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MBSE Survey Results
Administered by Dr Robert Cloutier and Mary Bone
 Short survey sent to MBSE Workshop Participants and
INCOSE MBSE Distribution (January 16-23, 2012)
 9 questions with rating 1-5
 On-line at MBSE Wiki using Survey Monkey
 Data not attributed
 134 Respondents
 Provides a gross indicator of state of practice
 How widely MBSE is used
 How MBSE is being applied
 Perceived benefit/value of MBSE
 Obstacles to adoption
1
International Responses
 Australia,
Brazil, China, France, Germany, India,
Japan, Jordan, Malaysia, Mexico, The Netherlands,
Spain, Sweden, and U.S.A.
2
Question 2
What type(s) of industry and/or product(s) does your
company represent?
Defense
58.2%
Space Systems
31.8%
IT
29.1%
Aircraft
27.3%
Medical
13.6%
Automotive
13.6%
0.0%
10.0%
20.0%
30.0%
40.0%
50.0%
60.0%
70.0%
Question 3
How many engineers does your
company/organization employ?
more than 10,000
22.7%
1001-10,000
34.8%
101-1000
15.2%
10-100
15.9%
less than 10
11.4%
0%
less than 10
4
5%
10-100
10%
101-1000
15%
20%
1001-10,000
25%
30%
35%
40%
more than 10,000
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Question 4
To what extent in the last 3 years has your
company/organization:
Adopted MBSE on
programs/projects
3.04
Applied MBSE on
Pilots and studies
3.25
Increased MBSE
awareness
3.64
2.70
2.80
Not at All (0)
5
2.90
3.00
3.10
3.20
3.30
3.40
Somewhat/Sometimes (2)
3.50
3.60
3.70
Almost Always (4)
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Question 5
What is the relative focus of the MBSE effort in your
organization to support each of the following?
Architecture modeling
3.40
Requirements flowdown and…
3.24
Conceptual design
3.23
Detailed design and analysis
3.03
Verification planning and execution
2.84
Trade studies
2.77
Other
2.22
0.00
No Focus (0)
6
0.50
1.00
1.50
Some Focus (2)
2.00
2.50
3.00
3.50
4.00
Almost all Focus (4)
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Question 8
What is the perceived value of the modeling effort by
each of the following?
Systems
engineers
4.05
Software
engineers
3.97
Customer
3.14
Hardware
engineers
3.00
Test engineers
2.93
Project
management
2.77
0.0
0.5
No Value (1)
7
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
Some Value (2)
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
High Value (5)
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Question 9
Rank each item below in terms of the extent that it currently
inhibits successful adoption of the MBSE within your
organization/company.
Cultural and general resistance…
Other
MBSE learning curve
Availability of skills
Lack of perceived value of MBSE
Lack of management support
Method maturity
Tool maturity
MBSE training
Risk associated with the…
Availability of tools
Not an inhibitor (0)
8
0.0
3.82
3.71
3.48
3.45
3.37
3.29
3.13
3.01
2.95
2.93
2.84
1.0
2.0
3.0
4.0
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