This presentation will introduce the way Airbus has achieved a common language which is understood by humans as well as IT systems. The common language is achieved by using the fundamental systems engineering breakdown of systems into system elements but controlled by the ISO/IEC 81346 standard series. This standard is about a “Reference Designation System”, RDS, which is designating the system elements with unambiguous coding principles.
To make this useful and practical for the Airbus DDMS programme, further development in interlinking mechanisms is added and defined, and now makes this the Airbus Common Language (ACL). ACL covers systems, relations, properties in aircrafts as well as the manufacturing of the product. ACL is foreseen as a key enabler for use of MBSE in aircraft programmes...