7.2.3 Tying Requirements to Design Artifacts

A new generation of Product Data Management and Product Lifecycle Management tools offer a combination of systems engineering and design engineering capabilities with a common database. This provides the opportunity to tie requirements to elements of the design such as CAD models, drawings and analyses. Connecting the currently disjoint systems engineering and design engineering modelling domains provides a new opportunity for a rich set of relationships and the promise of alleviating much of the tedious checking of requirements usually performed by design engineers. This paper explores the use cases for joining systems engineering and design engineering modelling and proposes a set of relations that provide meaning to the new links.