Coordination of engineering disciplines to facilitate delivery of quality products which meet customer needs
Connecting engineering disciplines to deliver innovative products and systems
To maintain a competitive advantage, organizations developing complex products and systems must react quickly and effectively to changing market forces. Functional differentiation through software can boost both innovation and flexibility, but software can also bring complexity to both products and development.
IBM offers systems engineering tools and processes that help connect software engineering with other disciplines such as mechanical and electrical engineering into a structured team effort from concept through operations.
The result is a streamlined development environment that empowers the whole team to respond quickly to changes and opportunities in the marketplace.
IBM Rational solutions for systems engineering help systems engineering teams to:
- Coordinate processes and data from multiple engineering disciplines
- Streamline innovative product and product line development
- Prove compliance to regulations and standards
- Achieve quality that grows your business and protects your brand
- Address the needs of specific industries, including aerospace and defense, automotive, electronics, and energy and utilities
Featured solutions
IBM Rational solution for systems and software engineering
A systems lifecycle management solution comprising IBM development tools, proven best practices, and flexible deployment services to help you optimize complex and embedded systems and software delivery.
Featured products
IBM Rational Focal Point
Evaluate investment scenarios to align product, project, and application portfolio decisions with the overall business value.
IBM Rational Team Concert
Provides agile and formal planning, source code management, work item management, build management, and project health.
Rational DOORS
Requirements management and definition using a collaborative approach, that enables stakeholders and IT teams anywhere in the world to provide input, gain clarity, better achieve consensus, and adapt to changes more quickly.
Rational Rhapsody
Automate delivery and testing of executable architectures and real-time and embedded software to increase development agility.
Rational Quality Manager
Optimize quality through collaborative planning, automated testing, and defect management.
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Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager
Visualize, analyze and organize engineering data for better decision making
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Systems engineering for dummies
Learn how to expedite time-to-market, ensure business agility and deliver high-quality smart products.
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Webcasts
Ten point guide to streamlining product development with systems engineering
Systems engineering can help engineers see the big picture—not just their small piece of the puzzle—with the benefits of faster development, higher product quality, increased innovation and reduced risk. Attend this informal coffee-break style discussion and learn ten key ways that systems engineering can help streamline product development.
How to capture the hidden value within your engineering data
Customers demanding evermore functionality. Shorter market windows. Compliance demands. It's more difficult than ever to create products that stand out among the competition, yet are still profitable. Next generation products require next generation development techniques, such as systems engineering, to leverage knowledge and drive innovation earlier in the development process. Most organizations actually have the engineering data required to make this happen, but simply can't access it or make sense of it due to overwhelming complexity and lack of integrated views.
Systems engineering: The key to optimizing business value in product development
Systems engineering can help product manufacturers reduce the risk of change to both their products and development processes. It can provide insight into the impact of fundamental architectural design decisions early in the product development process. Finally, it can help ensure that the product built is optimized for their business.
White papers
Strategies to capture greater value from systems engineering
This paper discusses the practices that companies should explore to move beyond traditional PLM and ALM to realize the broader capabilities of systems engineering for reducing time to market, meeting regulatory compliance mandates and improving product quality.
Applying agile principles to the development of smarter products
Agile development has become a cornerstone of most software development organizations. Marked by iterative processes that deliver incremental value over time, agile development has enabled organizations to manage software complexity more effectively and to improve quality and time to market compared with previous development processes
eBooks
Systems Engineering for Dummies
This IBM Limited Edition ebook, “Systems Engineering For Dummies,” explains what systems engineering is and how it can help you simplify the development of smart, connected products. If you're looking for ways to expedite time-to-market, ensure business agility, and deliver high-quality smart products while cutting costs, this ebook is for you.
Creating smarter products with IBM Rational systems and software engineering
This e-book describes how to meet the challenges of complex product and software development. Learn about Rational capabilities for systems engineering, real-time and embedded software development, systems of systems engineering and product line engineering.
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