Valispace provides a Single Source of Truth along the Lifecycle

Explore all design options, and make smart choices between them.

• Collaborate and explore different designs for engineering challenges
• Keep track of all reasoning behind decisions and their associated data
• Decide between different designs through data-driven trade-offs
• Tag different design options to retrieve information easily

With Valispace

• Leverage your team’s creativity by maximising the number of ideas and coming up with as many options/alternatives as possible all together
• Manage your data with ease within Valispace by maintaining a single source of truth where you can work and store all your data
• Enhance your communication by discussing directly on technical data to come up with worthwhile solutions
• Retrieve all informations about decisions and choices including reasoning, time and user specifics via history tracking; ensuring no ambiguity in the future

Relevant Disciplines:

• Concurrent Early Design
• Cost Engineer
• Subject Matter Expert
• Systems Engineer

Connect Valispace to any tool with the Open API

• All data from Valispace is accessible through an open REST API 
• Connect to any other software in your tool landscape with standard web technologies
• Use the Python API to write automated scripts

With Valispace

• Leverage automations for high efficiency
• Seamlessly connect your tools to Valispace, which acts as your  single source of truth
• Benefit from fewer inconsistencies by removing excessive data exchange between tools 

Relevant Disciplines:

• Detailed Design & Simulations
• Subject Matter Expert
• Systems Engineer

Better traceability with change tracking and history

• With Valispace, every change made in the system is stored in the history
• You can always go back and see who made a change, at what time and the reason behind it
• With the time machine and baselining you can store different versions of your design and find back historical values 

With Valispace

• Benefit from full clarity on reasoning and justifications of design changes 
• Refer back easily to changes made when and by whom, as well as the full repercussions on the design
• Make use of discussions on every item of Valispace, establishing full clarity on collaboration 

Relevant Disciplines:

• Detailed Design & Simulations
• Project Manager
• Systems Engineer
• Technical Change Management

Giving your team a single place to collaborate.

• Engineers can collaborate in real time on a single design
• Collaborate with up to several hundred concurrent participants, redefining multi-user collaboration
• Work with participants that are co-located or connected remotely
• Keep track in real-time of engineering values, comments, requirements and more
• Compare multiple baselines all in the same tool

With Valispace

• Create early phase designs in days instead of weeks and place prototypes in customers’ hands in weeks instead of months
• Activate fast concept studies to find out potential new products or features
• Updates and changes are easily and automatically propagated, for the whole team
• Communication is effective via real-time updates and notifications
• Smart engineering budgets keep you all up to date

Relevant Disciplines:

• Concurrent Early Design
• Subject Matter Expert
• Systems Engineer

Generate your engineering budgets automatically

• Keep track of your engineering budgets such as cost, mass and power 
• With custom formulas, your engineering budgets are generated automatically with one click
• You budgets can be displayed in your design, documentation and dashboards for an easy overview 

With Valispace

• Avoid copy-paste errors by generating your budgets automatically from your design and formulas
• Share your dynamically generated budgets with key stakeholders for better transparency
• Take informed decisions with a better overview of the full system

Relevant Disciplines:

• Detailed Design & Simulations
• Project Manager
• Systems Engineer

Confirm full traceability at a glance

• Easily track parent-child relationships also between specifications
• Trace Requirements and their verifications
• Trace Test procedures to their respective requirements

With Valispace

• Find orphans and highlight missing links
• Monitor completion status of your traceability
• Access and share always-up-to-date traceability views with a single click

Relevant Disciplines:

• Project Manager
• Requirements Engineering

Understanding the hierarchy of requirements has never been this easy

• Easily break down your requirements into specifications, groups and organise them in folders
• Benefit from a simple way to link requirements to their parents and children, making actionable relationships for the whole team
• Tag requirements to categorize in detail and easily find them back
• create parameters directly while writing requirement text, and reuse them later in the design phase

With Valispace

• Avoid inconsistencies by having a single repository where all your requirements are always up to date
• Collaborate seamlessly with your whole team from the very start of your project
• Maintain full traceability and history of the structure and breakdown of your requirements throughout your project
• Visualise and understand relationships between requirements easily

Relevant Disciplines:

• Cost Engineer
• Requirements Engineering
• Subject Matter Expert

Create living, dynamic documents to avoid inconsistencies

• Create dynamic documentation directly in our Analysis module
• Build documents with blocks that are quick and easy to add or edit 
• Engineering values such as cost, size, and materials, can be inserted directly into the document and are updated automatically when changes are made
• Include charts, requirements, images, and more within your analysis and benefit from the automatic updates and live data aspect

With Valispace

• Forget copy pasting values in your documents
• Keeping on-top of changes made throughout your project is automatic and data and charts can be utilised when needed without time consuming updating
• Keep your whole team informed about the current status of your project

Relevant Disciplines:

• Documentation
• Project Manager
• Subject Matter Expert
• Systems Engineer

Manage all your test procedures in one place

• Write your test procedures with detailed steps and connect them to requirements for automatic verification
• Start with drafting your procedures and detail them more and more as you go
• Plan your test campaigns and test runs

With Valispace

• Easily manage versions of test procedures without collecting versions of documents
• Get quick overviews and status matrices by having test procedures, requirements and verifications all in the same tool

Relevant Disciplines:

• Project Manager
• Systems Engineer
• Test

Automatically generate your verification status overview.

• Easily set up verifications for each of your requirements and keep track of their status, all within Valispace 
• The status is tracked as well as who verified what, at what time
• Automatically generate an overview of the current status and display it easily to the whole team and stakeholders

With Valispace

Having an overview within your team and for your stakeholders allows you to stay on track with your development

Relevant Disciplines:

• Project Manager
• Systems Engineer
• Test

Easy, real-time access for your whole team

• Get multi-user access to projects and workspaces through the web browser
• Detailed access management is also possible through permissions on specific levels of the project
• Use Single-Sign On for easy user management

With Valispace

• Give access to your whole team, but manage the permissions for individual users or groups
• Personalize via the flexible and adaptable user access management
• Receive easy access to your data through the web browser, even with on-premise deployments

Relevant Disciplines:

• Project Manager

Verify your design automatically and continuously

• Verify your design requirements, such as maximum cost or time of flight, by specifying numerical constraints for each requirement
• Constraints are checked automatically against design values each time a project parameter is changed
• Your engineers or project managers are notified whenever a requirement is out of bounds

With Valispace

• Always know when a design change violates a requirement
• The earlier in the process your engineers know about a constraint violation, the better decisions you can take
• Checking your requirements continuously, instead of only during a review, can save rework and frustrations

Relevant Disciplines:

• Project Manager
• Systems Engineer
• Test

Create baselines and versioning for your design

• Capture a complete overview of your project history with the time machine feature
• Compare your current design to different baselines set at specific points in time, for example during reviews
• Track product versions throughout the development cycle

With Valispace

• The full history of your design is always accessible to the whole team
• Take better decisions by learning how your design has evolved over time
• Create automatic documentation by reviewing and storing baselines

Relevant Disciplines:

• Review
• Subject Matter Expert
• Systems Engineer
• Technical Change Management

View your CAD files directly in the browser

• Upload your .step or .stl files directly to components in Valispace
• The file will be converted to .stl format for browser viewing 
• Explore your CAD model directly in your Valispace browser

With Valispace

• Your engineers won’t need a specialized CAD tool to view the 3D models made by your mechanical engineers
• Open a browser rendering of your models in seconds instead of minutes
• Keep your engineers on the same page with visual renderings directly in the system model

Relevant Disciplines:

• Detailed Design & Simulations
• Subject Matter Expert
• Systems Engineer

A connected database of dynamic engineering values

• Connect all engineering parameters via formulas within Valispace
• Design parameter changes, made by engineers, are propagated throughout the design the full database is re-calculated and dependent values are automatically updated
• Engineers working on the same project will get notified about  any change that is relevant to them

With Valispace

• Connected data means fewer inconsistencies and less re-work
• Engineers work with immediate updates and are not delayed by progress meetings

Relevant Disciplines:

• Detailed Design & Simulations
• Subject Matter Expert
• Systems Engineer

Use all hands on deck including clients and supplier

• Set up read only users for clients & suppliers to review your designs
• Share documentation quickly and easily through the analysis module
• Give your clients as much insight as they need with custom permissions and read only licenses

With Valispace

• Iterate fast and effectively with immediate feedback from team members and clients within the same workspace
• Give visibility to all stakeholders at all times for full accountability and progress insights
• Get continuous feedback to deliver your project better and faster

Relevant Disciplines:

• Project Manager
• Review

Comment on and discuss issues where it really matters

• Comment directly on technical parameters, models, requirements, verifications, and more

• Remain on top of due/outstanding tasks by quickly differentiating between open and closed discussions 
• Full history of comments and discussions provides  traceability and accountability throughout project lifecycles 

With Valispace

• Keep your discussions all in one place and always find them back when needed
• Forget discussions via long email threads or in Word documents
• Remove overheads by combining remote engineering and collaboration in one workspace 

Relevant Disciplines:

• Review
• Subject Matter Expert
• Systems Engineer
• Technical Change Management

Stay in control when different versions of your product designs pop up

• Find out easily how changes affect the overall work/project 
• Manage different configurations in a single model
• make decisions based on consistently up to date project data
• Explore connections in any complex system through an automatically generated Design Structure Matrix (DSM)

With Valispace

• All technical data is available for every configuration, in a single place
• Create new configurations quickly and easily
• New changes propagate automatically to all parts of the project
• Export your Design Structure Matrix (DSM) automatically

Relevant Disciplines:

• Concurrent Early Design
• Project Manager
• Systems Engineer
• Technical Change Management

Define custom verification methods that fit your workflow

• Choose from the default verification methods within Valispace (Test, Review, Analysis, Inspection, Rules) or set up your own custom methods and workflows
• Group and nest verification methods as and if needed.

With Valispace

• Cater the verification process to your project needs, organisation and workflow
• Utilise templates and the flexible structure of Valispace to your advantage throughout design and verification

Relevant Disciplines:

• Systems Engineer
• Test

Immediately see the most valuable project information you want updates on

• Perfect for showing project status and most important KPIs during meetings
• Create the views on projects which are most relevant to you or your team
• Personalize dashboards by adding different types of project data e.g. evolution of a parameter over time, a list of requirements still to be verified or total project cost, etc.

With Valispace

• Reduce the amount of time compiling reports, by sharing a dashboards instead
• Keep yourself updated with the most important project changes
• Keep the team updated and motivated by visualising the evolution of the project
• Benefit from full Data transparency on the most important project KPIs

Relevant Disciplines:

• Project Manager
• Subject Matter Expert
• Systems Engineer

Continuously reviews designs throughout your project

• Comment on technical parameters and design choices directly in Valispace
• Create tasks and action points related to the system model and requirements
• Track your progress with dashboards and the built-in task management system

With Valispace

• Drive your design with continuous and iterative design reviews
• Avoid doing a design review too late in the process
• Make changes to your design early when it costs less 

Relevant Disciplines:

• Project Manager
• Review
• Systems Engineer
• Technical Change Management

Create users & permissions to cater for your project needs

• Create custom permissions for users and groups on each level in your  hierarchy
• Contributors and view only users remain updated and in touch at all times
• During reviews, you can involve contributing members, experts and view only members as needed

With Valispace

• Make sure that everyone on your team has read or write access to the right parts of your project customising everything to your specific needs at the time
• Freeze designs once an iteration is finalized and the product design is fixed

Relevant Disciplines:

• Project Manager
• Review

Full digital systems model in a central repository

• Model your system in a hierarchical tree of components and equipments
• All components contain the technical properties of that equipment, such as power consumption, dimensions, data rates and more
• Model relationships between components, requirements, verifications, to create a fully transparent system

With Valispace

• A digital systems model, or digital twin, ensures that everyone on the team is on the same page
• Waste less engineering hours by running digital simulations and detecting problems earlier in the process
• Ensure a consistent design before starting to build your product

Relevant Disciplines:

• Detailed Design & Simulations
• Subject Matter Expert
• Systems Engineer

Let the world know how your project is going

• Generate reports easily from your requirements list to communicate to those outside your team
• Share live requirement documents for anyone to see
• Export your requirements to .xslx or .csv format

With Valispace

• Save time by creating reports quickly and efficiently
• Fast and easy communication with clients and suppliers
• Requirement reports are automatically kept up to date
• Digital continuity is ensured by directly reusing requirements in any other tool if needed

Relevant Disciplines:

• Project Manager
• Requirements Engineering
• Systems Engineer

Connect seamlessly to  your current tools and workflow

• Valispace integrates with your tools to make full use of all capabilities, at all times 
• With the MATLAB toolbox and Python API you can run external simulations with inputs and outputs directly from Valispace
• With the OnShape (CAD) integration, you can sync your engineering data between the tools

With Valispace

• Your expert engineers working with specialized tools don’t need to worry about running simulations with outdated data
• With workflow automations data doesn’t get lost or become obsolete 

Relevant Disciplines:

• Detailed Design & Simulations
• Subject Matter Expert
• Systems Engineer

Plan projects and find out their status in a single view

• Get live status updates on the state of execution
• Manage the impact of changes on your planning immediately
• Real-Time Collaboration: Discussions, Notifications and Task Management
• Valispace allows for collaborative bottom up planning combined with traditional top down planning
• Connect with other project management tools you already use

With Valispace

• Get fast and powerful planning directly in your technical project
• Always stay up to date with the latest changes in project status
• Save time by collaborating between those planning the work and those executing it

Relevant Disciplines:

• Project Manager

No more copy pasting – start working directly on your requirements

• Use a direct interface by maintaining your requirements in their existing format
• Bring your requirements from DOORS or Excel to Valispace
• Push requirements directly through the Valispace API

With Valispace

• Get rid of mundane tasks and tedious repetitive work 
• Avoid human error in your requirements by no longer relying/depending on copy paste
• Automate your requirements’ input processes

Relevant Disciplines:

• Project Manager
• Requirements Engineering
• Systems Engineer

Integrate with the tools you use every day and create a seamless workflow

• With the Word plugin you can pull data from Valispace to Word with just one click, the same goes for the Google Docs plugin
• The plugins are easy to install and appear either as a ribbon directly in Word or as an Add-on in Google Docs
• By inserting dynamic fields in the document, you just need to hit refresh and the whole document updates with the most recent design values and requirements

With Valispace

• Your otherwise static documents, where inconsistencies are common, become dynamic documents with live data
• Easily fill your custom templates with data directly from Valispace instead of copy-pasting
• These integrations make sure that your documents are always up-to-date – leaving you extra time for what really matters

Relevant Disciplines:

• Documentation
• Project Manager
• Subject Matter Expert
• Systems Engineer

Make informed and documented trade offs throughout your project

• Use alternatives to model different options for your design
• Observe how changes made to technical parameters affect your full system/project directly with automatic propagation 
• Use impact analysis to see how different parts of the system are influenced before taking a decision

With Valispace

• Keep options open for easy comparison throughout your project development
• Benefit from knowing the impact of a change on your full system, including requirements, verifications and testing 
• Make informed and documented decisions on trade-offs

Relevant Disciplines:

• Review
• Subject Matter Expert

Build on top of what you already have

• Import and reuse data to kick-start new projects
• Import project data from Excel files, CAD files or through the Valispace API
• Work while keeping a clear data structure ready to be leveraged in the future
• Create a catalog of your own products ready for reuse

With Valispace

• Maintain a virtual catalog of ‘digital twins’ of all your products
• Maintain your generic model which can be easily differentiated for a large number of copies e.g. for different clients
• earn from past projects and bring that knowledge into new project versions

Relevant Disciplines:

• Project Manager
• Systems Engineer

An easy way to keep your team or customers up to date

• Overview your project status at a glance
• Create modular dashboards with different views and share them for internal or external use.
• Show technical data, timelines or work status

With Valispace

• Never miss out on any updates
• Find out the bottle necks quickly to act upon them
• Easily put together a dashboard to keep your colleagues and customers up to date

Relevant Disciplines:

• Concurrent Early Design
• Project Manager
• Systems Engineer

Truly digital collaboration from your browser.

• Comment, discuss and be notified of the latest developments on your team’s work
• Simultaneously work with the rest of your team directly from your browser
• Be location independent and work together from anywhere
• Set up custom permission settings both within your team and external collaborators, clients and suppliers

With Valispace

• Keep your team flexible: work from anywhere at anytime
• Stay up to date with the latest status updates
• Never worry again about access management: custom permission settings make life simple.
• Communicate directly on project data all in one place
• Easily work together on projects, removing tool complexity

Relevant Disciplines:

• Concurrent Early Design
• Project Manager
• Subject Matter Expert
• Systems Engineer

Capture the evolution of your requirements

• Revisit the evolution of your requirements at any time
• Keep track of changes to requirements and design decisions
• Access and export change logs

With Valispace

• Capture and view clearly the rationale behind changes for years to come
• No more relying on or trusting meeting notes and memory
• Benefit from a full history overview, for complete transparency and traceability.
• Find out who made changes, when and what exactly they entail

Relevant Disciplines:

• Project Manager
• Requirements Engineering
• Systems Engineer

Collaborate and speed up requirements reviews

• Collaborate and review requirements directly inside Valispace
• Both internal and external reviews are possible through detailed user permission settings
• Discuss with all those involved, assign tasks and make decisions
• Always find back what decisions were made
• Be notified about important discussions and tasks assigned through smart notifications
• Save baselines at important milestones to see project evolution

With Valispace

• Reduce the number of meetings to review requirements and speed up the review process 
• Truly collaborate by involving all those needed, both internally and externally
• Easily compare requirements at different baselines 
• Keep a full history of decisions and changes made along the way

Relevant Disciplines:

• Requirements Engineering
• Systems Engineer

Share dynamic documents and avoid resending updates every week

• Just like with Google Docs, you can share documents from the Analysis module quickly and easily
• The documents contain dynamic data, which is automatically updated when your design changes
• With the unique sharing link, your colleagues or customers are informed of the project status at all times

With Valispace

• Keep your external stakeholders up-to-date without having to resend the latest design status
• By keeping your technical documentation centralised within Valispace, you no longer have to rely on several tools and nothing is lost in the process
• By ensuring everyone is automatically on the same page, the focus and effort can shift to the real technical challenges ahead

Relevant Disciplines:

• Documentation
• Project Manager

Keep all your engineering data in a Single-Source of Truth throughout the project lifecycle

• Forgo keeping your dynamic engineering data in siloed, disconnected Excel sheets
• Instead keep a connected database of data to keep your whole team on track, when one value is updated the whole system is automatically updated
• Store a variety of data such as technical parameters, requirements, test procedures, and more

With Valispace

• A truly digital home for your dynamic engineering data
• Always know what the latest, up-to-date design status is
• Keep track of changes and manage your data through iterations
• Track your best practices and who, how and why good decisions and designs were made

Relevant Disciplines:

• Project Manager
• Subject Matter Expert
• Systems Engineer

Not a single update will get lost by notifying the right people at the right time

• Trust that your whole team will always be up to date
• Reduce time spent in meetings sharing updates with each other
• Speed up the overall design process through better communication
• Ensure accountability through ownership assignment on different parts of the data – avoiding island data which nobody is responsible for

With Valispace

• Receive notifications about the relevant parts of the project you are working on
• Rely on automatic notifications to your team instead of manually updating everyone
• Organize personalized notifications both inside Valispace and via email

Relevant Disciplines:

• Project Manager
• Systems Engineer
• Technical Change Management

A light weight task management system without overhead

• Plan all your engineering related tasks and view them in a board (type Trello) or in a timeline view
• Link dependent tasks and track your critical path
• Group tasks in milestones that can be tracked in the timeline
• Valispace ensures tasks are context specific by enabling user assignment and creating associations to items within the design 

With Valispace

• Track tasks throughout design and development in order to work effectively and efficiently as a team
• Organise teams via tasks within the workspace
• Work methodically on big projects via task tracking and management

Relevant Disciplines:

• Project Manager
• Review

Create quick documentation and reports with templates

• Use your documentation with the Analysis module as a template for all your projects 
• Adjust the parameters and values in focus and your documentation is generated and updated automatically 
• Use the Word and Google Docs plugins to create your own custom templates
• Export your finished reports as PDF files

With Valispace

• Re-use your projects and don’t waste time copy pasting text into new documents
• Documentation is always up to date allowing you to visualize data and charts immediately
• Avoid re-writing documentation from scratch

Relevant Disciplines:

• Documentation
• Project Manager
• Subject Matter Expert
• Systems Engineer

Store your test results directly within the test run

• Store single measurements or datasets from longer test runs
• Analyse and compare measurements with your design parameters
• Easily create a data package with all test results and status of your whole test campaign or for a single equipment 

With Valispace

• Store all your measurement data in one place for easy retrieval 
• Generate a complete package of results for your stakeholders in just one click
• Increase transparency and traceability between your design and test engineers

Relevant Disciplines:

• Project Manager
• Systems Engineer
• Test

Always keep an overview of your test campaigns

• Create several runs for different equipment and keep track of versions between the runs
• Easily visualize test run status overviews and details to see the execution of each individual step
• Ensure complete traceability by storing and assigning test engineers and approver with each test run

With Valispace

• Keep track of the status to take informed decisions
• Always know if your test campaigns are on track
• Take early action when test campaign don’t go as planned 

Relevant Disciplines:

• Project Manager
• Systems Engineer
• Test