An Implementation of Integrated Approach in Product Life-Cycle Management Tool to Ensure Requirements-In-Loop During Complex Product Development: A Cubesat Case Study

The complexity of innovative products is increasing due to implementation of emerging technologies and rise in system complexity because of greater system and software functionality and inter connectivity, to address the challenge, multiple engineering disciplines must be well-coordinated in product lifecycle management tools. Complexity of novel products have also demanded the establishment of life cycle spanning development from the conceptualization till product realization. The application of MBSE inside PLM tools to keep requirements-in-loop becomes paramount for timely decision support. Unfortunately, keeping a requirements traceability within product development is still a challenge. In aerospace domain, due to innate complexity results in huge number of mission critical requirements which need to be verified and validated to make well informed design decisions throughout the product development process. In this paper, we have proposed a method to implement MBSE using RFLP approach in PLM tool using a Cubesat case study, to keep requirements-in-loop during initial phase of product development.