INTEGRATING REQUIREMENT TOOLS IN TEAMCENTER

What Are Requirement Tools?

Every company identifies, captures, and manages its requirements in one way or another, whether using a formal requirements tool or an informal approach like shared drives. Companies that have grown through acquisitions or allowed project teams flexibility in choosing their own requirement approach may have many requirement tools. Based on Siemens’ experience, dozens or even more tools are commonly used within a company.

While this flexibility promotes innovation and adaptability, it has the consequence that when requirements are needed to deliver a single product, design and development teams must understand and implement them while providing evidence of design completion. Collaboration and coordination are critical to ensure all stakeholders are on the same system.

Teamcenter Requirements Integrator

Teamcenter is a reliable software platform that enables everyone to access and help design teams realize requirements. Teamcenter provides mechanisms for managing and collaborating formally on these requirements, regardless of where or how they were created. Once requirements are in Teamcenter, teams can:

• Collaborate with customers or external suppliers
• Establish traceability for process elements
• Assess the impact of any changes
• Enforce process methodologies through workflows
• Facilitate product verification and approval

Teamcenter provides a solution to coordinate all disconnected requirements through the Teamcenter Requirements Integrator. Integration of multiple requirement tools can be supported in several ways:

• One-way – supports control of data transfer and changes
• Two-way – regularly exchanges critical information between tools
• Scheduled or manual – provides methods for when updates should occur

Requirements and Stakeholders

Teamcenter and Requirements Integrator support multiple integrations for existing tools and the RIF/ReqIF (Requirements Interchange Format) standard. These integrations allow you to bridge the gap between multiple requirement tools and the necessary stakeholders.

Whether you have 1, 3, 5, or any number of requirement management tools in your organization, Teamcenter provides a solution to gather, organize, and collaborate across all the tools you have. Customers do not need to decide on a consolidation strategy before realizing value from disconnected requirements. They can start the journey by standardizing how they deliver requirements to the necessary stakeholders across the company.

Source: Siemens

SDE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD (SDE TECH) was established in 2014. By 2018, we became a Smart Expert Partner – a leading partner of Siemens Digital Industries Software in the Southeast Asia – Pacific region for Siemens NX (Unigraphics NX), Simcenter, Solid Edge, Tecnomatix, and Teamcenter solutions.