Exhaustiveness of Systems Structures in Model-based Systems Engineering for Mechatronic Systems

The increasing complexity of mechatronic systems results in a challenging development process. In an interdisciplinary design environment, the communication and cooperation between the disciplines is necessary to establish a basis for efficient and effective product development. The approach of MBSE focuses on this aspect by means of an abstract description of the system structure. The system structure is created and read by different persons. It is crucial that these semi-formal models, considered by very different stakeholders, are build up comparably and exhaustively. Nowadays there is no way to check the model of exhaustiveness. We classified model elements and derived modeling guidelines enabling the model-user to create comparable and exhaustive system structures.