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Methodological excellence and tailored tools for model-based system and software engineering.
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Custom tools for engineering: articles on tailor-made development tools, domain-specific languages (DSLs) and tool development.
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How the Portalon plugin connects AI coding agents like Claude to the live model of a JetBrains MPS project via MCP — structurally safe edits, validation, and language-engineering skills, on your current MPS version.
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Dr. Klaus Birken
10 min read
How the itemis EA Bridge provides Enterprise Architect models as stable, machine-readable data, enabling custom code generation, validation, and documentation tooling.
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Dr. Patrick Könemann
10 min read
Loosely coupling feature models to development artifacts is convenient – but it has hidden risks. This article shows the advantages of tight integration: early error detection, implicit variation points, and automatic consistency checks.
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Dr. Klaus Birken
6 min read
How Franca IDL and itemis CREATE can be integrated to validate embedded software components against interface contracts interactively during development.
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Dr. Klaus Birken
9 min read
An introduction to Franca IDL for contract-based software development, covering interface definitions, tooling and protocol state machines.
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Dr. Klaus Birken
7 min read
A design FMEA is mandatory under ISO 26262 — and expensive to create and maintain by hand. This whitepaper shows how the algorithmic nature of the FMEA method enables full automation from existing engineering work products.
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