Modeling with MBSE
This section introduces the key concepts of modeling as well as the spoken language that will be used throughout the rest of this book – the Systems Modeling Language, or SysML, as it is commonly known.
It is important to understand exactly what is meant by modeling and also why modeling is needed in the first place.
It is also very important to understand exactly what SysML is and what it is not, as there are many misconceptions associated with SysML and much confusion about how it fits in with the whole of MBSE. Indeed, one of the most common misconceptions is that SysML is actually the same as MBSE!
Before the main discussion begins, it should be pointed out that there are many different types of modeling, as discussed previously in this book. For the purposes of the discussion in this chapter and for the remainder of the book, when the term modeling is used, it is referring to visual modeling, which means that diagrams are being used as a basis for the spoken...
