The creative design technology is urgently needed for realizing intelligent manufacturing on China. However, the Chinese manufacturing industry suffers from a weak creative capability. The model-based system engineering (MBSE) becomes an important enabling technology to enhance the innovation capability of the high-level manufacturing in China because of its obvious advantages. Based on the analysis of the state-of-art of the MBSE, the modeling method, the enabling effects, the challenges and the implementation methods of the MBSE are analyzed. Some suggestions are made for the MBSE implementation in Chinese high-level manufacturing enterprises.

model based systems engineering (MBSE)  /  creative design  /  enabling technology  /  intelligent manufacturing