Insufficient visibility to requirements during the development process can increase the chances of product failure in the marketplace. Many times this is because requirements are not well connected with product design data nor are they easily accessible by the entire product development team. This makes it difficult to determine whether requirements are satisfied by underlying product designs, whether design changes will impact requirements or understand how requirement changes impact designs, schedule and cost.
Windchill RequirementsLink – an integral option for Windchill PDMLink – lets you expand the powerful capabilities of Windchill to include the management of product requirements including change control and associating requirements with specific product structures and design content. By establishing bi-directional traceability between customer needs, market requirements and the underlying technical requirements, Windchill RequirementsLink helps ensure that customer and market requirements have been satisfied by designs and have been properly verified during development.
Features & Benefits
- Improve productivity by easily understanding the relationships between requirements and product structures as well as leveraging a single, common change process for both requirements and product designs
- Facilitate collaboration across groups and departments on the definition and selection of requirements
- Improve communication by providing visibility of requirements to all teams throughout the product development process
- Accelerate time-to-market with early identification of requirements that are not being met or don’t have appropriate verification plans
- Improve market success by monitoring how well a product complies with customer expectations
