Performance measurement

Performance measurement includes tracking costs, weights, power consumption, or other measurable elements of your design. In Teamcenter, these measurements are defined and tracked using budget definitions. You assign a budget to any structure line that represents a significant element of the system. Budgets also contain rollup capabilities so you can view total performance for your structure.

Early in a product's life, goals and targets for critical parameters are set. For example, how much power a system uses, how much it weighs, and how much it costs. Distributing and managing these targets throughout the product life cycle is known as Technical Performance Management.

Once targets are established, Systems Engineering distributes those values across functional and logical structures, establishing performance goals for subsystems, which in turn distribute their targets to their subsystems. Periodically, actual values are rolled up to check progress towards meeting the goals, allowing users to correct their trajectory towards the goals in progress versus trying to figure out ways to change the product late in the life cycle.

In Systems Engineering, performance measurements are implemented through an interface with Microsoft Office Excel.