Open source software like Capella comes with advantages like the easy way to extend or customize it and drawbacks including support to users especially when they are working in a collaborative way. This presentation will share how Capella has been deployed in Framatome so that systems engineer/architect do not care much about technical issues but remain focus on their business. Furthermore, in a context where many companies have their data described in excel files, XLS Pivot (part our MBSE Suite tool), is a generic MBSE solution developed by Framatome on top of Capella to help users to exchange data from Excel to Capella and vice versa. This presentation will show XLS Pivot in action. Valéry Teguiak, Framatome Valéry Teguiak works as R&D Engineer Consultant at Framatome where he leads software engineering projects on top of Capella. He is a software engineer and obtained a PhD from the ISAE-ENSMA for his work on Data Engineering and Metamodeling-based Solution.

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CAPELLA DEPLOYMENT
a feedback from Framatome
16/09/2019
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Agenda
I. INTRODUCTION
II. INDUSTRIALIZATION
III. XLS Pivot
IV. CONCLUSION

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Framatome
 14 000 employees working on more than 250 reactors worldwide
at 53 locations in 20 countries
Argentina
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
Czech Republic
Hungary
Japan
Russia
Slovakia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Germany
4 sites
China
8 sites
USA
8 sites
France
17 sites
Others
locations
I. Introduction
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion
 For 60 years, Framatome's teams
have been involved in developing
safe and competitive nuclear
power worldwide

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Context I. Introduction
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion
OPEN SOURCE
1. Free license
2. IT Support is not included
3. Extensible software
STANDALONE
1. Application that is not part of a bundle
2. Installation is not required
3. Application not supervised by the IT
Capella is…

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Capella “Installation” I. Introduction
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion
INTERNET
1. Download a version of from POLARSYS web site
2. Unzip in a folder
3. Launch Capella
INTRANET
1. Download a version of from intranet location or colleagues
2. Unzip in a folder
3. Launch Capella
Download from…
 What about massive deployment?
 How to manage version efficiently?
ManualActivity

6. INDUSTRIALIZATION
Towards a centralized
management of Capella

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Definition I. About
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion
Industrialization is a method to…
[Minich et al.2009]
 Automate manual tasks
 Increase efficiency and quality
 Reduce cost
 Implement standardized and high productive methods

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Organization
BU1 BU2 BUn
…
IS Department
IT
Modeling & Data Integration
1st L-Support
…
Systems Engineer focus on business…
I. About
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion
2nd L-Support

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Upgrading
1.2.1
(Jun.18)
Jan.18 Mar.18 Feb.19 Sep.19
1.3.1
(May19)
1.0.2
1.1.3
(version)
(time)
1.4.1
(???)
???.20
Under control…
I. About
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion

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Environments I. About
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion
Two Capella, Two goals…
UAT
 For key users
 To validate new features
 Manage sand box projects
PROD
 For (key) users
 Consume validated features
 Manage real word projects

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Packing and Deployment I. About
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion
1st L-Support handles…
DEPLOYMENT
1. The User send an installation request with to 1st L-Support
2. The 1st L-Support use the package to deploy Capella for the user
3. A shortcut to launch Capella is created on the user’s desktop
PACKAGING
1. 1st L-Support download a version a Capella from POLARSYS web site
2. 1st L-Support creates a package to deploy Capella for the key users
3. 1st L-Support creates a package to deploy Capella for the user

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Releases Management I. About
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion
Auto-update at startup…
Local repository: C:PrLegacyCapella1.2.1
Remote repository
Install/Update/Uninstall

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Data Management I. About
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion
CAPELLA MIGRATION
1. Installation of the new version Capella
2. Synchronization with users to commit and migrate projects
3. Uninstallation of the old version of Capella
Helps to manage…
VERSIONING
1. Share project a server
2. Project available for collaborative work
3. Rescue approach if your computer fails

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Add-Ons I. About
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion
Most deployed…

15. XLS PIVOT
a generic approach for data
exchange between Capella and Excel

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import
export
Context I. About
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion
Data exchange…

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Operations
 Create
 Read
 Update
 Delete
Reporting
 Explain operations
 Errors Management
Constraints
 Name Conflict
 Text-based
Requirements I. About
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion
We need, We expect…

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Model-Based Solution I. About
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion
Implements a generic approach…
EXCEL
 is just an import/export format
 no VBA script in Excel files
CAPELLA
 instead of developing importer/exporter for each type of object
 to minimize effort to adapt XLS Pivot when Capella model change
 import/export template file generated on the fly by the user

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Preference Model
To enable/disable…
I. About
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion
CLASS
 To import/export instead of enabling all Capella classes
 To include for import/export of object of another class

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LogicalFunction
id: STRING
name: STRING
 Attribute: STRING, INTEGER, etc.
 Simple EReference: ENUM
LogicalFunction status: ENUM
Basic Property I. About
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion
For Excel file
 Auto-generation of Simple EReference

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LogicalFunctionPkg
LogicalFunction
User Experience (1,2) vs Legacy Implementation (3)
parent
LogicalFunction
ownedLogicalFunctions
parent
1
2
3
Reverse EReference I. About
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion
For Excel file
 How to identify the class referenced by the parent property?

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LogicalActor
User Experience (1,2) vs Legacy Implementation (3,4,5)
LogicalComponent
LogicalFunction
3
FunctionalAllocation 5
4
allocatedTo
allocatedTo
2
1
Traceable EReference I. About
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion
For Excel file
 How to identify the class referenced by allocatedTo property?

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User Experience (1) vs Legacy Implementation (2)
LogicalFunction LogicalFunction
1
2
subFunctions
Forbidden…
to avoid overlapping with Reverse EReference
subFunctions
Collection EReference (1:n) I. About
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion

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Semantics I. About
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion
Boundary objects
<Owner_Name>[<Boundary_Object_Name>]
Objects with the same name
<Object_Name>@<Object_Id>
Useful for disambiguation…

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Reporting I. About
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion
What was done…

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Demo I. About
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion
XLS Pivot in action…

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License
Planned to become…
I. About
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion

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Perspectives I. About
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion
BACKLOG
 GUI for Preference Model
 Alias Model for more user-friendly property name
 Highlight updated values in the reporting
 Allow user to define order for selected properties
 Performance issues
Let’s look forward…

29. CONCLUSION

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Recommandations I. About
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion
COMMUNITY
System and Software Engineers together, the way to go!
We may suggest…

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MBSE Suite (Extra) I. About
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion
IS Dpt. and Business together…
 xRule
 Capella2Cradle
 Project2Library
 RenameProject

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Bibliography I. About
II. Industrialization
III. XLS Pivot
IV. Conclusion

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Thank you!