Electronics fuel innovations in many industries. As a result, electronics firms are under constant pressure to deliver this innovation on time and within budget, while contending with rapidly changing technologies, increasing product complexity and strict compliance and safety standards. Additionally, firms must typically coordinate project tasks across a global marketplace with an international supply chain.
To help meet these difficult challenges, IBM Rational offers a set of solutions and products for several electronics industry segments, including: semiconductors, medical devices, consumer electronics, network equipment providers, industrial automation and office products.
Our solutions address the key challenges for systems and software developers in the electronics industry including:
- Quality problems resulting in delayed product launches and brand erosion
- Product development processes not suited for new project or product complexity and increasing amount of software
- Trailing competitors in ability to deliver innovative products to market quickly
- Economic/competitive climate demanding reduction in product development costs
- Inability to collaborate and integrate many disciplines of a company or supplier resulting in increased time-to-market
- Difficult and time consuming to prove compliance with government regulations
Here are some of the key areas the Rational solutions for the Electronics industry covers:
Product Portfolio Management:Keys to building the right electronics products for the right markets at the right time are:
- Automate the capture of ideas and collecting them in a central repository – this includes enhancement requests, technology needs, market inputs, competitive intelligence, market information and other details like personas, customers and win/loss reports
- Make selections of product features, requirements, capabilities based on value that it provides to the customer and to your organization – you should be maximizing both in order to achieve success
- Take advantage of best practices from leading companies and leading product management methods and use a tool that supports them while giving you the flexibility to adapt them to fit your organization's culture.
Model Driven Development: - Visualize requirements and define architecture using a standard language maintaining traceability and change impact information
- Provide tests for the quality management system for automated model based testing
- Collaborate efficiently with local or distributed development teams
Product Line Engineering: - Consolidated first-class variation management and automated production optimize developer productivity and reduce per-product development cost
- Simplify – Core asset focused development maximizes software reuse, asset expertise and product quality
- Leverage – Feature-based portfolio evolution optimizes time-to-market and product line scalability
You can listen to the new webcast “Fueling the Next Generation of Innovation in Electronics,” I just recorded which discusses the comprehensive set of capabilities IBM Rational provides for the electronics industry.
To register, please go to
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You can also visit the Rational Electronics webpage where you can find details for our solutions including how codevelopment of hardware and software can help streamline software and systems development and how you can accelerate development of NEPs and mobile device manufacturers.
For more information on medical devices solutions please visit the medical devices webpages.
These webpages provide you access to our key assets including white papers, solution briefs, demos, case studies, webcast replays and other relevant assets to get started.
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