Decisions made in the early stages of the product development lifecycle have significant impact on the downstream activities. However, existing tools supporting decision-making and product verification at these stages are very limited. One of the obvious reasons is the lack of a common understanding between the system-level design activity and the design activities within the various participating engineering disciplines. In this paper, we propose a collaboration solution which we have developed and commercialized based on the model-driven development platform that allows numerous engineers from heterogeneous engineering disciplines to collaborate on the development of a complex system, such as an automobile. It helps engineers apprehend the system holistically and collectively thus make better architectural decisions. More specifically, this solution connects discipline-specific designs and simulations with the system-level requirements that trigger them in order to facilitate the integration of development efforts and to enable system-level evaluation of the design concepts early in the product development processes. Our approach provides an effective way to trace and analyze the impact of requirements and design changes, facilitates reuse of simulation artifacts for the optimization of future product designs, and supports decision-making activities at the system level. We illustrate our approach in the context of a automotive use case involving mechanical, requirement and safety engineers respectively using their own authoring environments but collectively in synch on the total system thanks to an SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) based integration between their authoring environments.
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ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
September 4–7, 2007
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Design Engineering Division and Computers and Information in Engineering Division
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0-7918-4803-5
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A Model-Driven Development Approach to Integrating Requirements, Design and Simulations in the Early Stages of Product Development
Sai Zeng,
Sai Zeng
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY
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Man-Mohan Singh,
Man-Mohan Singh
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
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Laurent Balmelli,
Laurent Balmelli
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
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Ioana M. Boier-Martin
Ioana M. Boier-Martin
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
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Sai Zeng
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY
Jose´ Gomes
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Man-Mohan Singh
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Laurent Balmelli
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Ioana M. Boier-Martin
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Paper No:
DETC2007-34208, pp. 911-923; 13 pages
Published Online:
May 20, 2009
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Zeng, S, Gomes, J, Singh, M, Balmelli, L, & Boier-Martin, IM. "A Model-Driven Development Approach to Integrating Requirements, Design and Simulations in the Early Stages of Product Development." Proceedings of the ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Volume 2: 27th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Parts A and B. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. September 4–7, 2007. pp. 911-923. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2007-34208
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