Grasp Consulting continues to deliver Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) expertise to its clients. It is currently supporting a large defence company in the application and development of a federated model to drive the integration of its most complex systems for a large maritime capability.

The benefits of employing a model in this manner is to improve the integration, decision making and analysis of the maritime capability as each part of the system is constructed, integrated and delivered. The model aims to capture, visualise and manage the design and interfaces as complexity increases.

The customer has recognised this activity as key to managing areas of design with high levels of integration risk, allowing them to be modelled and explored by all stakeholders whether they are high level business leaders, software developers or system users.

April 2019

Grasp Consulting has continued to expand its cross domain experience with an entry into the rail industry - in what can be seen as a key win for the company. Our personnel are helping to develop and manage the requirements and test database for a traffic management software tool to manage capacity and programming across parts of the UK’s South East rail network. It is important that this software is successfully delivered as part of the increased adoption of digital technologies to the UK rail industry to meet the increasing passenger demand expected over the next 15 years. This is a new market for the company and provides a real opportunity for us to apply our Systems Engineering expertise from other domains whilst also developing our capabilities within the specific complexities of the UK rail operating environment.

Grasp Consulting today publishes its 8 Key Strategies You Need to Know for Successfully Adopting Model Based Systems Engineering. We have provided this infographic based on our cross industry insight of the MBSE challenges that we face today. These strategies were initially presented by Grasp Consulting to the Bristol INCOSE Local Group in February 2018 and have now been summarised in this infographic.

INCOSE is the International Council on Systems Engineering, dedicated to the advancement of the discipline across industries.

Find out more about how Grasp Consulting can help your organisation apply Model Based Systems Engineering here.

This week Grasp Consulting attended an interesting event around the latest developments in the NATO Architecture Framework (NAF) at a Bristol INCOSE event at Atkins, Bristol. The latest in the evolution of the framework was discussed including its impact on the current engineering activities of the industry and the likely future direction of the methodology. 

NAF provides a standard way to model an architecture and has its roots in TOGAF and MODAF. The industry is increasingly moving towards adopting more of this standard and it is likely to have a real impact on the architecture development work across organisations into the future.

Find out more about how Grasp Consulting can help your organisation understand, apply and benefit from architecture design here.

Grasp Consulting will be attending the event in April to engage with the leading engineering organisations and discuss their opportunities. Grasp Consulting is eager to expand its offering throughout the industry and this represents a important event to do so.

The events are run bi-annually in London and Bristol.  The EXPO gives attendees the fantastic opportunity to network and meet with representatives from across industry.