Process-oriented Requirements in Simulation Management

The thorough documentation and provision of information in various forms is a decisive success factor for the efficiency of the product development process. A considerable potential for savings lies in the reuse of knowledge artifacts in the form of simulation requirements and the reduction of redundant process steps in the product development through the repeated identification of requirements.

The aim of the subproject is to support the collection, documentation and provision of contextual knowledge and process knowledge from the simulation phase. Furthermore, experience, competence, and their relations to requirements in the context of simulations are illustrated. Among others, this results in the question of how findings from former projects and already existing simulation models can be used in the early phases of future development processes. To answer this question, the simulation-specific communication between design and simulation engineers has to be modeled with requirement templates. The respective interfaces between knowledge artifacts and requirements management is analyzed, structured, and described in detail. The result is a simulation-specific set of requirement templates for the reuse of simulation requirements in other development projects on the one hand. On the other hand, the detailed procedural integration of simulation-relevant document flows ensures the reusability of knowledge artifacts.

Partner from Industry
iwis motorsysteme GmbH & Co. KG


Technische Universität München
Lehrstuhl für Produktentwicklung

Dr. Hugo d'Albert
Subproject 5

Sebastian Schweigert, M.Sc.
Subprojects 3 and 5