Asset Administration Shell-Based OCL Validation Framework for Model-Based System Engineering
For systems engineers, it addresses the gap of managing OCL constraints across separate tools, but the demonstration is limited to a fictional scenario.
The paper proposes an Asset Administration Shell-based framework to manage OCL constraints and validation results in MBSE, reducing manual effort. The approach is demonstrated through a fictional scenario with publicly available artifacts.
Increasing complexity of modern enterprise systems and the demand for automation and interoperability require consistent and semantically validated models in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). The Object Constraint Language (OCL) supports formal definition of such constraint validations. However, MBSE models and OCL constraints are typically managed in separate tools, causing manual effort during model constraint application and result interpretation. To address this gap, this paper proposes an approach to managing OCL constraints and their validation results through Asset Administration Shells (a well-established technology for interoperability in enterprise systems). The methodology is demonstrated through a fictional industrial scenario, and to support reproducibility, all artifacts are publicly available in a GitHub repository.