Functional design

Functional design allows users to capture what the product is supposed to do in an implementation independent way. Functional design enables users to describe what the product does without dictating how it is to be done. Functional design isolates implementation from what the product is supposed to do allowing organizations to evaluate many possible implementation alternatives without locking themselves into a particular alternative too soon.

Teamcenter Systems Engineering allows users to capture functions (with their inputs and outputs) while allocating requirements to functions and deriving additional requirements. For such functional design architectures, implementation alternatives can be evaluated through logical modeling.

In Systems Engineering, functional designs are developed through an interface with Microsoft Office Visio.