About the Author

Tim Weilkiens is a member of the executive board of the German consulting company oose, a consultant and trainer, a lecturer of master courses, a publisher, a book author, and an active member of the OMG and INCOSE community. Tim has written sections of the initial SysML specification and is still active in the ongoing work on SysML v1, as well as the next generation SysML v2. He is involved in many MBSE activities and you can meet him at numerous conferences on MBSE and its related topics. As a consultant, he has advised a lot of companies from different domains.

The insights he gains into the challenges that they face are one part of his extensive experience that he shares in his books and presentations. Tim has written many books about modeling, including Systems Engineering with SysML (Morgan Kaufmann, 2008) and Model-Based System Architecture (Wiley, 2015). He is the editor of the pragmatic and independent MBSE methodology, SYSMOD, that is, the Systems Modeling Toolbox.