When I talk about requirements management for airworthiness and demo CIVIRES, I often get the question: "How does this sit with our PLM?"
Here's my answer. Your PLM owns the design data (parts, structure, configuration) and it might even contain your documents for their entire life-cycle. And it does that well. But it was never built with the mechanics in mind for demonstrating airworthiness compliance. Those are different jobs.
Yes, modern PLM systems offer requirements management; but to bring that module to the level you need for robust and transparent handling of certification projects, you literally have to spend hundreds of thousands of euros and cherry-pick the contractors that support you for that. I know because I have done it.
What about a more cost-effective solution? Compliance lives beside your PLM within a lean, dedicated tool having references into it. In this way evidences can be pulled when and where needed, without trying to replace the system of record.
That's not a limitation. It's two tools doing what each is actually good at.
For the PLM-enabled organisations here: does that match how you see it, or would you push back? We would love to hear form you an dget the opportunity to show you CIVIRES in action, so you can tell if you can see the gap to PLM too!
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