# Digital Availability of Product Information for Collaborative Engineering of Spacecraft

## TL;DR

This paper presents a system that enables direct, machine-readable access to manufacturer product information within MBSE tools, improving data consistency and communication in spacecraft design.

## Contribution

The paper introduces a prototype system that bridges the gap between manufacturer data and MBSE tools, facilitating better collaboration in spacecraft engineering.

## Key findings

- Manufacturer data often mismatches MBSE requirements
- Current data is not machine-readable
- Prototype improves data integration in spacecraft design

## Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a system to collect product information from manufacturers and make it available in tools that are used for concurrent design of spacecraft. The planning of a spacecraft needs experts from different disciplines, like propulsion, power, and thermal. Since these different disciplines rely on each other there is a high need for communication between them, which is often realized by a Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) process and corresponding tools. We show by comparison that the product information provided by manufacturers often does not match the information needed by MBSE tools on a syntactic or semantic level. The information from manufacturers is also currently not available in machine-readable formats. Afterwards, we present a prototype of a system that makes product information from manufacturers directly available in MBSE tools, in a machine-readable way.