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Presentation Laces Standards Manager
Understand the capabilities of our Laces Standards Manager in just a few minutes. This video walks you through the features and benefits of the all-in-one solution for managing standards. Key Learnings: Watch our presentation: Are you ready to take the next step? Ready to see how the Laces Standards Manager can work for your organization […]
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How to Create Reusable and Software Neutral Smart Standards
You shouldn’t be spending your time manually scanning PDF after PDF, hunting for standards, specifications and requirements to copy and paste into your software applications, like systems engineering or requirements management software. This kind of approach can only lead to inconsistencies and redundancies. Not to mention the vast amount of time and resources wasted just […]
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Structure, Link, and Reclaim Control Over Requirements
In today’s complex engineering landscape, clarity is non-negotiable whether you’re working on a new satellite platform, an electric vehicle, or a regional water system. The systems we build are more complex, integrated, and dependent on data than ever before. And yet, one of the most critical ingredients for success, the specification, is still too often […]
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Extracting Specifications from Documents: Manual vs. NLP-Based Extraction
Extracting, interpreting, and applying specifications from technical documents, like standards, contracts, or regulations, is often a necessary but painstaking part of project or product management. Traditionally, this has been done manually, but recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have opened up new, intelligent alternatives. In this blog, we’ll explore the differences between manual and […]
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What is the difference between Ontologies and Object Type Libraries (OTLs)
In today’s data-rich environments, organizations face growing pressure to improve their information management and data exchange. Two essential concepts that support this are Ontologies and Object Type Libraries (OTLs). Both are foundational to structuring and standardizing data. While they have different emphases, they are not opposites. Instead, they often work hand-in-hand. Understanding their roles and […]
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What’s Inside an Object Type Library? Understanding OTL Contents and Scope
When you first hear the term Object Type Library (OTL), it might sound like a technical catalog or something buried deep in the domain of data specialists. But a well-defined OTL can make life easier for everyone who works with data, especially those designing, building, or maintaining complex systems. From engineers and asset managers to […]
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How to Extract Specifications From Documents and Get Them Into Any Requirements Management App?
Traditionally, organizations have relied on document-based specifications stored in Word files, PDFs, or spreadsheets. While this approach offers flexibility and human-readability, it also introduces inconsistencies, outdated information, and inefficiencies. It’s time for a change. Our experts have created a white paper that discusses moving from document-based to model-based specifications while also providing practical tips on extracting specifications from […]
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Presentation Laces Ontology Manager
Understand the capabilities of our Laces Ontology Manager in just a few minutes. This video walks you through the features and benefits of the all-in-one solution for creating, structuring, and navigating your ontologies. Key Learnings: Watch our Presentation: Are you ready to take the next step? Ready to see how the Laces Ontology Manager can […]
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From Spreadsheets to Smart Requirements: A Model-Based Approach
In Requirements Management, professionals across various industries often face the challenge of dealing with time-consuming, repetitive tasks. These tasks typically involve scanning PDFs for requirements, updating spreadsheets, and reformatting information to fit into requirements management applications. This process is prevalent in infrastructure, energy, aerospace, and manufacturing sectors, where complex specifications are the norm. The Shift […]
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From Documents to Libraries: The Case for Specifications
Standards are crucial in ensuring consistency, safety, and compliance across industries. According to ISO, “A standard is a document that provides requirements, specifications, guidelines or characteristics that can be used consistently to ensure that materials, products, processes, and services are fit for their purpose.” However, managing specifications from these standards often remains a document-heavy process, […]
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What is Intelligent Requirements Management?
Laces is a software suite for all AECO professionals working with requirements. It consists of diverse apps that form a toolkit for Requirements Management. But what is Requirements Management, and why should you manage it intelligently? Defining Requirements Management Requirements Management is an established practice in fields like software development and systems engineering. Despite its […]
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The Power of Laces For Collaborating
Collaboration is essential for achieving success, as no company, team, or professional can operate in isolation. We are all part of networks with stakeholders—such as partners, suppliers, contractors, clients, and regulators—each contributing to shared goals. Efficient collaboration is especially important in industries like infrastructure, energy, shipbuilding, and aviation, where projects are large, complex, or often […]
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Smarter requirements for MBSE [5 steps to a model-based approach]
Systems Engineering is a multidisciplinary and integrative management approach to system development. When we add formal (digital) representations of a system to the approach, we talk about Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). These digital models are made of structured data, preferably interchangeable between software. Although the term model focuses mostly on geometric data and data for […]
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Why to use Laces for Publishing Data
With the infinite number of ways that professional content—such as product information, company standards, metadata, and classification systems—is used today, you need to take control by becoming publishers of high-quality data. It needs to be structured, easily accessible, and reusable by both people and machines. After all, like it or not, professionals are judged not […]
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What is Master Data, and Why is the Need to Manage It Growing?
Master Data is a authoritative source of common data that is distributed across communities and their applications. It provides the background for transactional data about physical assets and serves as the foundation for the information necessary to run a business […]
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Interoperability is Gaining Traction as Data Sharing Evolves
In basic terms, interoperability is the ability of computer systems to work together. This means that they can connect to each other, understand each other, and seamlessly communicate and exchange information. This creates the conditions for effective data sharing between systems. However, to do this, it is crucial to ensure that all the systems and […]
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Avoiding Pitfalls for an Object Type Library (OTL)
An Object Type Library (OTL) is a standardized framework that improves communication between different parties and their software systems, making data exchange easier. While there are many benefits, you need to model an OTL correctly to use them for their intended purpose. This requires the right people, tools, and resources. This article discusses pitfalls that […]
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What’s new in the Laces Apps (March 2024)
The March Laces Apps release is here: version 12.0! This month, we’ve introduced three changes in the new version of the Laces Apps. Beyond constantly improving Laces in its functionality and scope, these three updates are based on user feedback. This time, we’ve been working on improving features like importing remote source links to your […]
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The value of an Object Type Library explained
Business success depends heavily on the ability to interpret large amounts of data and effectively use it. The first step towards this is about accessing ‘structured data’. However, since businesses and their software usually communicate as isolated islands, information is difficult to (re)use and exchange. An Object Type Library (OTL), also known as Reference Data Library […]
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5 Use Cases Of Laces Ontology Manager
Organizations in the built environment are constantly exploring the potential of automation for reducing costs and increasing productivity. One of the recent developments is that organizations are leveraging an ontology to streamline operations and improve efficiency. Such ontologies are rapidly becoming foundational in enabling informed decisions in the modern business landscape. Ontologies are formal representations […]
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5 Types of Data Standardization Using Linked Data
The exchange of information between computers is essential for facilitating collaboration and streamlining processes across different stakeholders. For this to happen, computers must agree on how to interpret data, just like humans need to understand the language, vocabulary, and grammar used in a conversation. To interpret data, software requires uniform data, and data can only […]
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What is a Knowledge Graph?
Nowadays, the term ‘knowledge graph’ is used by many in many different ways. To make things worse, there are all sorts of associated terms to describe the concept, like ontology, property graph, and semantic networks or nets. A commonality is that knowledge graphs have to do with structured data and the specific structure of graphs. […]
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What is FAIR data?
What does FAIR stand for? FAIR is an acronym for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. These topics are relevant to those wishing to reuse their data and have machines automatically find and process their data to help people do so. The authors published the ‘FAIR Guiding Principles’ (for scientific data management and stewardship) in Scientific […]
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Laces Actively Involved in ILS Configurator
Suppose you work with several engineering parties on a large construction, like an office building. And for this, you have to share information from multiple sources. How do you do that efficiently? In information delivery specifications (ILS), we lay down agreements that define which person transfers which information in which way. To draft and assess […]
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Less manual work in exchanging requirements
Our client makes extensive use of standardization regarding requirements. These requirements were …
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Time saved by using a Reference Data Library
In its role as purchaser, our client deals with a wide variety of chain partners. Data is exchanged …
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