Press release – September 6, 2024
Efficiently evaluate requirements with CIM Database PLM
CONTACT Software has added a new application to its PLM module for Requirements Engineering. The ReqXpert helps companies to evaluate all product requirements quickly, easily, and reliably.
Customers, legislators, and consumer advocates place high demands on products. In some industries, ensuring safety, quality, functionality, and sustainability is particularly complex. Examples of this can be found in medical technology, mobility, and mechanical engineering sectors. With CONTACT Software’s Requirements Engineering, companies can systematically capture, categorize, and prioritize the vast array of requirements while transparently tracking their implementation throughout the development process.
As part of CIM Database PLM, the application allows companies to link requirements, enabling to identify how they interact with mechanical, E/E, and software-based product components. An audit trail automatically records every change and helps to avoid errors as well as costly rework, significantly speeds up product development, and simplifies documentation obligations.
CONTACT Software has now added another tool to make requirements management even more efficient. The new ReqXpert supports the evaluation process with two views of a product’s specification, each tailored to the specific tasks of the users. The “My Responsibilities” view lists all the requirements of a specification that a particular person is responsible for. Here, users can assign individuals to assess specific requirements and track their evaluation status at any time.
The evaluation process in ReqXpert is integrated with the task management in CIM Database. This means that evaluators can find their assignments in their task boards, and in the new “My Evaluations” view, they can see all the requirements within a specification that they need to assess. Additionally, they can simultaneously determine whether these requirements are technically feasible without leaving the overview.
This enhanced requirements management is just one of many new products CONTACT Software will showcase at Open World 2024 in November. All of them are part of the next version of CONTACT Elements, which has been available for customers and partners to download since September.
