The document discusses IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager (RELM), a product that provides visibility, traceability, and collaboration across engineering disciplines throughout the product lifecycle. RELM uses a linked data approach to give stakeholders a single source of truth and allows them to manage complexity, derive knowledge from available data, and make timely engineering and business decisions. It enables traceability between customer requirements, system requirements, designs, and other artifacts.

1. Giulio Santoli, Client Technical Professional
IBM Software, Rational
14/11/2013
Enhancing Visibility and Traceability in the
Engineering Lifecycle
Software and Systems
Engineering | Rational
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2. IBM Rational Engineering Solutions
Smarter Products won’t be developed the same old way
Make the change or be left behind
Traditional
Product & Systems Development
Next Generation
Product & Systems Development
Systems
Engineering
Electrical
Engineering
Mechanical
Engineering
Software
Engineering
Physical Design and
Bill of Materials (BoM) Centric
Approach
Integrated Electronic, Mechanical,
and Software Engineering
Focused on CAD/CAM and BoM
More focus on software and electronics
Slower to react to change
Responsive to change
Silos of engineering disciplines
Systems engineering methods optimize
product designs and engineering collaboration
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3. IBM Rational Engineering Solutions
Rational Products based on Jazz
An Open Platform with a shared set of Services
1. Traceability across the lifecycle
Market
Assessment
Operations and
Maintenance
System
Test
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Customer
Requirements
2. Access to all engineering information
Implementation
Mechanical
Design
Embedded
Software
Development
Electrical/Electronics
Design
3. Collaboration across engineering disciplines
© 2013 IBM Corporation

4. IBM Rational Engineering Solutions
Introducing Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager
Extending the Rational solution for Systems and Software Engineering
• Uses a Linked Data approach that
enables a single source of truth with a
federated architecture to provide
Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager
(RELM)
Visibility – across many sources of data
Organization – information in context
Analysis - answer questions using that
contextualized information
• Allows stakeholders to:
• manage growing complexity
• derive knowledge from the available
data
• make timely and correct
engineering and business decisions
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5. IBM Rational Engineering Solutions
Summary: Visualize, Organize and Analyze with RELM
Provides visibility, impact analysis and document generation across the product lifecycle
Search & Query
View & Navigation
Impact Analysis
Search & Query
View & Navigation
Indexing of Data
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6. IBM Rational Engineering Solutions
Collaboration Across Engineering Disciplines
Extend the collaboration ecosystem
1. Traceability across the lifecycle
Market
Assessment
Operations and
Maintenance
Deployment/
Release to Mfg.
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mp nit
co efi
De d D
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System
Verification
and Validation
System
Requirements
System
Design
System
Test
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da
tio
n
Customer
Requirements
2. Access to all engineering information
Implementation
Mechanical
Design
Embedded
Software
Development
Electrical/Electronics
Design
3. Collaboration across engineering disciplines
© 2013 IBM Corporation

7. IBM Rational Engineering Solutions
www.ibm.com/software/rational
© 2013 IBM Corporation

8. IBM Rational Engineering Solutions
Product Organization in Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager
Organize Cross-Domain Baselines for Product Versions and Variants
What version of requirment, software and hardware are used
in version X of my product?
Baseline 1
Baseline 2
Baseline 3
Requirements
Baseline 1
Baseline 2
Baseline 3
Baseline 4
Baseline 5
Software Component 1
Baseline 1
Baseline 2
Baseline 3
Software Component 2
Baseline 1
Baseline 2
Hardware Component
© 2013 IBM Corporation

9. IBM Rational Engineering Solutions
Product Organization in Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager
Organize Cross-Domain Baselines for Product Versions and Variants
Product Version 1
Baseline 1
Baseline 2
Baseline 3
Requirements
Baseline 1
Baseline 2
Baseline 3
Baseline 4
Baseline 5
Software Component 1
Baseline 1
Baseline 2
Baseline 3
Software Component 2
Baseline 1
Baseline 2
Hardware Component
© 2013 IBM Corporation

10. IBM Rational Engineering Solutions
Product Organization in Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager
Organize Cross-Domain Baselines for Product Versions and Variants
Product Version 2
Baseline 1
Baseline 2
Baseline 3
Requirements
Baseline 1
Baseline 2
Baseline 3
Baseline 4
Baseline 5
Software Component 1
Baseline 1
Baseline 2
Baseline 3
Software Component 2
Baseline 1
Baseline 2
Hardware Component
© 2013 IBM Corporation

11. IBM Rational Engineering Solutions
Product Organization in Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager
Organize Cross-Domain Baselines for Product Versions and Variants
Product Version 3
Baseline 1
Baseline 2
Baseline 3
Requirements
Baseline 1
Baseline 2
Baseline 3
Baseline 4
Baseline 5
Software Component 1
Baseline 1
Baseline 2
Baseline 3
Software Component 2
Baseline 1
Baseline 2
Hardware Component
© 2013 IBM Corporation

12. IBM Rational Engineering Solutions
Product Organization in Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager
Organize Cross-Domain Baselines for Product Versions and Variants
Product Version 4
Baseline 1
Baseline 2
Baseline 3
Requirements
Baseline 1
Baseline 2
Baseline 3
Baseline 4
Baseline 5
Software Component 1
Baseline 1
Baseline 2
Baseline 3
Software Component 2
Baseline 1
Baseline 2
Hardware Component
© 2013 IBM Corporation

13. IBM Rational Engineering Solutions
Product Organization in Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager
Organize Cross-Domain Baselines for Product Versions and Variants
Product Version 5
Baseline 1
Baseline 2
Baseline 3
Requirements
Baseline 1
Baseline 2
Baseline 3
Baseline 4
Baseline 5
Software Component 1
Baseline 1
Baseline 2
Baseline 3
Software Component 2
Baseline 1
Baseline 2
Hardware Component
© 2013 IBM Corporation

14. IBM Rational Engineering Solutions
Summary
Enhancing Visibility, Traceability in the Engineering Lifecycle
Better Visibility improves Productivity,
Efficiency and Reuse.
Traceability among different Disciplines
improves Awareness and Collaboration.
Fully Understanding the impact of changes
improves Agility and recedes Costs.
Helping customers improve the value and performance of their investments in software as
strategic business assets
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15. IBM Rational Engineering Solutions
www.ibm.com/software/rational
© 2013 IBM Corporation

16. IBM Rational Engineering Solutions
www.ibm.com/software/rational
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