IncQuery Suite at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

A well-known and pioneering engineering research organization, NASA JPL's main profile is designing and manufacturing robotic spacecraft to explore the Solar System. 
IncQuery Labs is proud to help them on their engineering journey to dare mighty things.  

Computer Aided

Engineering

The Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) divison of NASA JPL is one of the leading groups of experts with the vision to connect systems engineers with other domain experts, so that they can develop missions and systems using an open portfolio of tools in a shared environment. The mission is to increase efficiency by promoting seamless tool integration, 
‍decreasing redundancy and providing consistent information-paths along the complete digital thread.
Today, the Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) group of NASA JPL is one of the leading group of experts and engineers with the vision to connect systems engineers with other domain experts to develop missions and systems using an open portfolio of tools in a shared environment. Their ultimate goal is to increase efficiency by promoting seamless tool integration, decreasing information redundancy and providing consistent information-paths along the complete digital thread.

The CAE Systems Environment

NASA JPL has many separately running ecosystems: a multitude of engineering tools are deployed in toolchains, for various aspects of systems design, validation, and documentation management, and many others.
But these are often closed ecosystems, so tools from different vendors don’t work together seamlessly.
Such a lock-in can make it challenging to reuse assets or migrate between vendors. These are all crucial to large scale and cross-domain systems engineering.
OpenMBEE was initiated to address this tool integration challenge. As a software framework, it enables engineers to work in the language of their choice and easily share and document their work across other tools. As a community, it is an open ecosystem of various tools, solutions and vendors, fostering collaboration and interoperability. IncQuery Labs is proud to be participating in this joint effort, and therefore IncQuery Suite comes with full OpenMBEE support.

IncQuery Suite at NASA JPL

NASA JPL are one of the first large-scale users of the IncQuery Suite. Starting from 2019, JPL has used the IncQuery Suite in several ways, including the automated validation of SysML models, graph-like visualization of engineering data in combination with third party libraries, requirements analysis using OSLC and SPARQL, all taking advantage of the IncQuery Suite’s easy-to-use integration capabilities with the Jupyter ecosystem.
The IncQuery Server is a perfect fit into the open architecture of OpenMBEE as a central engineering data integration and quality analysis platform. With its high-performance connector to MMS, OpenMBEE’s repository, a wide range of engineering data such as SysML models authored in Cameo, requirements captured in DOORS, or other documents published in the View Editor, Jupyter notebooks and others can be efficiently processed, validated and queried using scalable graph or full-text queries.

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