Reusability in Engineering Projects

Starting from scratch for each new project is one of the biggest setbacks of traditional project management. Often, tasks and data are reused and repeated, squandering time and effort.

Create a product catalogue for your organisation with models that you typically use to drastically save time and effort. Customise generic models to suit the needs of your team, clients and external collaborators for all projects.

Each project brings a new set of data, skills and lessons learned. Seamlessly capture and reuse these lessons and data from past projects to optimise processes and decision-making across your teams.

Create digital twins of your products to store in a browser-based, cloud-based directory
Transfer operational data into numerous design versions
Parameterised designs can be differentiated for mass production
Easy viewing of discussions, test data, simulation data and documentation so project iterations can be reused and repurposed

"We are defining reusable processes and integrating the management of our own customers from the very beginning: that means we can re-use our common core and then extend hardware and processes to meet specific mission needs."

Jeroen Buursink - Head of Microsatellite Department at OHB LuxSpace

Re-use is not seen as a benefit, project archeology costs too much time, it is cheaper and faster to start from scratch
Starting from scratch with repeated tasks at the beginning of each new project
Information is often lost between projects or not communicated within a team or their customers
Scaling up business operations in a company leads to a lot of time wasted in configuring multiple copies of a model
Being unable to trace back sources of information of important decision points

Maintain consistent terminology throughout and after a project has been completed – effortlessly reproducing reports and documentation
With the benefit of parameterised designs, you can start with one generic model and easily differentiate for a large number of copies (configuration management)

Maintain a virtual catalogue of ‘digital twins’ of all your products
Ability to learn from past projects and bring that knowledge into new project versions