Introduction Capability Architect is a requirements development tool designed to support the application of the systems engineering method to complex projects. The tool provides an intuitive front-end application that allows you to add key systems engineering artefacts such as functions,
Starting Capability Architect
Connect to a database Start Capability Architect. In the opening screen (Figure 2), choose the Microsoft Access option and browse to the directory where you installed the templates. Select the ‘CA Template’ database. Press the Connect button . Inspect the
Creating Elements
We will now create some new systems engineering elements by adding additional nodes to the tree. Creating and deleting nodes is performed using a right-click context menu, shown below. Each new Capability Architect database template contains a skeleton set of
Capability Architect Model Structure
The database template for each project includes a set of example nodes that illustrate how the capability model needs to be constructed within Capability Architect. A specific set of top-level nodes are always required as the basis for any capability
Building a Simple project: Alarm System
In systems engineering it is common to model system functional behavior in order to define what a system has to be able to do. Let’s develop a few Function elements in order to create the simple alarm system behavior model