Model Based Systems Engineering for System Safety: An Introduction

Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) has gained momentum as the predominant method of analyzing and deriving system requirements as well as verifying and validating system performance. Over the years, several frameworks have gained prominence as approved methods and formal techniques to model systems. MBSE technology continues to gain popularity and growth within the Systems Engineering domain, especially in the markets of complex systems. To remain relevant within the context of concurrent engineering, it is advantageous for system safety engineer to learn how these techniques are affecting system design so that safety is addressed within system development. This paper provides an overview of MBSE in theory and practice and provides high-level details on how the system safety engineer can utilize these methods to provide the most optimum impact for affecting safety design.