Posted on

Role and Representation of User Requirements in Systems Engineering

We are pleased to announce the second in our a new series of white papers that will discuss the role of different types of information in systems engineering processes, and how to deploy each of them in Cradle.

The second white paper in this series discusses user requirements. It is available here:

https://www.threesl.com/downloads/download.php?version=v7.1&section=whitepapers&filename=ra00701-User_Requirements_in_Systems_Engineering.pdf

And as a short link here:

http://ow.ly/4n6nHO

Visit the Resources section of our website: www.threesl.com for this and many other useful resources!

We hope that this white paper is interesting, the next one will appear quite soon!

Posted on

Role and Representation of Needs in Systems Engineering

We are pleased to announce a new series of white papers that will discuss the role of different types of information in systems engineering processes, and how to deploy each of them in Cradle.

The first white paper in this series discusses needs. It is available here:

https://www.threesl.com/downloads/download.php?version=v7.1&section=whitepapers&filename=ra00601-Needs_in_Systems_Engineering.pdf

And as a short link here:

http://ow.ly/4mXDvY

Visit the Resources section of our website: www.threesl.com for this and many other useful resources!

We hope that this white paper is interesting, the next one will appear quite soon!

UPDATED: April 2020 – Meta data
Posted on

Using SysML in a MBSE Process in the Systems Lifecycle

3SL attended the SEC 2016 conference in Washington at the end of last month. We presented a tutorial on how SysML can be used in a MBSE process that is integrated into the rest of the systems lifecycle, including initial needs and requirements capture and following with links to test and delivery.

That presentation can be downloaded from our website here:

https://www.threesl.com/downloads/download.php?version=v7.1&section=presentations&filename=Simple_MBSE_Process_Using_SysML.pdf

and as a compressed link, here:

http://ow.ly/4mTZOq

We hope that you find this presentation helpful!

Posted on

SysML and MBSE in the Systems Lifecycle – for Executives

3SL attended the SEDC 2016 conference and presented a view of SysML and MBSE in the systems context, for executives. The essence of this presentation is that MBSE is good, SysML is one form of model and associated notations for MBSE, but these cannot be useful unless they are part of an overall process for the complete lifecycle.

The presentation is here:

https://www.threesl.com/downloads/download.php?version=v7.1&section=presentations&filename=MBSE_For_Executives.pdf

And as a short link here:

http://ow.ly/4mU2ir

Visit the Resources section of our website: www.threesl.com for this and many other useful resources!

We hope that this presentation is interesting!

Posted on

April Newsletter is Available

We are pleased to announce that our April newsletter 2016 is available here:

https://www.threesl.com/pages/news/webletter-April16/index.php

which announces the release of Cradle-7.1 that integrates SysML into the systems lifecycle!

If you have an active maintenance agreement with 3SL, you are welcome to upgrade to Cradle-7.1 at any time, but please remember that you will need a new Security Code from 3SL to use Cradle-7.1!

Posted on

Frequent Commands – A Tip

Over and over and over again

If you frequently run the same item commands, or you want to guide users to use a particular subset of commands, add them to the Cradle ‘View’. These are termed “View commands”.

When defining a Cradle Views, you can add commands to appear at the ‘Item icon’. When the view is run this enables different users to be guided to commands for their role in the project. Combined with a phase and they can, run the appropriate query and they can get straight into creating children, linked items, updating link details, or whatever is appropriate for their role. Spending a little while now, arranging the process steps for your users can give a significant gain in productivity.

Using View Commands
View Commands

For more information on creating views and view commands you may find this Cradle help article useful.

Article updated 17/09/2018 – Added link to Cradle online help
Posted on

Shippable Version of your Project

Read-only Copies of your Project

Want to ship a read-only copy of your project to a Customer or Supplier?

Making project output available as web pages
Web Publisher Output

Use Web Publisher to create a hyper-linked output of your project. This can be copied onto a pen-drive, CD, Intranet and sent to your customer. They don’t have to have Cradle to see your work on the project, just an html browser. Of course we would suggest that they get a copy of Cradle for themselves and then they load the project items and query, publish, alter and necessary, but we know that’s not always practicable.

You can limit what an end user will see by selecting various options. This could be either one item type or All the items types within the project. You can then give the hyper-linked project an owner and select a location of where the files are to be sent.

If you require any more information on Web Publisher then you can find this within our Cradle help. Please click the link.

Article updated 05/12/2018 – Added information about restricting items published
Posted on

Copy a Schema

Scenario

Having developed a schema, added item types, defined workflows, tailored categories to your process, a new project starts. The last thing you want to do is start from scratch defining the it all over again.

Solution

If you have a really useful setup that you want to reuse in a new project then simply “drag’n’drop” it in Project Manager. Log into the projects with a user with privilege to import project settings and then drag the schema from the developed project to your new project. The alternative would be to export just the project schema from your original project and then import it into the new project. Whatever you do, you don’t need to start typing and clicking to create a new project setup.

Project Manager copy schema
Copy a Project Schema

Reporting on a Project Schema

Choose the elements of the schema report most suitable
Schema Report Details

In order to see the Project Schema in a tabular form, log into the project from Project Manager and simply select the Schema in the tree. Pressing the Publish button will output this as a report. If you want finder granularity of what shows in the report open WorkBench and run the Standard Report “Project  Schema” from the Publish->Reports tab.

Article Updated: 01/06/2018 – reporting
Posted on

Multi Language Interface for Requirements Management

Requirements Management, Anforderungsverwaltung, Gestion Exigences,
요구사항 관리, Rheolaeth Anghenion, Управление требованиями, 需求管理

Cradle in many languages
Multi Language Interface

However you want to say Requirements Management you can in Cradle’s multi language UI.

Cradle is currently available in eight different languages. If yours isn’t included speak to us about your needs, or add to the translations yourself.

Message Catalogue Manager

The Message Catalogue Manager (MCM) is provided to allow customers to add their own translations or regionalisation.  See the article below.

A new feature in Cradle 7.4 allows you to export the catalogue in XLIFF format, translate it externally and then re-import it .

Article Updated: 31/05/2018 – XLIFF
Article Updated: 17/09/2018 – Fixed grammar