Understanding the functional model

You can use Teamcenter to represent the functional model of a product or system. For example, the functional model of a car consists of various functional subsystems, such as the drive system and the braking system. In turn, the functional subsystems may contain various individual functions of the subsystems. In a functional model, components can be functions or functional subsystems.

The following example shows how you can represent the adaptive cruise control (ACC) system of a car with a functional model. The initial requirement for the ACC system is that the vehicle must maintain a safe distance from the vehicle in front on the highway.

(Diagram: adaptive cruise control functional model example — not reproduced)

The solution is implemented both in hardware and software, but the actual implementation is not modeled at this point in the development process.