Data-Consistent Toolchain for a Requirements-Based Specification with the Interdisciplinary Modeling Language (IML)

Disruptions within engineering toolchains as well as scattered system specifications still impede the integration of phase-spanning system design approaches for production machines. Aside of the necessary high efforts to gather the essential requirements for the implementation of a component or process, this also inhibits documenting the reasons for a specific choice of a particular machine concept. Though to achieve reasonable system designs, it is necessary to link and track requirements with the implementing machine structures - consistently and synchronized across all design phases. Therefore, this article presents an approach for a requirements-based toolchain, which enables the data-consistent use of requirements in the system design phase of production machines. Based on the specification language IML (Interdisciplinary Modeling Language) and its central interdisciplinary system model, intuitive operation principles shall support the definition of component-specific requirements sets while round-trip strategies realize synchronized requirement profiles and histories.