Model-based systems engineering
Accelerate model-based systems engineering (MBSE) maturity by implementing traceable verification and validation processes in a collaborative multidisciplinary design optimization framework.
Unify architecture models and simulation
Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) is essential for managing system complexity, yet many organizations struggle to unlock its full value. As teams adopt broader model-based engineering initiatives, system architecture models often remain isolated from simulation analysis and validation workflows, creating gaps in traceability and delaying decision-making.
Our MBSE plugin technology bridges this divide by allowing cross-functional engineering teams to link SysML models and simulation solvers within an automated multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) framework. Transition from disconnected tools to a scalable, traceable digital engineering environment that enables MBSE-driven validation across complex, regulated industries.
What is model-based systems engineering?
Systems engineering is a transdisciplinary and integrated approach that guides the successful realization, use, and retirement of engineered systems by combining scientific, technological, and management principles.
According to the INCOSE Vision 2035, “the future of systems engineering is model-based, leveraging next generation modeling, simulation, and visualization environments powered by the global digital transformation, to specify, analyze, design, and verify systems. High fidelity models, advanced visualization, and highly integrated, multi-disciplinary simulations will allow systems engineers to evaluate and assess an order of magnitude more alternative designs more quickly and thoroughly than can be done on a single design today”.
Connect SysML models to engineering simulation analysis
The MBSE plugin for VOLTA links Cameo Systems Modeler (SysML) directly to simulation analysis in the VOLTA digital engineering platform — mapping value properties to parameters in simulation run configurations.
Users can request simulation runs from Cameo, import simulation results back into system models, and trace the impact of requirement changes on corresponding analysis. The plugin provides visualization through instance tables, supporting detailed traceability and shared accountability between system engineers, CAE engineers and method developers.
- Map Cameo elements directly to simulation models.
- Run simulation using CAE models.
- Simulation results flow back to Cameo for traceability.
Scale MBSE with the VOLTA digital engineering platform
Built on open, public REST APIs, our MBSE technology enables full end-to-end traceability of models, simulation runs, and design decisions — unlocking a living digital thread from concept to validation.
- Centralize model versions, simulation data, and metadata within a secure, governed web environment.
- Maintain an Authoritative Source of Truth (ASOT) seamlessly across system models and engineering disciplines.
- Integrate MBSE with PLM, ALM, and other digital engineering systems with public REST APIs.
Automate end-to-end verification and validation across tools
Every requirement, model element, and simulation result is automatically tracked and versioned. This allows engineering teams to generate evidence for compliance and confidently validate complex systems across domains.
- Auto-link SysML elements to test cases, inputs, and results.
- Generate audit-ready reports with minimal manual effort.
- Ensure regulatory compliance with built-in traceability designed to support safety-critical standards like ISO 26262, DO-178C, FDA 21 CFR Part 820 U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) directives.
Scale and democratize MDO workflows with VOLTA
Learn moreFrom requirements to simulation results: achieving traceable V&V with MBSE plugin for VOLTA
Key challenges in model-based systems engineering
Verification from multiple resources
System verification requires diverse engineering tools across disciplines.
Ensuring reproducibility through data traceability
Mismatched solver settings and outdated models frequently lead to invalid simulation results.
Coordinating stakeholder verification
Silored workflows separate systems engineers (requirements), CAE analysts (models), and method developers (simulation workflows).
Linking simulation and system models
Simulation and SysML remain disconnected, preventing an understanding of system performance.
Bridging MBSE and simulation in aircraft design development
Benefits of model-based systems engineering integrated with simulation
Our MBSE plugin technology bridges the critical gap between SysML models and simulation workflows — enabling fast, traceable, and compliant engineering. This lightweight integration turns system architecture into a living, validated digital thread — without overhauling existing tools or delaying project schedules.
Close the loop with simulation
Connect SysML elements directly to simulation workflows to automatically verify requirements, detect issues earlier, and ensure every design decision is backed by real-world performance data.
Accelerate verification & validation (V&V)
Trigger simulation runs directly from your system model to verify design intent early and often — reducing rework, speeding up development, and tightening the feedback loop between architecture and analysis.
Simplify compliance and traceability
Automatically link requirements, model elements, simulation results, and test cases, to build a complete, versioned record for regulatory compliance and internal reviews.
Integrate across the digital thread
Leverage open APIs and pre-built connectors for digital thread platforms — such as Intercax Syndeia and SBE Vision — to easily incorporate additional simulation tools and data sources into existing workflows.
Bridging MBSE and simulation in aircraft design development
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to questions you may have.
MBSE is a lifecycle approach that applies models to requirements, design, analysis, and verification and validation (V&V).
ESTECO’s capability focuses on simulation-enabled MBSE: linking Cameo system models and requirements to VOLTA-managed simulation workflows, data and design exploration. It isn’t a replacement for a full system-model, but rather an integration layer that connects system architecture to simulation.
The MBSE plugin links Cameo system models directly to simulation workflows managed in VOLTA.
A complete implementation handles component integration handles , APIs, authentication, object mapping, workflow invocation, data exchange, execution infrastructure and the result-writeback mechanism.
A typical workflow maps a requirement or verification case to simulation inputs, executes an approved analysis configuration, evaluates the output against a defined acceptance criterion and records the evidence and status.
Yes. SysML models and simulation solvers can be linked into automated MDO workflows to execute analyses and return the results directly to the system model.
While tools like Cameo Simulation Toolkit execute system behaviors and parametric analyses within the Cameo environment, ESTECO focuses on connecting the system model to external, multidisciplinary and higher-fidelity simulation workflows, SPDM and MDO.
End notes and attributions
Cameo Systems Modeler is a trademark or registered trademark of Dassault Systèmes, a French “société europèenne” (Versailles Commercial Register # B 322 306 440), or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries.
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