Demonstration of a conformity assessment data model

The purpose of this research was to test the applicability of our conformity assessment data model using a simple industrial conformity example and an industrial software tool. As a demonstration case, we stated a claim relating to diversity of a nuclear fuel cooling pool control system. With the Siemens’ Polarion™ Application Lifecycle Management tool, we traced the claim to the diversity requirement, to the system model and to the dependency analysis result, which was used as the evidence for the claim. We managed to implement all the artefacts to be traced according to our data model into the industrial tool. We found out that it is rather straightforward to implement our conformity assessment data model in a software tool offering database-oriented repository and traceability support. The data model is thus suggested for industrial use to make the conformity assessment process more effective by providing traceability information, structured input and storage of compliance data and by facilitating automatic document generation.