Towards the adoption of model-based engineering for the development of safety-critical systems in industrial practice

TL;DR

This paper discusses the challenges and potential solutions for adopting model-based engineering in the development of safety-critical systems within industrial practice, highlighting practical examples across various domains.

Contribution

It identifies key practical challenges and proposes how model-based engineering can address them in safety-critical system development.

Findings

Identified practical challenges in safety-critical systems development

Presented examples from different application domains

Suggested approaches for adopting model-based engineering

Abstract

Model-based engineering promises to boost productivity and quality of complex systems development. In the context of safety-critical systems, a traditionally highly regulated and conservative domain, the use of models gained importance in the recent years. In this paper, we present a set of practical challenges in developing safety-critical systems with the help of several examples of development projects that belong to different application domains. Following this, we show how could the adoption of model-based engineering for the development of safety-critical systems cope with these challenges.