Technical Model Viewpoint Generation for Stakeholder-Specific Data Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current model-based solutions for data packaging and exchange in systems engineering do not allow for tailored viewpoints of technical models to meet the specific needs and backgrounds of different stakeholders, leading to unnecessary data exposure and inefficient data access.
Innovation Solution
A method is provided where technical models are stored in a network-accessible repository with descriptive and functional metadata, allowing stakeholders to request and receive customized specification packages containing relevant model views based on their attributes, ensuring secure access to only necessary data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a complete technical model is distributed to all stakeholders, then all stakeholders have access to all data, but stakeholders receive unnecessary data and experience data exposure beyond their needs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complete technical model into multiple viewpoint packages, each tailored to specific stakeholder roles and needs. The system divides the monolithic data structure into role-specific subsets, allowing stakeholders to receive only the data relevant to their function rather than the entire model.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by customizing the data content according to specific stakeholder characteristics. Each stakeholder receives a viewpoint package with data quality and detail level appropriate to their role, ensuring that the data is locally optimized for each user group rather than uniformly distributed.
2Ease of operation
If a complete technical model is distributed to all stakeholders, then all stakeholders have access to all data, but the system complexity increases and efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary action by pre-packaging the technical model data into viewpoint-specific packages before distribution. The system anticipates stakeholder needs and prepares customized data bundles in advance, so that when stakeholders receive the data, it is already organized and filtered for their specific requirements, eliminating the need for post-receipt processing.
3Loss of information
If heterogeneous models from multidisciplinary environments are exchanged, then comprehensive technical information is shared, but data interoperability challenges arise
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by creating a viewpoint package format that can accommodate multiple heterogeneous model types from different disciplines. The system uses a universal packaging structure that can contain diverse technical models while presenting them in a consistent, role-appropriate manner, allowing the same package format to serve multiple disciplinary needs.
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AI summary
A method includes storing technical models in a network-accessible model repository. Each technical model is labeled with descriptive metadata and comprises one or more model views labeled with functional metadata. A request is received from a stakeholder device, the request specifying descriptive attributes and functional attributes applied to an associated stakeholder. Technical model(s) are retrieved based on the descriptive metadata labelling the retrieved technical models being determined to satisfy the descriptive attributes included in the request. For each retrieved technical model, one or more model views are compiled based on the functional metadata labelling the compiled model view being determined to satisfy the functional attributes included in the request. The stakeholder device is provided secure access to a specification package that comprises one or more viewpoints for the retrieved technical model(s), each viewpoint comprising one or more of the compiled model views for each of the retrieved technical models.