Siemens EDA paired with PLM

To develop tomorrow’s digital innovations more rapidly, the most successful companies and their suppliers have adopted a system of systems mindset. Today, however, “the system” is no longer just the IP core, IC, PCB, embedded software, ECU, or even automobile your team is developing. Rather it is all those electrical, software and mechanical systems and the network connecting all those systems integrated into smart business environments, smart factories, smart infrastructure and smart cities. It is the whole ecosystem your enterprise or your customers’ enterprises are building. Enterprises therefore must develop product design environments that not only scale with the complexities of design, but also facilitate a digital thread that enables design teams and manufacturing to stay up to date on project status and collaborate worldwide across engineering domains.

Extending the Ecosystem

A digital thread between design and manufacturing enables design and manufacturing teams to better collaborate to speed up the design process and minimize the respins. Streamlining the transition to manufacturing requires sharing a complete understanding of the product and enabling early downstream access to the data. Using a digitally integrated platform helps teams develop a complete and accurate multi-domain bill of materials that companies can easily integrate with a wide variety of other enterprise applications.

Design teams can also develop templates that help teams enterprise-wide to reuse best practices and enforce standards. To facilitate a system-of-systems mindset, many systems companies are turning to model-based systems engineering (MBSE), where sub-systems from the electrical, mechanical and software domains are each functionally modeled and brought together in a comprehensive digital twin at a systems architecture level, before design begins.

A Digital Transformation Partner

To embark upon a digital transformation and then continue to grow throughout that transformation to deliver generations of innovation to market requires partnering with reliable suppliers who not only offer leading solutions for today, but also are committed to formulating new ways to make companies more successful. Siemens is that supplier. It can help companies realize their digital transformation by offering not only the industry’s most complete digitally integrated,
next-generation systems design platform but also one that works seamlessly with
manufacturing, PLM and enterprise flows.