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Heavy equipment digital thread

Model-based systems engineering for heavy equipment

Growing design complexity and customization multiply potential integration problems. With MBSE, heavy equipment manufacturers can eliminate those concerns while improving efficiency and reducing risk. Work systematically and promote collaboration between all stakeholders, including suppliers.

Eliminate risks while remaining compliant with MBSE

A global mandate for sustainability calls for equipment innovation and electrification, which also increases product complexity. To keep up during development, manufacturers must promote dynamic collaboration between all stakeholders, including suppliers. When adopting an MBSE approach, everyone is integrated within a single environment, fully focused on the common goals.

Optimize your development and execution

Foster an environment where a defined architecture leads to informed decisions to improve product reliability and drive better efficiencies throughout the organization. Take control of your heavy equipment design process with fully integrated solutions.

20-40%

Incremental savings

Once companies move to become Model-Based Enterprises (MBE), they see an additional 20-40% savings, resulting in total savings between 70 and 80%. (Deloitte)

4x

Gain a competitive edge

Industrials that put more effort into digital are four times more likely to outperform the competition. (Bain and Company)

>40%

OEMs with cloud technology

Portion of acquisitions by machinery OEMs that have distinct capabilities in software or cloud technology; up from less than 20% 10 years ago. (Bain and Company)

Innovate Systems Engineering

Integrate domains and suppliers with MBSE

Efficiently and securely integrate domains and suppliers while eliminating the risk of discovering problems late in the process.

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Align all equipment development stakeholders on the common goals with an integrated product architecture. Define how a variety of subsystems will interact with each other. Easily recover sub-system model descriptions from earlier development programs or from suppliers.

With multi-domain product development you can:

  • Integrate all stakeholders from the start
  • Improve requirement quality
  • Manage traceable requirements from bid to build
Heavy equipment OEMs

Improve production with MBSE

New design ideas

Once started, supplier collaboration can evolve almost imperceptibly into supplier innovation, where joint efforts to refine a component may lead to the generation of entirely new design ideas. (McKinsey & Company)

Full traceability

A collaborative environment mitigates cost and schedule impacts by helping stakeholders fully understand the consequences of changes by providing full traceability across domains and all elements of a system. (Deloitte)

Competitive advantage

Disruptors already know the benefits of model-based enterprise (MBE) capabilities. They’re unconstrained by legacy thinking, processes, and systems and have adopted a fully model-based approach. (Deloitte)

In many cases, stakeholders understand system decomposition differently due to their siloed perspectives, resulting in unnecessary confusion and conflicts that can be mitigated if the synthesis of the system is captured in an authoritative location with traceable rationales.
Digital Collaborative Environments Paper, 2022 Publication, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Model based system engineering

Integrate architecture and system-of-systems design

Discover the key elements to take the next step in your digitalization journey by embracing an MBSE approach for heavy equipment product development. Work systematically and requirements-driven on complex products that are increasingly connected to their environment, streamline collaboration with partners and suppliers, improve overall quality and sustainability, and ultimately reduce risk.

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