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- 1. SystemDesignManagementSolutions The Context® System Design Management™ (SDM) platform addresses the information access needs of those involved in developing complex, multi-disciplinary systems by managing the relationships among all facets of the design as it evolves. Architect and Plan your project’s tools and processes. Connect and Trace your project data as you progress through your development project. Analyze and Report on your full set of project data. Context SDM provides a focal point for communication… sharing information where needed in a structured and organized manner. www.mentor.com/products/sm/context-sdm
- 2. Simplify Overwhelming Project Data by Putting it in Context Combining multiple disciplines into a single system can raise the complexity to a level where coordination becomes almost impossible. Tool flows that connect effectively within individual design domains seldom talk to each other outside of their domain. A commonly proposed solution is the PLM “centralize all your data and we will take care of it” approach, but this is not appropriate or effective for the disparate processes, cycle times, and data types of many specialized disciplines. What is needed is a true Systems Engineering approach to integration, one that manages relationships between tools throughout design disciplines; coordinate changes, dependencies, and impacts; and integrates with current tools and flows. Context SDM satisfies these requirements, providing all participants in the design flow access to extensive resources within their preferred environment. When an issue occurs, the user can assign responsibility, acknowledge delegation, and satisfy requirements and dependencies throughout the typical design flow simply by linking to that particular issue as it occurs. Changes are immediately accessible and status is shared in real time. Link as You Think Context capabilities link the “outside in” world with the “inside out” world so things like standards, specifications, business process models, etc., link with analysis, detail designs, and product requirements, keeping all aspects of a design in context with each other. This makes the designer’s daily tasks easier and supports better product management without requiring a change in methodology. All tool-created data remains in the originating environment while sharing useful information as required and relevant to team members. Design Management Solutions Context SDM elevates the efficiency and economy of the development process without demanding disruptive change. • Data managed in original storage/CM system • Integration in design tools delivers dependency information directly to the users • Drag-and-drop associations automate the tasks • Full cross-discipline management and automation • Workflow services guide and manage the process • Flexible views and reports access status rapidly • Built-in automation accelerates repetitive steps Context SDM Architecture Context SDM is built around a server architecture, which is the focal point and organizing base for all information. It holds and manages links between design and project items, building a complete history as events occur. Project managers, reviewers, and any other product data clients have interactive access to that information through the views provided by the Context SDM product manager web interface. These views include queries, dashboards, and reports. Original data remains with the originating tools and repositories. Features are programmable to specific uses cases or needs through an underlying meta-model and associated actions, dependencies, roles, vocabulary, etc. that are a key part of the flexibility of the Context architecture. The user doesn’t need to know which of all the other tools holds the needed data, only how to get to it or if it is related to the task at hand.
- 3. Examples of Use Cases Aerospace Systems Engineering Users: Systems engineers need to create system-level models from requirements. Developers need to create schematics for printed-circuit boards and other implementation technologies. Goal: Achieve digital continuity from systems engineering to the implementation disciplined. Be able to manage, track, and support change in that process. Benefits from Context SDM: System modeling. Requirements and standards integration. Connections to implementation disciplines. Critical Safety Analysis Users: Requirements, system, and safety analysis engineers need to perform design definition, fault modeling, and fault tree analysis. Goal: Create, model, and execute fault behavior. Execute fault analysis in the context of the requirements. Create standards- driven workflow that shows decomposition of functions and potential failures. Benefits from Context SDM: Standards such as ARP 4754A, ARP 4761, and related specifications require a well-linked flow and traceable actions and results such as that provided by Context SDM. Automotive Electronics Development Users: System designers and software developers need to implement development flow that complies to standards. Goal: Satisfy AUTOSAR and/or ISO26262 requirements. Benefits from Context SDM: System-level modeling captures required features for development. Change and the impact of change is integrated into the design flow. Downstream connectivity captured and maintained. Standards-compliant audit trail provided in report format. Industry Standard Collaboration Services Context SDM leverages industry-leading development and implementation of a service-based, tool-to-tool collaboration platformprovidedbyOpenServicesforLifecycleCollaboration (OSLC). Mentor Graphics is a founding member of OSLC. OSLC is built upon the same technology as HTTP, which enables a remote view of information. It operates in the same way as a Web browser-based search query. Instead of copying all queried information back to the user to handle, it provides a view, or a link to, the results. Using this same concept, domain- specific engineering tools can easily be linked together. Context SDM makes the user’s native environment OSLC- enabled, which allows the user to focus on the task at hand. OSLC-enabled tools are able to share essential information, at selectable levels of detail. Options are provided by the standard to allow selection of the relevant services for each given need, such as: • Query, or search, to access data catalogs or identified items • Previews, delivering requested content in the format most useful to the local environment • Create, edit, or other operations as relevant to the process and tool providing the service Satisfying Safety Standards Today’s safety-critical standards are forcing changes in accepted processes. Information required for compliance documents can be hard to find using manual processes. Context SDM tracks changes as they occur, retaining a history of them, which helps to document the actual process followed. By tracing all dependencies and requirements through the entire development cycle, Context SDM provides immediate visual analytics that can be used as an audit trail, providing easier support of domain-specific safety standards. And, it supports standards compliance needs by automating reporting checks that can be used to satisfy safety standards. And, it supports standards compliance needs by automating reporting checks that can be used to satisfy safety standards, such as ARP4754A/4761, DO-178b/c, ISO26262, AUTOSAR, etc.
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