This 2025 recap marks a turning point for ATICA. What began in 2024 as a promising approach to model-based safety and reliability engineering moved decisively into validated, real-world use. Over the year, the focus shifted from proving concepts to proving impact. Specifically, this meant deploying ATICA in operational contexts, strengthening its analytical core, and aligning it with standard system modeling practices. The result is a more mature and industrial tool that no longer lives at the edge of engineering workflows, but integrates and complements them.
2025 Recap: Key Milestones
This 2025 recap highlights the milestones that moved ATICA from first usage to proven industrial impact.
CORSARIO: Model-Based Safety and Reliability Proven in an Industrial Aerospace Programme
The most significant milestone of 2025 was ATICA’s role in the CORSARIO project. This was not a pilot or internal demonstration, but a large, multi-partner aerospace programme involving Airbus Helicopters, Inster and Tecnobit (Grupo Oesía), Tecnalia, and Anzen Engineering.
CORSARIO aimed to develop and validate a SATCOM system for helicopters. In 2025, the project reached a decisive moment with the successful validation of the concept at Airbus Helicopters’ facilities in Albacete.
ATICA’s contribution, through Anzen Engineering, focused on applying model-based technologies directly to safety and reliability engineering. Using a Capella model as the backbone, ATICA supported the execution of safety and reliability analyses aligned with aerospace standards, including Fault Tree Analysis, Functional Hazard Analysis, and quantitative reliability assessments.
What made CORSARIO especially important was not just the technical success. More importantly, ATICA produced analyses directly from system models that were traceable, repeatable, and connected to design decisions. As a result, this validated ATICA’s core premise that safety and reliability engineering can use a model as a source of truth.
CORSARIO transformed ATICA from a promising tool into a proven approach, capable of supporting complex and collaborative aerospace programmes.
Related post:
– CORSARIO Project Update: Successful Validation (2025 | 06)
Product Maturity: From Prototype to Platform
In parallel with industrial validation, 2025 was the year ATICA became a mature, deployable product.
Early in the year, ATICA went web-based, allowing users to access the platform without local installation and to explore its capabilities through a public demo. This marked a shift from controlled usage to open evaluation and broader engagement.
To support this growth, the team introduced a new deployment pipeline, improving repeatability, scalability, and operational robustness.
Compatibility also mattered. With ATICA becoming ready for Capella 7, the platform demonstrated its ability to evolve alongside the system engineering tools it integrates with, rather than lag behind them. Also, we demonstrated compatibility with Obeo’s Team for Capella and Cloud for Capella solutions.
A new licensing system completed this maturation phase, clarifying how ATICA can be adopted across different contexts—from research and experimentation to structured industrial use.
Related posts:
– ATICA goes web, and you can try the demo now! (2025 | 05)
– AWS cloud deployment for ATICA: Scalable & Secure (2025 | 08)
– ATICA is ready for Capella 7 (2025 | 09)
Technical Breakthroughs: Making Advanced Methods Practical
At the same time, ATICA’s analytical capabilities advanced significantly in 2025.
Fault Tree Analysis saw improvements in both usability and performance. A redesigned FTA visualization made complex fault structures easier to read and discuss, while a new computation engine improved scalability and laid the foundation for larger, more demanding analyses.
At a methodological level, 2025 continued to push a core idea: advanced techniques only matter if engineers can use them. Work on modular Markov modeling showed how mathematically powerful methods can be decomposed, structured, and embedded into system architectures instead of remaining expert-only tools.
This same philosophy extended to AI-assisted and agentic approaches. Rather than treating AI as a black box, collaborations focused on how intelligent agents can support reliability prediction while preserving transparency and engineering control.
Related posts:
– AI-Assisted Reliability Predictions in Aerospace Safety Engineering (2025 | 04)
– Agentic Reliability Prediction: A Tecnalia and ANZEN Collaboration (2025 | 10)
– Making Markov Analysis practical through modular modeling (2025 | 11)
Aligning with the Future: Preparing the Move to SysML v2
A strategic technical decision in 2025 was to begin transitioning ATICA from Capella-only integration towards SysML v2.
This reflects a broader shift in system engineering toward open standards, API-driven toolchains, and tighter coupling between authoritative system models and downstream analyses.
The work done in 2025 laid the foundations for new workflows that are directly connected to system models, without translation layers or manual duplication.
What 2025 Taught Us
This 2025 recap would be incomplete without the lessons learned from real industrial environments.
Projects like CORSARIO provided sharper insight, stronger credibility, and clearer direction than any internal roadmap exercise could.
Advanced safety and reliability methods are adopted when they integrate naturally into system models and engineering workflows. Mathematical rigor alone is not enough.
2025 also highlighted clear opportunities: new workflows to formalize, deeper integrations to build, and reliability practices to push earlier into design.
2026 Objectives: Where We’re Going Next
In 2026, ATICA moves from consolidation to focused expansion.
A central objective is the deployment of ATICA for SysML v2, including a new reliability prediction application. This application will allow users to connect a SysML v2 model directly to ATICA using the standard API, enabling to develop reliability analyses directly from authoritative system models.
The goal is to reduce translation effort, improve traceability, and bring reliability reasoning earlier into system design, where it can influence decisions rather than merely assess them after the fact.
Closing
This 2025 recap captures the shift from experimentation to validation, setting a clear foundation for what comes next. 2025 established ATICA as a mature, validated platform with real industrial impact. The work ahead builds directly on that foundation, extending ATICA into open standards and deeper system integration.
We’ll continue sharing technical insights, project updates, and lessons learned as this journey continues. Stay tuned—and we look forward to connecting with engineers and teams facing the same challenges.
About the author
Daniel Villafañe is an aerospace engineer with expertise in avionics, systems engineering and model-based design and analysis.
At Anzen, Daniel’s work is focused on ATICA, our model-based tool for safety analysis. Daniel is in charge of building system models and applying systems engineering processes while using ATICA to improve results on safety and reliability analyses for aerospace avionics projects.
