About System Finder

System Finder provides commands to navigate through RFLP entities and through the implement relations existing between these entities.

It provides the following navigation commands:

• Explore and Explore Advanced: These two commands open one or more selected entities. Optionally, these commands open the RFLP entities implementing or implemented by them. You can open these entities in a new or existing tab.
• Smart RFLP Completion: This command completes in one click a System Finder tab with the entities implementing and implemented by the selected object(s).
• Show RFLP Linked Objects: This command displays all types of links (implement links, structure links, connections and flows/types) for a selected object.

The Impact Graph displays objects related to a selected entity. This allows you to identify the objects that can be impacted by a modification of the selected entity and the objects that can impact the selected entity. The Impact Graph commands are described in the Impact Analysis User's Guide.

RFLP Implement Relations

• Implement relations between roots (references) of the four categories (Requirement, Functional, Logical, Physical) in the tree.
• Implement relations between sub-nodes (and leafs) of the four categories in the tree.
  • Function Implements Requirement: Used to indicate that a function fulfills or respects/verifies a requirement.
  • Logical Component Implements Requirement: Used to indicate that a logical component fulfills or respects/verifies a requirement.
  • Physical Component Implements Requirement: Used to indicate that a physical component fulfills or respects/verifies a requirement.
  • Logical Component Implements Function: Used to indicate that a logical component realizes a function.
  • Physical Component Implements Logical Component: Used to indicate that a physical component realizes a logical component.

Functional and Logical Connection

• Functional Connection relations: explicit exchange of flow between functions.
• Logical Connection relations: exchange of information/data between logical components (through their ports).

2D Layout Representation Association

The 2D layout PLM representation stores information to generate the 2D graph of an entity and to show its children and relation between the objects. Relations are created between the 2D layout PLM representation and the objects displayed in the 2D graph. It is possible to navigate on these links in the Impact Graph.

When detailing the RFLP definition of a product, you are faced with making continuous choices between different ways to implement the product. To avoid wondering why a solution was chosen when reviewing the product later on in time, it can be useful to associate to an element of the model some text or a document (Word, PDF, Excel...) explaining why this entity was added to the product definition.

For more information, see Social and Collaborative | Product Development – Model Based | Collaborative Lifecycle | Document Management | Managing VPM Documents and Documents | Attaching Documents.