A New Concept for Requirements Driven Project Planning in an Integrated PLM Environment

Integration in today’s heterogeneous PLM environments is a key factor in all development phases. This paper describes a methodical approach to integrating requirements modeling into a PLM environment. The specific focus of integration aspects is on project planning of complex mechatronic products with recurrent character based on requirements specification documents. Function and process orientation serves as a basis for the integration. It is discussed how development projects teams can benefit by generating project plans including resource estimations and predefined interfaces to bordering disciplines along the development process. With the help of semantic parsing methods of natural language requirements and through a generic classification system a requirement based product and process model is generated. This model is then taken as the basis for deriving product and process related information. Through domain specific ontology’s generic project and resource plans are generated with the help of the proposed methodology.