Fishbone Model for System Engineering Design Verification

The patent replaces text-based manual documentation with model-based automated generation. Models serve as the new foundation, automatically generating documentation, requirements, and design artifacts, thereby eliminating the time-consuming and error-prone manual text processing while ensuring data consistency through the single source of truth principle.

The patent creates multiple views and artifacts by copying from a unified model rather than manually creating separate documents. This allows consistent replication of system information across different documentation types without the time and error costs of manual text-based documentation.

The patent segments the complex model-based systems engineering methodology into a simplified fishbone diagram approach. This breaks down the system into causal relationships that can be easily visualized and understood, reducing syntax complexity while maintaining the benefits of model-based engineering for communication and knowledge acquisition.

Instead of starting with complex formal models and generating diagrams from them, the patent inverts the approach by starting with simple fishbone diagrams and automatically generating the underlying models. This reverses the traditional flow, making the entry point much simpler while still achieving model-based engineering benefits.

The patent introduces fishbone diagrams as an intermediary between simple visual understanding and complex formal models. These diagrams serve as a mediator that captures causal relationships in an intuitive format, which then automatically translates into comprehensive models, eliminating the confusion of direct complex syntax while maintaining system reliability.

The patent performs preliminary analysis and model construction through the fishbone diagram phase before generating the final comprehensive models. This preliminary action simplifies the complex modeling process by first establishing causal relationships in an intuitive format, making the subsequent model generation straightforward and non-chaotic.