Towards the adoption of model based system safety engineering in the automotive industry

Model-Driven Engineering techniques are becoming increasingly common for use in automotive software engineering, particularly to enable architectural modeling as well as safety analysis, especially fault tree analysis (FTA). One common MDE tool is Medini Analyze from Ansys, which has many tool suites and interfaces that allow for building complex models and performing safety analysis on them. However it can be tedious, error-prone and repetitive to have to construct models by hand. In this paper we introduce strategies for adopting Medini in industry, streamlining the model generation process, and enabling engineers to focus more on safety analysis. The strategies introduced leverage the already existing technologies in Medini, specifically the Javascript API that it enables, as well as interfaces with Microsoft Excel.