Chapter 4: Handoff to Downstream Engineering
The purposes of the Handoff to Downstream Engineering recipes are as follows:
- To refine the system engineering data to a form that's usable by downstream engineers
- To create separate models to hold the prepared engineering data in a convenient organizational format (known as model federation)
- For each subsystem to work with downstream engineering teams to create a deployment architecture and allocate systems engineering data to that architecture
It is crucial to understand that the handoff is a process and not an event. There is a certain amount of work to do that is not entirely straightforward in order to achieve the preceding objectives. As with other activities in the Harmony MBSE process, this can be done once, but it is recommended to be implemented many times, in an iterative, incremental fashion. It isn't necessarily difficult work, but it is crucial work in terms of the project being successful....
