enhancing visibility and traceability in the engineering lifecycle

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Software and SystemsEngineering | Rational

Enhancing Visibility and Traceability in the Engineering Lifecycle

Giulio Santoli, Client Technical Professional

IBM Software, Rational14/11/2013


IBM Rational Engineering Solutions

Next Generation

Product & Systems Development

� Focused on CAD/CAM and BoM

� Slower to react to change

� Silos of engineering disciplines

� More focus on software and electronics

� Responsive to change

� Systems engineering methods optimize product designs and engineering collaboration

Traditional

Product & Systems Development

Physical Design and Bill of Materials (BoM) Centric

Approach

Mechanical Engineering

Software Engineering

Electrical Engineering

SystemsEngineering

Integrated Electronic, Mechanical, and Software Engineering

Smarter Products won’t be developed the same old wayMake the change or be left behind



Rational Products based on JazzAn Open Platform with a shared set of Services

Electrical/ElectronicsDesign

Mechanical Design

EmbeddedSoftware

Development

Market

Assessment

System

Verification

and Validation

System

Test

System

Requirements

System

Design

Deployment/

Release to Mfg.

Customer

Requirements

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1. Traceability across the lifecycle

3. Collaboration across engineering disciplines

2. Access to all engineering information



Introducing Rational Engineering Lifecycle ManagerExtending the Rational solution for Systems and Software Engineering

• Uses a Linked Data approach that

enables a single source of truth with a

federated architecture to provide

Visibility – across many sources of data

Organization – information in context

Analysis - answer questions using that

contextualized information

• Allows stakeholders to:

• manage growing complexity

• derive knowledge from the available

data

• make timely and correct engineering and business decisions

Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager (RELM)



Summary: Visualize, Organize and Analyze with RELMProvides visibility, impact analysis and document generation across the product lifecycle

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Search & QuerySearch & Query View & NavigationView & Navigation Impact AnalysisImpact Analysis

Search & QuerySearch & Query View & NavigationView & Navigation Indexing of DataIndexing of Data



1. Traceability across the lifecycle

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Mechanical Design

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Development

System

Verification

and Validation

System

Test

System

Requirements

System

Design

Deployment/

Release to Mfg.

Customer

Requirements

Operations and

Maintenance

Implementation

2. Access to all engineering information

Market

Assessment

3. Collaboration across engineering disciplines

Collaboration Across Engineering DisciplinesExtend the collaboration ecosystem



www.ibm.com/software/rational



Product Organization in Rational Engineering Lifecycle ManagerOrganize Cross-Domain Baselines for Product Versions and Variants

Requirements

Baseline 1 Baseline 2 Baseline 3

Software Component 1


Baseline 1

Baseline 1

Baseline 2 Baseline 3 Baseline 4 Baseline 5

Baseline 2 Baseline 3

Hardware Component


What version of requirment, software and hardware are usedin version X of my product?




Requirements

Baseline 1 Baseline 2 Baseline 3



Baseline 1

Baseline 1



Hardware Component


Product Version 1



Requirements

Baseline 1



Baseline 1

Baseline 1



Hardware Component


Product Version 2





Requirements

Baseline 1



Baseline 1

Baseline 1



Hardware Component


Product Version 3





Requirements

Baseline 1



Baseline 1

Baseline 1



Hardware Component


Product Version 4





Requirements

Baseline 1



Baseline 1

Baseline 1



Hardware Component


Product Version 5





Helping customers improve the value and performance of their investments in software as strategic business assets

SummaryEnhancing Visibility, Traceability in the Engineering Lifecycle

� Better Visibility improves Productivity,

Efficiency and Reuse.

� Traceability among different Disciplines

improves Awareness and Collaboration.

� Fully Understanding the impact of changes

improves Agility and recedes Costs.



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