Inventors:
Lawrence Ciscon - Houston TX, US
Eugene Giles - Houston TX, US
David Easterby - Kingwood TX, US
Donna Rabalais - Kingwood TX, US
Bernard Barcio - Pearland TX, US
Keith Smith - Houston TX, US
Mary Fuzat - Pearland TX, US
International Classification:
G06F017/60
Abstract:
A system to leverage functional knowledge by a design tool in an engineering project includes a functional knowledge repository created by modeling a plurality of requirements of the engineering project and a requirement and space planning tool interfacing between the functional knowledge repository and the design tool. The requirement and space planning tool includes a requirements wizard to capture the plurality of requirements of the engineering project, a designer graphical user interface to display a preliminary design representing the plurality of requirements and functionality to modify the plurality of requirements, and a design tool interface to transfer the plurality of requirements and the preliminary design between the design tool and the functional knowledge repository.