One Connected Model.
Every Process Specified,
Simulated, and Enforced.
Most organizations document their processes. Few can say with confidence that what is documented is what is actually being done — or that the people doing the work have access to the current version of it.
Knar delivers Model-Based Systems Engineering as a management consulting and implementation service: we build a single, connected, executable representation of your business processes, simulate it to expose hidden risks before deployment, and put it in the hands of every person who executes it — with their feedback wired back into the model.
Behaviour decomposition. Credit: Vitech, A Zuken Company
MBSE is not an asset management tool. It applies equally to any process your organization depends on.
What We Deliver — and Why It Changes How Your Organization Operates
Each capability below represents a specific, concrete service Knar provides. Together they form a complete system — from modeling your processes to simulating them, tracking every decision, managing change, and deploying the result organization-wide.
Complete Organizational Representation with IDEF0
We map your organization the way it actually works — not the way the org chart suggests.
Using IDEF0 and its associated diagram family, we build a layered, cross-referenced model that captures every function, every information flow, every constraint, and every responsible role. Unlike conventional flowcharts, each function carries four explicit interfaces — what enters it, what governs it, what it produces, and who or what executes it — so nothing is assumed and nothing is ambiguous.
Your leadership sees a complete, auditable picture of how work moves through the organization. Gaps, overlaps, and undefined responsibilities become visible before they become operational failures.
Simulation Before Deployment — Not After Failure
A process that looks correct on paper can silently assume staffing levels no real team can sustain.
We attach timing and resource data to the functional model and run discrete-event simulation to show how the process performs under realistic operating conditions — before a single person is asked to follow it. The simulation surfaces which roles are over-tasked, where queues and bottlenecks form, and what the process actually requires in terms of headcount and skills.
Manning levels and role definitions are corrected at design time, not as an emergency response to a process that is already failing in the field.
Every Request and Concern Tracked Across Its Full Lifecycle
Most organizations lose the thread between a field question and the decision it eventually produces.
In our MBSE engagements, every concern, request, and risk is a formally structured object — not a row in a spreadsheet. It carries its originator, date, importance rating, responsible party, and current status, and it is explicitly linked both to the model element that generated it and to the requirement or decision that resolves it. A concern raised in the field creates a permanent, auditable chain to its final disposition.
Your organization's official definition of how work should be done is never allowed to drift away from the open issues still being resolved against it.
Structured Change Management That Keeps the Model Trustworthy
A model that cannot absorb change in a controlled way quickly becomes a historical record.
When a risk, a concern, or new organizational information requires changes to requirements, functional architecture, physical architecture, or verification, we capture those changes as formal packages explicitly linked to every model element they affect — whether that is a component, a function, a requirement, or a verification activity. Every change is tied back to a documented reason and forward to every element it touches.
Your organization can evolve with confidence, knowing that what is defined in the model and what is actually being done remain the same thing.
Every change links back to its documented reason and forward to every element it touches — no undocumented drift.
Procedures, Forms, and Documents Inside the Model — Not Beside It
The most common documentation failure is not a missing document — it is an updated process diagram whose associated procedure was never changed.
We capture procedures, forms, and supporting reference materials as structured entities inside the same repository that defines the functions and architecture they support, each explicitly linked to the specific element it governs. When a function changes, the procedure and form connected to it are immediately and visibly affected inside the same environment — not left to drift in a separate document system.
One version of the truth, always. The process diagram and the procedure that executes it are the same connected object.
The Model Delivered to Every User — and Their Feedback Returned to It
A model that no one outside the engineering team can access does not change how the organization behaves.
We deploy the current process definition through a browser-based interface requiring no special installation, making procedures and forms accessible to any authorized user on any standard device. But the genuinely transformative element is that the interface is bidirectional: field issues, review comments, and formal approvals captured through the same channel are automatically linked back into the model as traceable, timestamped objects — not filed in a separate informal system.
The model defines the process, the browser delivers it to every user, and every issue captured through that channel feeds directly back into the continuous improvement pipeline.
MBSE is the Modeling Engine Behind the KIAME Enforcement Framework
Knar's KIAME framework applies MBSE specifically to asset management systems, converting ISO 55000 intent into operational structures that can be simulated, enforced, and improved. Pillar 1 of KIAME — Business Process Architecture — is delivered entirely through the MBSE methodology described on this page.
See KIAME Pillar 1 — Business Process ArchitectureRenewable Fuels Production Facility — MBSE Implementation
Knar developed an MBSE framework linking process design, reliability targets, and economic forecasting for a green fuels plant. The model became the single authoritative reference across engineering, procurement, and operations — eliminating the version conflicts that had previously caused costly rework.
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