LieberLieber: Sponsor of the INCOSE Healthcare Conference

After initial experience with medical technology conferences in German-speaking countries, LieberLieber is now stepping up its internationalisation by sponsoring the 10th INCOSE Healthcare Systems Conference in Bloomington, Minnesota (USA). Topics such as artificial intelligence, digital engineering and digital twins have also arrived in medical technology and are providing a boost to innovation. In the field of medical technology in particular, systems are subject to the highest demands, which can be met in a targeted and audit-proof manner with MBSE. LieberLieber can also draw on a wealth of experience in the automotive sector, where the trend towards MBSE was already taken up earlier. Dr. Konrad Wieland, CEO of LieberLieber: "Thanks to our many years of involvement in INCOSE working groups, it was a logical step for us to become a sponsor of the Healthcare Systems Conference in the USA. We are already working with companies on relevant projects and see great potential to actively tackle the growing complexity in medical technology with MBSE. With regard to the conference, we are particularly looking forward to the intensified cooperation with our US partner Armstrong Process Group (APG), the keynote speech by our customer Medtronic and many interesting discussions about MBSE in medical technology!" Due to the great interest in “MBSE in medical technology”, LieberLieber is currently also considering taking a closer look at this topic at its own “MBSE Summit 2026” event.

Close collaboration with Armstrong Process Group (APG)

LieberLieber USA has its own office in Houston, Texas and will be working more closely with Chris Armstrong, President of Armstrong Process Group (APG), in the future. APG helps clients align their architecture and engineering capabilities with their business strategy. The new LieberLieber partner is primarily active in the areas of enterprise and business architecture, systems and software engineering, and agile methodologies. APG is also an active member of Object Management Group (OMG) and INCOSE, the Business Architecture Guild and The Open Group and has contributed to SysML, UAF, UML, TOGAF and ArchiMate. "The collaboration with Chris Armstrong opens up new opportunities for us in the US. In addition to our experience with Enterprise Architect from Sparx Systems, we also have many joint activities in the important committees relating to model-based development," explains Wieland.

Agility in the healthcare sector

2024 Philipp Kalenda, Head of Consulting at LieberLieber, gave a presentation at the German MedConf on the topic of ‘MBSE in medical technology: in harmony with agile development methods?’ Medical technology systems are subject to strict safety-critical requirements, and more and more standards need to be comprehensibly mapped throughout the entire system. MBSE lends itself to this, as its emphasis on visual modelling offers a powerful way of designing, analysing and communicating complex system architectures. This visual representation becomes the linchpin in the agile development cycle, facilitating efficient collaboration between interdisciplinary teams, promoting transparency and enabling rapid iterations in response to changing requirements. However, this requires a functioning configuration management system, which was examined in more detail in the presentation.

Customer testimonial: Modelling for proton therapy against cancer

IBA is the world market leader in particle accelerator technology. Within IBA research and development, a small group of experts has been working with the Enterprise Architect modelling platform for over 15 years. Now the use of modelling is being significantly expanded with LemonTree from LieberLieber, among others, as the company has come to appreciate the advantages of MBSE. The expansion of the tools used and the increase in the number of system modellers from a few experts to over 20 led to a considerable need for training. Thibaud Thomas is Manager for System Architecture at the IBA Group: "The modelling group suddenly consists of people with very different levels of knowledge, from beginners to experts. Teamwork also brings with it new requirements that we have to adapt to. We also wanted to get to know LemonTree better and improve data exchange with Polarion. That’s why we took advantage of LieberLieber’s extensive training and consulting services to expand our expertise accordingly."

Two Enterprise Architect basic training courses were completed, including in SysML, the language most commonly used for MBSE. Three advanced workshops on LemonTree, LemonTree.Connect Polarion and Build Pipeline Model Automation (GitLab Build Pipelines) were organised for working with LemonTree. In addition, the IBA Group is a pioneer in the use of LemonTree.Connect Polarion Automation, which, like LemonTree.Automation, is used automatically in a build pipeline. After a thorough evaluation, the decision was made in favour of WebEA and ProCloud Server in order to better involve stakeholders who do not model themselves in the communication.

Read the full succes story here: https://www.lieberlieber.com/en/lieberlieber-modelling-for-cancer-proton-therapy/

More information about the 10th INCOSE Healthcare Systems Conference (29 April to 1 May 2025, Bloomington, Minnesota (USA): https://www.incose.org/hwg-conference/home

Whitepaper: The model-driven healthcare system

An initiative for targeted digitalisation in the healthcare sector

In the whitepaper ‘Model-driven digital health’, Oliver Matthias Kipf, Solution Lead at BIX (a Boehringer Ingelheim company), presents the many opportunities offered by a healthcare system whose development is based on a model-based approach. LieberLieber welcomes this initiative and supports the vision outlined in the white paper.

Healthcare systems large and small around the world today are looking for new and better ways to respond to the changing healthcare landscape. The white paper recommends a model-based approach as the foundation for planning, building and operating digital health solutions. By using industry standards and best practices, ‘model-driven digital health’ becomes an important enabler for establishing a culture of quality and organisational excellence within and between organisations and for realising the vision of digital health. At the same time, modelling provides important impetus for standardisation, which is ultimately necessary for the success of digital health.

https://www.lieberlieber.com/en/sparxsystems-ce-and-lieberlieber-proudly-present-the-model-based-healthcare-system/

Reference architecture for hospitals in the Netherlands

Nictiz is the Dutch competence centre for e-health. With the help of the Enterprise Architect modelling platform (Sparx Systems), the hospital reference architecture ZiRA was created there, which has met with great interest not only in the Netherlands. The framework is used to facilitate the inventory, development and innovation of hospital IT. Particularly interesting examples are now presented in a practical handbook to support the dissemination of the reference architecture. ZiRA (Ziekenhuis Reference Architecture) arose from the realisation that, although Dutch hospitals were dealing with similar problems, there was no framework for cooperation in the field of IT. Ten IT specialists from various hospitals in the Netherlands joined forces and developed ZiRA with Enterprise Architect on the basis of information requirements and best practice examples. ZiRA is part of the iZiekenhuis community, in which hospitals share their knowledge and experience with regard to information provision. ZiRA also provides a digital platform for sharing knowledge, information and best practices. In addition, regular workshops are organised with and for information architects.