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The Five Biggest Challenges in Creating Statements of Requirements for Engineering Teams
If you work in engineering, you don’t need anyone to explain what a statement of requirements (SoR) is. Every new project, whether it involves a bridge, tunnel, road expansion, or water facility, begins with the same process: collecting all requirements, structuring them, validating them, revising them, and ensuring that no critical requirement is overlooked. SoRs […]
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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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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 While this approach offers flexibility and human-readability, it also introduces inconsistencies, outdated information, and inefficiencies.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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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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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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New Year, New Tools: Time to Get Rid of Text-Based Requirements
As we step into the new year, it’s time to rethink old habits—starting with how requirements are managed in engineering and construction projects. If your team still relies on lengthy PDFs or static spreadsheets to define project needs and develop project briefs, you might be missing opportunities to deliver exactly what your clients ask for […]
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Case study – Requirements Management for Civil Engineering
Have you ever wondered how you can improve your requirements management process? This white paper is for all Project managers, Tender managers, Requirements managers, Technical managers, or Design engineers who want to know more about: Find out more about how you can structure requirements management and drive value and efficiency. You will also see some […]
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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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Presentation Laces Requirements Manager
Understand the capabilities of our Laces Requirements Manager (previously the Laces Contract Manager) in just a few minutes. This video walks you through the features and benefits of the all-in-one solution for managing requirements. Key Learnings: Watch our Presentation Are you ready to take the next step? Ready to see how the Laces Requirements Manager […]
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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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Why You Should Use Laces to Simplify Verification and Compliance
Verification plays a critical role in industries where precision, safety, and accountability are non-negotiable, whether you’re designing infrastructure, building vehicles, or manufacturing medical devices. Yet, for many teams, managing the verification process is still a complex, manual, and error-prone task. This is where the Laces Requirements Manager comes in. It simplifies the planning and execution […]
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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