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Systems Engineering and Requirements Management

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Developing and delivering purpose-driven products.

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Research indicates that more than 50% of all product introductions fail because they do not meet customer requirements. Outlining requirements is a crucial phase in any product development initiative.

How do you manage your requirements? Requirements-gathering activities are one of the strongest discriminators in determining marketplace success. If you work for a best-in-class company, you’re 4.5 times more likely to work closely with customers to identify needs and problems than your poorer performing peers. To turn an idea into profitable reality, you must align functional requirements with customer and market needs, balancing requirements such as regulations, quality, cost, capacity, etc.

Are you thinking big? To determine the correct set of requirements, you must consider them in the context of the whole integrated system (e.g., environmental, mechanical, electrical, software and manufacturing, etc.). You can avoid costly, last-minute corrections and problems by planning the subsystem in the context of the whole.

Teamcenter creates and communicates the correct set of requirements

Teamcenter allows you to create and communicate the correct set of requirements to downstream decision-makers. Powerful systems engineering tools allow you to define the whole system architecture, and requirements communicate that system design throughout the enterprise.

Teamcenter empowers all individuals and functional teams with visibility to each requirement and the knowledge behind it throughout the lifecycle. By aligning decisions with strategy, your company can deliver purpose-driven products – that is, products that achieve their strategic intent.

Key Capabilities and Benefits

Solution Capabilities

  • Requirements management
  • Requirements traceability
  • Systems architecture definition
  • Extended application and systems integration

Solution Benefits

  • Improve productivity and quality by aligning downstream decisions with product strategy and planning
  • Reduce risk by planning and mapping systems, processes, technologies and functional architectures against market needs
  • Avoid unexpected and expensive problems late in the product lifecycle
  • Leverage existing software investments and expertise
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