Requirements Management and Validation
Specify, define, verify, and validate requirements across the product lifecycle
PLM starts with requirements management
Effective requirements and validation practices are more than just an integral part of developing and engineering complex products and systems. They are vital to mitigating risk and ensuring customer satisfaction.
With requirements management and validation you enable teams to specify, define, verify, and validate every aspect of the product. It offers end-to-end traceability, built-in change and configuration management, and standards-based collaboration across teams, vendors, and supply chains.
Empower teams to collaborate and build complex products
For most manufacturers, requirements are typically managed in independent systems, such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and email. This makes it difficult to keep pace with the velocity of change, ever-growing number of product variants, and added rigor of overlapping regulatory requirements. All too often the result is wasteful product rework that increases costs and undermines the predictability of product release cycles.
To address these challenges, organizations rely on requirements management and validation solutions to deliver compliant, innovative products that meet critical cost, quality, and time-to-market goals. With PTC, you can centrally manage evolving requirements and test assets. The traceability and sharing of data become automated, enabling cross-functional collaboration across applications and throughout the product lifecycle.
Requirements management: Getting it right the first time
PTC’s requirements management and validation solution provides detailed, auditable traceability. This enables safe, cross-functional collaboration and parallel development across all teams involved and the supply chain. With holistic visibility into evolving requirements, stakeholders can easily manage test sessions, determine the impact of proposed changes, and verify test results against requirements for improved product quality and compliance. Requirements can also be imported/exported in the ReqIF file format, with flexible configuration and mapping options for synchronization across supported applications.
Key product features
Configuration and maintenance of managed and traceable requirements-based verification processes.
Advanced authoring and collaboration: Manage data efficiently with rich text and hierarchical views
Contemporary web user interface: Including document and item editors, document review and feedback, embedded OSLC client, and more
Enterprise scalability and reliability: Scale to thousands of users with one unified requirements and validation system
Customer and supply chain integration: Easily share and synchronize requirements information across team, product, and vendor boundaries
Streamlined compliance: Improve compliance, safety, and quality reporting with end-to-end visibility on a secure platform
Process and event-driven server-to-server integrations: Access to data through standards-based APIs, including OSLC for link and trace with Windchill and Windchill Modeler
Subscription-based access: Bundle software and support in one subscription to simplify budgeting, improve transparency, and reduce costs on unused software
Requirements management customer story
Learn how your peers are managing requirements and test data across product lifecycle.
Learn more about Windchill, PTC’s PLM platform
With Windchill, PTC's product lifecycle management solution, you have a scalable and fully tailorable repository for your valuable requirements and validation assets. Windchill enables enterprises to address the challenges associated with manufacturing complex products, which ensures customer satisfaction and the mitigation of risks.
Windchill is utilized by more than 1.5 million users worldwide for access to the digital thread. It is a scalable solution with built-in requirements management and validation.