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PLM Road Map 2009 event heralds transformation |
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| The shift from a document-based to a model-based approach |
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Page 1 of 2  The 16th PLM Road Map hosted by Collaborative Product Development Associates (CPDA) in Detroit in September addressed a PLM environment that has been radically transformed.
Only ten years ago we thought primarily about improving collaboration across limited groups directly involved with design and product development.
Today, PLM targets the integration of product development efforts across all domains touched by development, for the full product lifecycle. Even more daunting, we are talking about a detailed reconciliation across expert domains that involve incredible complexity.
Walden Rhines, chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics addressed automotive issues with his presentation, “Changing the Landscape of Vehicle E/E Design with Model-Driven Design.”
Dr. Walden C. Rhines, chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics, opened the conference with his keynote on model-driven development (MDD). Given the escalating complexity confronted in product development, Dr. Rhines called for a paradigm shift for vehicle design (the conference was in Detroit, after all), through model-driven development.
MDD uses executable models to verify design, as defined at each level of abstraction, and automatically derives the design description for the next lower level. MDD can be applied to the entire system in a hierarchical fashion. This starts by defining system requirements and moving to functional elements mapped to the system architecture and to the requirements. At each hierarchical level of design, models support the ability to verify the design, much earlier than if waiting for the actual hardware implementation. Developers significantly reduce the risk to schedule, cost, and quality, by leveraging such a model-driven environment – a methodology that electronic design automation has pioneered and proven over the decades – and continue to evolve to address the challenges to industry.
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