Conquer complexity to deliver product innovation

From cars and planes to medical electronics and consumer devices, developing the new generation of smarter products presents new challenges. Software is an ever-more important driver of innovation and differentiation and product developers face increasing complexity, competition and compliance constraints. All this means that efficient development of smarter products requires more than traditional, siloed, mechanical design-centric approaches can offer. Instead, to deliver competitive and innovative products development teams must take a systems engineering approach to unifying electronic, mechanical and software disciplines early in the lifecycle.

The IBM Rational solution for systems and software engineering helps teams to specify, design, implement, and validate complex products and the software that powers them. It combines systems engineering and embedded software development tools with integrated, customizable practices and deployment services.

The solution has been enhanced with new capabilities that help development organizations and systems and software engineers to work more effectively.

Systems engineers can:

• Optimize product designs by studying alternatives
• Act as design authority on engineering decisions
• Manage change across engineering teams

Software engineers can:

• Optimize software design
• Ensure software works within hardware design constraints
• Comply with safety critical software development standards