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Polarion ALM-PLM Integration

Engineering end-to-end quality across electrical, mechanical and software systems, Polarion creates a cohesive product ecosystem. It provides multi-directional linking of ALM and PLM data and processes, helping product development organizations align seamlessly across disciplines.

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Benefits of ALM-PLM integration

ALM-PLM integration provides comprehensive visibility across all assets, enabling engineers to quickly search and locate critical information throughout all lifecycle phases. This technology accurately links firmware with hardware while ensuring full traceability, which reduces time wasted on manual searches and prevents costly errors that could damage both products and reputation. The integrated approach enables effective collaboration across globally distributed units, supporting maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) teams in quickly locating parts and managing defect fixes. By streamlining these processes, organizations reduce inoperative time of broken products and minimize operational disruptions, delivering measurable improvements in efficiency and cost control.

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End-to-end quality across electrical, mechanical and software systems

Over 10 billion microprocessors are produced annually, with 95% deployed as embedded components across nearly every industry. As IoT adoption accelerates, the need for connected, cross-system product development has never been greater.

Traditional tooling keeps mechanical, electrical and software development siloed, separate PLM and ALM platforms create costly disconnects, rework, delays and product safety risks. Polarion bridges that gap with a unified, cohesive ecosystem that links ALM and PLM data bi-directionally.

Based on over a decade of research, Polarion has identified 5 incremental levels of ALM-PLM integration, a taxonomy customers use to assess their needs and invest in the right solutions.

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ALM-PLM User Experience

  • Maintain meaningful relationships across applications, no migration, duplication or aggregation
  • Automatically create domain-relevant correspondences, no forced PLM concept migration
  • Orchestrate existing workflows, instead of migrating them
  • Provide the required data and relationship authoring/viewing functions to the engineers from their applications
  • Expose personalized, domain-relevant content, without data overload.
  • Capture and automatically create relationships along engineering activities without manual maintenance

Capabilities of ALM-PLM Integration

ALM-PLM integration requires careful planning and coordination, but delivers significant value. Development teams work hand-in-hand, innovating with shared goals, delivering what customers want with the efficiency and quality that leaves competitors behind.

Level 1: Link and trace

In Polarion ALM-PLM integration, the capability of creating a physical or logical relationship between ALM and PLM data assets is called a Link. Trace denotes the ability to navigate this relationship automatically.

Level 2: Change and propagate

At this level ALM-PLM manages the impact of design changes down the development and production chain, and vice-versa. It also enables a failure of the related hardware or software components to be traced back to the elements that could have caused such failure.

Level 3: Act and communicate

At this level, we achieve the integration of processes. Examples of this integration will be task assignment, progress control, and project management.

Level 4: Align and unify

At this level, software concepts like releases, branches, baselines and parameters are aligned to their product-specific counterparts to establish unique, combined configurations. At this level, we also support the unification of the User Experience (UX), allowing users to work in their preferred and familiar development tools.

Level 5: Collaborate and report

At this last level, engineers from multiple disciplines are able to collaborate and merge their areas of expertise to develop an optimal, multi-system solution. Process improvements are driven by metrics dashboards that provide a unified view of project status and enable users to quickly identify bottlenecks and issues and implement effective mid-course corrections.