crystal: seamless life-cycle collaboration for safety-critical systems engineering
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CRYSTAL Seamless Life-Cycle Collaboration for Safety-Critical Systems Engineering
R.H. Ekkel Healthcare domain leader, Philips HealthTech In cooperation with Christian El Salloum, project coordinator, AVL List GmbH
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Philips HealthTech
Rob Ekkel, manager external partnerships, IGT R&D Philips HealthTech focus on improving people’s lives through meaningful innovations. The BIU Image Guided Therapy will help our customers to decide, guide and confirm the right therapy for each patient in real time.
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X-Ray system in a hospital for cardio-vascular or oncology therapy
Crystal and IoT
Crystal focus on interoperability between system development tooling
The goal of Crystal is to come to a standard for tool interoperability commonality with IoT: the way of working to come to an interoperability standard
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Today’s situation at industrial companies
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Tool Layer
• Impact on quality and safety
• High maintenance costs
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• Fragmented IT
• High manual effort to handle data
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Industrial
Workflows
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The tool-integration problem
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Point-to-point Integrations don’t scale
Monocultures lock you in
Maintenance, management, and change costs go up over time
Creating new integrations is unpredictable
Ongoing and unexpected costs drain resources
Past choices restrict present
action and future vision
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The CRYSTAL Vision
Enable New
Engineering
Methods
Open
Integration
Platform
• Based on
Standardized
Interoperability
Specification
• Connect tools
to expose &
link data
Users get
better ways
of working
Industrial
Workflows
Tool Layer
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CRYSTAL has the critical mass to generate impact
68 partners from 10 countries
€82M budget
European key players from different industrial domains
Large companies developing embedded systems act as technology users and case providers
Large tool providers, SMEs and researchers as technology providers
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Standardize tool interaction, but not a tool’s capabilities!
Separate data from tool functions
Apply Interoperability Specification (IOS) as the central standard
Build on existing successful standards where appropriate
Technical Approach
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CRYSTAL Interoperability Specification A Layered and Modular Architecture
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Interoperability Challenges
Full traceability of all involved artifacts ◦ e.g., elements of heterogeneous models, configurations,
parameters, requirements and test cases on system level and component level …
Seamless collaboration between integrated tools to enable efficient engineering methods ◦ e.g., change impact analysis, trade-off analysis via heterogeneous
co-simulation, re-use across different development stages …
Consistency management, version management, variant management and change history management ◦ … for distributed and loosely coupled tool chains (e.g., interlinked
via OSLC)
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CP-SETIS (Research & Innovation action proposal) A cross-project approach towards standardization Started in March 2015; build IOS catalogue in WP4 Scope: IO for engineering tool sustainable structure for maintaining standards over projects. Is open for extension of standards to IoT Think from the beginning on sustainability. Transfer IOS to standardization bodies after the project. Develop a sustainability structure.
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CRYSTAL Interoperability Specification (IOS) ◦ Open specification ◦ Enables seamless integration of tools and full traceability across the
product life cycle
CRYSTAL IOS compliant Technology Bricks ◦ Engineering Tools ◦ Services ◦ Methodologies
Platform Builder for specifying, implementing, instantiating, tailoring, deploying, and maintaining System Engineering Environment
CRYSTAL Use-Cases as reference scenarios ◦ Demonstrators with high level of maturity
Outcomes
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Improved system development ◦ Lower cost, time, risk ◦ Less rework ◦ Higher Quality
Increased flexibility for OEMs ◦ No vendor-lock-in
New market opportunities for technology providers ◦ Facilitate innovation and market entry
Openness as an opportunity for all
Envisioned Impact
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