The document discusses Aras' requirements management solution. It allows capturing customer requirements and relating them to different engineering disciplines. Requirements can be linked to other Aras items, files, URLs for traceability. The solution provides enhanced editing and viewing of requirements documents. It integrates requirements management into the broader PLM process.

1. BEDIFFERENT ACE 2012 I NTERNATI O NAL
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2. ACE 2012
INTERNATIONAL
Aras Requirements
Management
Nathan Brown
Director, Product Management
Aras www.aras.com
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3. Why Requirements
Management?
 Requirements are…
 The voice of your customer
 The building blocks of your products
 Verification that you are building what you mean to build
 Defining and validating design and quality goals
 A CRITICAL IP ASSET
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4. Why RM in PLM?
 Validation - are we building the correct product?
 Have we listened to our customers, and captured their needs?
 Are we building what’s ideal for the market?
 Traceability - are we building the product correctly?
 Have we forgotten anything?
 Are my products / parts / documents satisfying my requirements?
 Version Control - are we still building the correct product?
 Close the loop - validate with our customers that we are meeting
their needs
 See how our requirements have historically evolved
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5. Aras RM Vision
 Managing Requirements in Aras Innovator
 Allow relating multiple disciplines to the definition and
validation functions of requirements management
 Easy to use interface to enter and manage requirements
 Leverage workflow, lifecycle, and configuration
management capabilities for enhanced requirements
management
 Integrated processes
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6. Anatomy of a Requirements
Document
 Document Header information
 Product identification
 Chapters
 Structure for the document
• Text- items to describe product
 Documents, Chapters, and text can be linked to:
 From other Aras Innovator items for tracebility e.g. Part that
satisfies a Requirement
 External URL’s
 Files
 Other Requirement objects in other Requirement Documents
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7. Requirements Documents
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8. Enhanced Editing UI
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9. Enhanced Editing UI
Browser-based
Rich Text Editing
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10. Enhanced Viewing UI
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11. External Links- Requirements
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12. External Links- URLs
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13. External Link- Files
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14. External Links- Items
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15. Requirements Search
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16. Aras Requirements
Management
 Unified PLM data model
 Versionable Requirements Documents
 Capture requirements as formatted text, tables
 Link Requirements to other Requirement
Documents
 Link Requirements to Files, URL’s, Parts
 Extended content UI for ease of entering and
editing requirements
 Export Requirements Documents to PDF
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17. Aras Requirements
Management
 Updated enhanced authoring UI/Dojo
 Text with inline vault-based images
 Text with inline item property links
 Trace Matrix Capabilities
 Import/Export from Word
 Requirement Document Change Order/Process
 Requirements as affected items
 Requirement link to any Itemtype
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18. Aras Requirements
Management
 Drag-and-Drop trace linking
 License Manager update enabling trial version
 Requirement Re-use/Derivation
 Customer/Supplier portal
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