Predict Impact of
Change
Market demands are
requiring an ever-increasing
level of complexity in
products in all industries.
In addition, productdevelopment cycles
are decreasing. Increasedcomplexity and
decreased product
development cycles combine
to inhibitinnovation and to
reduce the ability to fully
investigate the impact of
changes during the design
process. The result is thatmany organizations
have fallen into a state of
monitoring the impact of
change instead of being able
to accurately predict theimpact of change.
KollabNet’s ability to
immediately analyze the
impact of change on an
entire project and to
provideimmediate graphical
results gives control of the
process to those managing
the process.
Provide Design
Traceability and Consistency In order to
meet existing market
challenges and to still
remain profitable, system
performance, cost, and
delivery time must be
traceable back to customer
and market requirements, and
the current product
configuration must be
traceable back to the design
changes that resulted in the
current configuration.
In addition, changes that
are made must be consistent
across all applications and
data stores that are part of
the process.
KollabNet is unique in its
ability to provide both
aspects of traceability as
well as design consistency
through automated design
verification and through
maintaining history of each
object that is part of the
project.
Efficiently and effectively
preserving andcommunicatingcompany know-how,
designintent, and design
rationalefor an early-stagedesign across a
multi-disciplineenterprise isvital. Until now,
this has been an extremelydifficult goal to
achieve, and theconsequences of this
lackof capability havebeen costly. The
knowledge andcorporatestandards also must
be captured and appliedcorrectly and the
decision rationalecatalogued so thatthey can be both
retainedand retrieved.
Without thiscapability, theirvalue to the
organization is lost. Byautomating the
capture and management ofdesign know-how,
KollabNet allowsengineers to focus on
what they dobest -creating innovative
new products andrefining time-tested
designs.
Manage Trade-offs
During the development
process, multiple
alternatives are
evaluated against
performance requirements in
order tooptimize the design.
KollabNet manages trade-offs
byallowing design teams to
evaluate the impact that achange has upon the entire
system. Alternatives can
thenbe easily analyzed in order
to determine the optimumalternative for more
detailed design. Just as
important,KollabNet enables users to
track rejected alternatives.This avoids re-investigating
previously rejectedalternatives and
facilitates potential re-use
of thosealternatives if conditions
change.
Manage Product
Architecture
In the earliest stages
of design projects there are
manyideas related to the
solution of a particular
problem, butthere are not enough details
available to create
geometry,analysis, or
simulation models based on
those ideas.These ideas do, however,
begin to define the
architectureof the system.
It is these early ideas andinterdependencies
between the ideas that begin
to leadthe team to a
tangible solution.KollabNet, with its uniqueGraphical DesignMap
technology enables engineers
tocompletely model the
entire system's
interdependencies,from ideas to requirements
to performance
characteristics.This
modeling structure also
facilitates consideration ofdesign alternatives much
earlier leading to increasedinnovation and shorter
design cycles.
