBSE and digital thread practices across complex programs. It serves engineering leaders who must govern the toolchain and practitioners who will build and sustain it day-to-day. Participants should be comfortable with MBSE concepts and basic SysML modeling; familiarity with requirements tools and simulation helps accelerate labs.

Typical Roles

• Systems, requirements, test, V&V, software, hardware, safety/reliability, controls, mechanical, and electrical engineers
• Product and project managers
• Configuration management specialists
• MBSE practitioners and technologists

FAQ

• How is this different from vendor training? We go beyond tool operation to connect your end-to-end workflow—requirements, SysML, simulation, and PLM—so teams leave with an enterprise-ready integration pattern.
• Can you tailor to our stack? Yes. We configure labs for your environment (e.g., Cameo, DOORS Next/Jama, MATLAB/Simulink, Modelica, Teamcenter/3DEXPERIENCE, Zuken) and align to your governance standards.
• What’s the format and cohort size? Private cohort for one organization; ideal class size is 15–25. Delivery can be on-site, online live, or hybrid.
• How long is the program? 48 hours of instruction and hands-on labs. We can schedule as consecutive days or distributed sessions (e.g., over 4–6 weeks).
• What are the prerequisites? Comfort with MBSE and basic SysML modeling is expected. Exposure to requirements tools and simulation is helpful. Optional pre-course refreshers are available.
• Do you supply software? We’re an educational partner with Dassault Systèmes and can provide Cameo Systems Modeler/Catia Magic Systems of Systems education licenses for instructional use when needed.
• How is work assessed and how is the certificate awarded? Participants complete practical lab artifacts connected by a working digital thread. A Caltech CTME certificate is awarded upon successful completion.
• What about security and IP? No proprietary data is required. We can operate under an NDA and use sanitized or synthetic datasets aligned to your domain.
• Is SysML v2 covered? Yes—readiness, migration patterns, and implications for your toolchain are included; deeper v2 modules can be added by request.

Instructors

• Michael Brenner: Systems Engineering, Model-Based Engineering (MBSE), Aerospace Project Management
• Kenneth Lo: Systems Engineering, MBSE