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Increasing amounts of electrical and electronic components in products, embedded computer devices, the drive to consume less power, new hybrid vehicle technologies, the Internet, mobile devices, and so on, all make product development more and more complex.
This complexity has become impossible to grasp and to manage without the use of the approach referred to as Systems Engineering, aimed at organising the system (the product) into sub-systems intended to meet particular needs (the requirements), each with a functional, logical and physical definition.
For 20 years, PLM has proved its worth for managing a configured digital mock-up drawn from the product definition, but it had next to nothing to do with the processes occurring beforehand. Remedying that required designing PLM extension models that could provide coherent management for Systems Engineering. The emergence of the RFLP (Requirements > Functional > Logical > Physical) concept provided this framework. Coordinated management of those four domains will take time, but the rewards are within reach: they come from integration of the behavioural aspects into the product definition and from their functional traceability.
The Dassault Systèmes V6 PLM platform provides a solid framework for integration and deployment of the process and management of the system configuration. It allows product requirements to be gathered (R=Requirements), system functions to be defined that address those requirements (F=Functions), distribution of those functions across the different logical components within the different sub-systems (L=Logical) and, finally, definition of the geometry of those components and how they are assembled within a physical digital mock-up of the product (P=Physical).
This 'RFLP' approach also provides different simulation levels for each stage. These features together provide a coherent whole that gives the support needed for designing complex systems in their environment, and ensures solutions and architectures chosen will be more mature.
Two solutions are available today for building your repository of complex system design: DYMOLA and CATIA V6 Systems (see CATIA SYSTEMS).
Benefits
The 'RFLP' approach supplied by Dassault Systèmes V6 PLM platform provides users with:
- Continuity between the geometrical model (the digital mock-up) and the different system modelling levels (functional, logical and behavioural).
- A single store for information allowing coherent management of all the data: requirements, simulation models, associated documents, etc.
- A full range of simulations for validation purposes: logical, behavioural and realistic simulations.
Working with Keonys
Keonys can support you in implementing your 'RFLP' systems engineering platform with the following services:
- Consulting regarding the specification and selection of your systems engineering solution.
- Undertaking a "bespoke" pilot project to evaluate solutions based on use cases. This pilot allows your issues to be addressed while demonstrating the benefits of V6 PLM solutions, as well as providing an opportunity to acquire advanced skills in using the chosen collaborative business processes.
- Distribution of Dassault Systèmes systems engineering solutions - CATIA Systems, Dymola, BPA Dysfunctional Analysis & Simulation (e.g. CECILIA OCAS).
- Model library development allowing your expertise to be best exploited. These models are developed using the MODELICA modelling language.
- Training in CATIA Systems and Dymola software, using standard or customised course content.
- Specialist expertise in systems engineering for optimising your processes, modelling your physical systems and managing them coherently, and integrating a systems engineering approach for your entire PLM system.
Example: wind turbine modelled from requirements management to functional simulation
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Wind turbine modelled in its environment |
Electric motor cooling system modelled |
Electrical system modelled |
Embedded calculator modelled |
