Integrated Technical Data Package for Product Development
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Solution Overview
Problem
The coordination and integration of vast amounts of documentation generated across different phases of complex product design and manufacturing are challenging, leading to inefficiencies and increased costs due to the lack of established platforms for organizing and propagating changes throughout the development process.
Innovation Solution
A system generates an integrated technical data package that incorporates multiple objects associated with a product development, identifying relationships between objects to ensure that updates and changes are propagated across all impacted objects, providing an updated snapshot of the product's development status.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If documentation is generated by numerous individuals across different phases, then comprehensive technical coverage is improved, but coordination and integration difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple documentation objects from different phases and sources into a single integrated technical data package. This consolidation allows comprehensive technical coverage to be maintained while reducing coordination complexity by providing a unified structure that automatically manages relationships between all technical objects.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated technical data package serves multiple functions simultaneously: it stores technical objects, establishes relationships between them, propagates changes across the documentation, and provides impact analysis. This multi-functionality resolves the contradiction by handling comprehensive technical coverage through a single universal platform rather than multiple separate systems.
2Adaptability or versatility
If changes are made to technical details during development, then product improvement is enabled, but ripple effects on other aspects increase complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements automatic feedback mechanisms where changes to any technical object trigger automated propagation to related objects. When a technical detail is modified, the system identifies impacted objects through established relationships and automatically updates them, enabling flexible change management while reducing integration complexity through automated coordination.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent establishes relationship mappings between technical objects in advance during the integration phase. This preliminary action creates a pre-configured network of dependencies that enables automatic change propagation later, allowing adaptability to changes while reducing the complexity of managing those changes manually.
3Adaptability or versatility
If documentation integration is performed without an established platform, then flexibility in documentation format is maintained, but coordination efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments documentation into discrete technical objects that can be independently managed while maintaining flexible formats. Each object is a self-contained unit that can be processed, stored, and related to others without requiring a rigid overall structure, thus maintaining flexibility while enabling efficient automated coordination through the integration platform.
4Reliability
If manual coordination of documentation changes is performed, then control over each change is maintained, but time consumption and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The integrated technical data package system performs self-service by automatically identifying relationships between technical objects and propagating changes without human intervention. The system maintains reliable change control through automated impact analysis and propagation, eliminating the time-consuming manual coordination process while preserving control over how changes affect the documentation.
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AI summary
Systems and methods include generating an integrated technical data package that incorporates a plurality of objects associated with a development of a product so that each object is integrated with other objects based on a relationship between each of the objects. Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to incorporating the plurality of objects into a technical data package database. A relationship between each of the plurality of objects may be identified based on an impact each of the objects has on each other object in the development of the product. The plurality of objects may be integrated based on the relationship between each of the object so that an update to at least one object propagates through to each other object integrated with the at least one object. The integrated technical data package may be generated to provide an updated snapshot of the development of the product.