Architecture and Integration Requirements for an ULCE (Unified Life Cycle Engineering) Design Environment.
Abstract
The goal of Unified Life Cycle Engineering is to develop an advanced design environment that allows considerations of producibility and supportability to be integrated into the design process in a timely fashion, i.e., early in the design process, along with the usual considerations of performance, cost, and schedule. This paper reports the results of a study to develop the needed architecture for a design process that would implement Unified Life Cycle Engineering (ULCE) and analyze the problems of assimilation, interpretation, and integration of diverse data bases and analytical tools. The developed architecture addresses multiple levels of subsystem hierarchy and incorporates concurrency in the consideration of factors related to producibility, supportability, performance, cost, and schedule in the design process. Requirements and specifications for an executive and a control system to implement an ULCE architecture are developed and trends in research relevant to integration problems that will impact ULCE systems development are identified. Keywords: Trade-offs; Computer aided engineering.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA194516
Entities
People
- David Dierolf
- David J. Owen
- Karen J. Richter
- Molly L. Brei
- William E. Cralley
Organizations
- Institute for Defense Analyses