Rational Solution for Medical Device Development
The IBM ®Rational® solution for medical device development offers integrated and collaborative capabilities for systems delivery teams. It is a lifecycle management solution that is enhanced with support for safety, reliability, and security analysis, mapping to CMMI maturity levels, and
Requirements Driven Product Development: Case Studies in A&D, Medical Electronics and Automotive
Collaborative Product Development Associates has interviewed EADS, Cardinal Health and Chrysler to learn how they use Rational(R) DOORS(R) to integrate requirements across diverse engineering teams and across the product lifecycle.
Requirements Engineering for Medical Devices
This white paper explores requirements engineering and its important role in product development and engineering in the medical device manufacturing segment. It discusses the best practices and benefits of requirements engineering and how they can be achieved through solutions from IBM.
Value-driven quality management for complex systems
For companies whose business outcomes hinge on software working correctly, quality management is vital to success. At the same time, software quality efforts traditionally have been seen as add-on costs to development activities. This paper looks at quality strategies which deliver a positive
Delivering systems innovation with agility quality and speed
This solution brief describes how IBM Rational provides a collaborative systems development platform that helps you deliver higher quality systems to your market in a timely fashion.
A lifecycle approach to systems quality: Because you can’t test in quality at the end
This white paper examines the history and changing role of quality assurance and looks at approaches to effectively integrating quality management into lifecycle activities and how this can improve project outcomes.
Requirements Engineering for Automotive Industry
A requirements-driven approach to product development and helping engineering can help automakers develop models more cost effectively, faster and at a higher quality.
Four key strategies for enabling innovation in the age of smart
On a smarter planet, intelligence is infused into the products, systems and processes that comprise the modern world. These include the delivery of services; the development, manufacturing, buying and selling of physical goods; and the way people actually work and live. Nowhere may this
IBM Rational Rhapsody Tool & Utilities Add-on
The IBM Rational Rhapsody Tools and Utilities Add On tool helps you meet demanding design requirements with its Gateway feature, which provides bidirectional information exchange with third-party requirements and authoring products, including IBM Rational DOORS® and IBM Rational Requisite
IBM Rational Focal Point
IBM Rational® Focal Point™ software is a comprehensive portfolio management solution that helps you prioritize and select the right investments, balance change with business demands, and align resources to deliver the right capabilities at the right time.
Rational Quality Manager
IBM Rational Quality Manager offers two views on the individual user’s dashboard: A work-item list that shows a tester what work has been assigned to him or her, and a team event log that updates automatically as activities occur/progress. Together these views help ensure that everyone is
Streamline development processes through a holistic, standardized automotive architecture framework
With the goal of helping clients turn complexity into innovatin, IBM and the Techical University of Munich conducted a systematic study on automotive architecture and laid out foundational concepts for the development of an automotive architecture framework (AAF).
Four key elements to improving systems engineering in aerospace and defense
This webcast explores four key ways in which A&D companies can improve SE and looks at IBM Rational® solutions and approaches that can help organizations deliver quality products on time and within budget, while increasing efficiency and improving collaboration.
Automotive Model Driven System Development
CPDA's Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) research programs target the critical decisions in Product Lifecycle Management challenging Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Information Technology managers and executives. CPDA's PLM collaborative research programs provide indepth
AUTOSAR: From Concept to Code
AUTOSAR: from concept to code. Introducing support for behavior modeling tool (BMT)implementation, providing automated code and internal behavior generatin for AUTOSAR models.
Requirements-driven product development at EADS, Cardinal Health and Chrysler
Product development groups rely on DOORS to gather, manage, and allocate requirements. Given the rapid rate of innovation for requirements management across the full development cycle, all current offerings in the market face major challenges in fully serving the widening breadth of
Safety Analysis Using UML
This paper discusses the use of the fault tree analysis (FTA) approach to safety analysis and the use of the UML® profiling mechanism to create a safety analysis profile, including the definition of its normative metamodel.
This profile enables developers and analysts
Systems and Software Product Line Engineering
Companies face complex challenges in creating and maintaining the embedded software needed to support a rapidly expanding product line portfolio. To better address this challenge, the IBM Rational® Rhapsody® and BigLever Software™ Gears Bridge solution is a convergence of
A new approach to verifying and validating medical device development
The list of features in medical devices is rapidly rising: Even the simplest of medical devices—such as diagnostic and monitoring systems—house more and more system components, which add greater functionality to the device at a low cost. But by adding components, device software
Deliver robust products at reduced cost by linking model-driven software testing to quality management
With embedded product designs becoming more complex and product lifecycles shrinking, development efficiencies are essential. Fortunately, emergence of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Systems Modeling Language (SysML) standards has provided the opportunity for breakthrough gains in
Driving business success with software reuse
Globalization has given organizations around the world unprecedented access to personnel and to marketplaces. For some, this has meant the growth of the distributed organization with staff located across the world. For others, globalization has meant the routine outsourcing of functions that
Turning Product Development into Competitive Advantage
Explore smarter products and discover some best practices that business can employ to build smarter products and drive innovative technologies.