OBD Requirements

Project Basics

Requirements are often stored in multiple systems engineering tools across businesses. This does not allow for requirements to be shared or allocated across the business. Teamcenter® Systems Engineering had been the tool of choice for storage and work management for On-Board Diagnostic (OBD) requirements, however in an effort to utilize a tool common across the business, OBD requirements and work management were migrated to PTC Integrity.

Problem

The data structure for TcSE and Integrity are quite different and there is not a way to directly move data from one system to the other. Additionally, Teamcenter ® Systems Engineering was set to be decommissioned, which added tight time constraints to the project. 

Solution

• Created a data model and architecture for the OBD requirements schema in TcSE and worked with Integrity developers to recreate this within the Integrity tool.

• Created a gap analysis report of new data structure.

• Migrated all data and linkages from TcSE to Integrity. 10,000 requirements and 25,000 links in all.

• Created and delivered training on the new data structure and management processes. 

Benefits Realized

• Harmonization of data across business.

• Requirement flowdown and traceability from source to end user.

• Meeting migration deadlines ahead of schedule.

• Cost savings by the decommissioning of TcSE, a redundant tool.