Designing with Systems Engineering

When the term is used generically, systems engineering is a method of managing the design of complex, multi-domain engineering products or systems over the life cycle of the project. Decisions you make during the design process may also affect the manufacture of the product.

Teamcenter Systems Engineering provides an object model and tools for developing (authoring) and managing the data related to such projects. Teamcenter does not enforce a particular standard, methodology or workflow, and you can use Systems Engineering to support your preferred practices and procedures.

Systems Engineering provides tools to support systems design tasks. You may complete these tasks in an order that suits your business practices.

• Identify and document requirements.

  Note: Some customers prefer to work with requirements without implementing a systems engineering methodology. For other customers, managing requirements and systems engineering overlap significantly; changes to requirements drive changes to the systems design and vice versa.

• Create several models of the product including functional, logical, and physical model structures.

• Elaborate each model by further decomposition into building blocks.

• Associate requirements with building blocks and components.

• Use modeling and simulation tools and techniques to validate the assumptions and design parameters for the systems, or building blocks, and their interactions.