CONCURRENT CONCEPTUAL DESIGN SEQUENCING FOR MBSE OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS THROUGH DESIGN STRUCTURE MATRICES

Whilst Concurrent Conceptual Design (CCD) has been performed for many years at facilities such as: the Concurrent Design Facility at ESA and the Project Design Center at JPL-NASA, the sequencing know-how resides in their communities of practice. This paper strives to explain how a sequencing algorithm based on Design Structure Matrices can be used as an instrument to facilitate the interaction between disciplines during CCD studies for Model-Based systems exemplified with two case studies.