Siemens PLM Software Requirements management “Build-in” the voice of the customer by managing, linking and continuously verifying conformance throughout the product lifecycle

Benefits Summary • Understand what your target markets • Facilitate total quality Teamcenter® software’s requirements man- and customer wants in terms of improvement by providing agement capabilities provide your documented expectations, preferences, your enterprise with a enterprise with a systematic and repeatable standards and regulations from diverse metrics-driven definition for solution for defining, capturing, engineer- sources. determining whether the ing, managing and leveraging product • Supplement these requirements with products you deliver comply requirements. By allowing you to under- quantifiable constraints that determine with customer expectations stand each product in terms of its evolving the success of your take-to-market customer requirements and compliance • Ensure marketplace success programs in terms of their cost and issues, Teamcenter enables you to build in by making certain that your delivery schedules, as well as their ability the voice of the customer and continuously product lifecycle is to satisfy established performance, verify conformance to requirements rigorously and relentlessly ergonomic, safety, usability, reliability, throughout the product lifecycle – thereby driven by the requirements, maintainability, recycling/disposal and facilitating requirements-driven design, needs and preferences of other compliance related metrics. systems engineering, design-to-cost and your target markets and other highly valued business initiatives. • Connect these requirements and customer base constraints to fine-grain design elements Connecting requirements across your • Accelerate time-to-market that trace across the configurations and product lifecycle by allowing you to avoid continually validate the product as it By enabling you to understand and evalu- unexpected problems that evolves across its various lifecycle states. ate product requirements across every might otherwise arise late stage in your product lifecycle, Teamcenter in your product lifecycle allows you to:

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Benefits continued • Establish closed loop processes that feed Teamcenter software’s ability to digitally • Improve product quality by information to product developers and connect your requirements, program con- providing developers with program managers when new straints and design elements is especially immediate feedback when requirements arise, when your program crucial when your enterprise is making program constraints are in constraints are in danger of being time-critical design decisions. Because danger of being violated violated or when review teams need to requirements are digitally connected across understand the requirements related all product structures such as logical, physi- • Increase cross-discipline impact of proposed design changes. cal, manufacturing and more, Teamcenter collaboration by providing allows you to incorporate product require- all of the participants in your ments directly into the workflow-driven product lifecycle with a processes that drive your engineering, pro- common language for curement, program execution understanding a program’s management, change management, total business objectives quality and service/support initiatives. • Facilitate lean design by providing product developers with fine-grain design definitions connected with product requirements The relationship browser provides an easy to and program constraints understand graphical display to trace requirements and their relationship to other objects across the • Facilitate commonization entire product lifecycle. and re-use by enabling requirements to be copied Teamcenter enables you to capture and and replicated across organize your product requirements in a Using the rich text editing capability, or Word and platforms, programs and shared environment that allows team Excel, “Live” users can edit documents and provide additional clarity to their requirements documents projects members to collect, view and edit require- ments from geographically dispersed and by inserting tables and images. Features widely diverse sources using mobile devices • Capture, manage and and interfaces they’re already familiar with. Business issues leverage disparate product Teamcenter provides “live” Microsoft Office Today, companies use many diverse requirements in the same integrations that support viewing/editing sources of information to capture and man- single PLM environment that through Microsoft Word and Excel – essen- age their product requirements, including you use to manage your tially elevating standalone Office spreadsheets, custom-built data-bases, product definitions and applications to multi-user applications con- linked documents and document tracing product configurations nected to an enterprise application. The tools. • Document import/export Teamcenter environment ensures that the Unfortunately, these approaches create iso- mechanism for requirements entitled users in your enterprise are work- lated requirement islands that end up in capture and generation ing from the same set of requirements and documents that never get read or data- using standard Word and product assumptions – while protecting the bases that cannot be linked or applications Excel import/export integrity of your requirements from unau- systems that have nothing to do with the thorized access. product lifecycle. • Automatic document parsing and requirements Teamcenter changes the way you manage identification product requirements by enabling you to capture and organize multiple types of • Connect product product requirements in an enterprise-wide requirements and program environment that authorized users can sub- constraints to fine-grain sequently access using tools they already design elements created by understand. other Teamcenter users Equally important, Teamcenter enables you Using Active Workspace users can quickly search, to connect these requirements with the find and navigate product requirements.

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Features continued rest of intellectual capital that Teamcenter Continuously validate requirements • Define program-related manages – such as the designs, docu- The National Highway Traffic Safety constraints, including cost ments, specifications, models and test Administration’s (NHTSA) vehicle recalls and scheduling controls, as results that comprise your product defini- database reports there are more than 22 well as compliance-related tions. This connection is essential in million product recalls. Most of these metrics that pertain to allowing product requirements to directly recalls are a direct effect of the failure to performance, maintain- influence the processes you use to make validate requirements as the product ability, reliability, and execute design decisions. evolves. Using Teamcenter you can link manufacturability, usability and continuously validate requirements as Use cases and ergonomics the product and requirements evolve Teamcenter software’s requirements man- enabling everyone to more efficiently and • Integration with project agement capabilities can apply to cost effectively plan their work and make management so you can numerous use case scenarios, including more informed decisions. At an average consider requirements in regulatory compliance impact analysis, cost of $100/vehicle companies can save the context of the project trade studies and the continuous validation hundreds of millions of dollars by using plan, giving you visibility to of product requirements. Teamcenter to continuously validate their impact on resources, “Build-in” regulatory compliance requirements across the entire product life- cost and schedules that Teamcenter provides support for regulatory cycle, instead of discovering the problem includes feedback from test compliance. Regulations, such as the after it’s in the customers driveway. to requirements compliance Congressional Battery Act and EEU • Familiar user interface that Directives, which stipulates that manufac- looks and acts like Windows turers pay for disposing/recycling their Explorer/Outlook products. Using Teamcenter Requirements Management you can link these regulations • Short learning curves into your product design, enabling you to facilitated by Microsoft “build in” end-of-life recycling consider- Office integrations that ations across the product life-cycle – support “live” viewing/ thereby facilitating order of magnitude editing through Microsoft savings. For example, suppose an automo- Word and Excel tive manufacturer carries $150 liability to • Multi-user group cover the cost of vehicle disposal. If you environment that enables can drive the cost of recycling/disposal users to view and work on from $150 to $50 and multiply that savings

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