An MBSE-based approach for the analysis of requirements towards engineering IT architectures

Products are currently changing since various drivers increase complexity, e.g. digitalization. This does not only apply to systems, but also to engineering itself with its processes, methodologies and tools. On the one hand, approaches like Model-Based Systems Engineering or virtual verification and validation demonstrate that digitalization has the effect of demanding computer-interpretable and continuous sets of information. On the other hand, the approaches themselves require new functionalities regarding the engineering IT and thus raise new requirements. This paper presents a systematic approach to identify and analyze the requirements towards an engineering IT architecture. The approach is model-based and comes with modeling guidance and a meta-model to support the analysis.