IP Lifecycle Management

IP Lifecycle Management is the management of all product-related information, such as requirements, recipes, and BOMs during the work-in-process, release (across manufacturing, engineering, and support), and IP reuse phases. It eliminates costly product development errors by enabling improved cross-functional product design, manufacturing planning, and performance simulation. It offers teams of any size specialized tools that manage, store, and retrieve the engineering data authored during virtual design, simulation, and manufacturing. Specialized tools for data federation, warehousing, and indexing provide instantaneous access to the right data at the right time. Powerful classification and re-use tools, enabled by quick data access, allow users to capture and share more knowledge quickly.

Within the IP Lifecycle domain are the following sub-processes:

• IP Work-In-Progress enables a consistent, multi-discipline product definition by uniting creators, collaborators, and consumers through a single process based on Requirements, Functional, Logical and Physical (RFLP) product definitions.
• IP Asset Release synchronizes specifications and bills of material (BOMs) from concept to planning to production, reducing errors and costs while enhancing quality and time to market.
• IP Classification & Re-Use decreases costs and promotes knowledge transfer by classifying Intellectual Property (IP) for reuse.

IP Lifecycle Management benefits you by:

• Eliminating costly design and manufacturing errors by enabling improved cross-functional product design, manufacturing planning, and performance simulation through a single integrated environment including both VPM V6 for CATIA, DELMIA, and SIMULIA applications and ENOVIA design data management for most 3rd-party MCAD, ECAD, EDA, and Artwork tools.
• Enabling a consistent product definition by uniting creators, collaborators, and consumers through a single authoring system based on detailed requirement, functional, logical, and physical (RFLP) definitions
• Decreasing costs and promoting knowledge transfer by classifying IP for reuse
• Leveraging product information from other enterprise systems by federating their IP into a master bill-of-material (BOM)
• Synchronizing product specifications with BOMs from concept, through planning, to production, reducing errors, cost, and time-to-market while enhancing quality
• Performing up-front evaluation of product cost structure to guarantee that requirements met downstream result in profits