Requirements, trace links, and notes overview

Product requirements are identified and developed at a project's inception, so that problems are revealed and understood before the actual product development begins. Then, requirements are associated with the product design, and that connection is maintained through all successive stages—while drawings, parts, and assemblies are developed, tested, and changed.

Requirement types:

• Requirements Teamcenter Systems Engineering provides two types of requirement items, Requirement and Paragraph. The term requirement is used for both types.

• Parametric requirements Represent the requirements established by the Standards Engineering organization that conform to the design practices of a program. Parametric requirements are often maintained in a library for use by all designers.

Teamcenter provides you with features to manage requirements using trace links. Through trace links, requirements are connected to objects in other Teamcenter applications, as appropriate for the product design.

Custom notes can be created in the context of another object such as a requirement, a part, or a manufacturing object such as a process or operation. Notes are used to capture issues, actions, questions, or other ad hoc types of information.

For more information about managing requirements, see Systems Engineering— Deployment and Rich Client Usage.