PTC Launches Systems Engineering Solution

Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that focuses on how to design and manage complex engineering systems over their life cycles. By applying systems engineering at each stage of a product’s development you can verify and validate the product requirements, create flexible and modular product architectures, and ensure a high-quality product. This is especially important today as products become more complex and companies rush to get them to market quicker.

PTC recently released their Systems Engineering Solution, which combines the strengths of the PTC Integrity™ family of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) products with products from Atego, a wholly owned subsidiary of PTC and a leader in architectural modeling and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).

The Systems Engineering Solution includes the following product families:

• PTC Integrity™: Robust system requirements and validation
• Atego® Asset Library: Collaborative asset management and reuse
• Atego® Modeler: Collaborative, scalable architectural modeling and model-based systems and product line engineering
• Atego® Process Director: Rich process authoring and deployment with out-of-the-box, systems engineering best practices

The PTC Systems Engineering Solution was created to enable faster adoption of the model-based systems engineering approaches, while allowing organizations to choose among text-based, model-based and hybrid systems engineering techniques. The Systems Engineering Solution also enables organizations to design more innovative products using a collaborative MBSE approach. Design capabilities include:

• Requirements Engineering: Author and manage requirements to capture and communicate the voice of the customer throughout the product lifecycle
• System Design: Collaboratively design system specifications using standard (SysML and UML) notation to efficiently explore alternatives
• Analyze Design Options: Perform trade-off analysis to make better decisions in both the design and allocation of functionality to engineering disciplines (hardware, software, electrical, etc.)

You can also reuse system artifacts to enable profitable product line engineering. Applicable capabilities include:

• Requirement, Model and Test Reuse: Reuse all artifacts across design projects to speed time-to-market and reduce costs
• Modular Design: Optimize systems design and architecture for reuse to improve architectural resilience and business flexibility
• Product Line Modeling: Design families of subsystems including commonality and variation to create more profitable product lines

The Systems Engineering Solution platform also enables best practices during the validation of products to meet specific requirements. Applicable capabilities include:

• Model verification: Automate design review to find problems earlier
• Test Management: Author and manage test cases, test sessions and results to improve quality
• Traceability: Capture rich traceability across design artifacts to improve organizational agility and resilience to change
• Governance: Utilize out-of-the-box systems engineering best practices to improve individual and team maturity

Source: PTC