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.
Capture and
Visualize Design Know-how
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 to
optimize the design.
KollabNet manages trade-offs
by allowing design teams to
evaluate the impact that
a change has upon the entire
system. Alternatives can
then be easily analyzed in
order to determine the
optimum alternative for more
detailed design. Just as
important, KollabNet enables
users to track rejected
alternatives. This avoids
re-investigating previously
rejected alternatives and
facilitates potential re-use
of those alternatives if
conditions change.
Manage Product
Architecture
In the earliest stages of
design projects there are
many ideas related to the
solution of a particular
problem, but there are not
enough details available to
create geometry, analysis,
or simulation models based
on those ideas. These ideas
do, however, begin to define
the architecture of the
system. It is these early
ideas and interdependencies
between the ideas that begin
to lead the team to a
tangible solution.
KollabNet, with its
unique Graphical DesignMap
technology enables engineers
to completely model the
entire system's
interdependencies, from
ideas to requirements to
performance characteristics.
This modeling structure also
facilitates consideration
of design alternatives much
earlier leading to increased
innovation and shorter
design cycles.
