Assessment take ownership of your engineering data.

Global companies rarely develop products using a single engineering environment.

Over the years, they grow through acquisitions, new business units, international development centers and the adoption of specialized engineering tools. As a result, product information becomes distributed across PLM systems, CAD platforms, ERP databases and many other enterprise applications.

Each system contains valuable information.

Each system describes the product from a different perspective.

But no single system provides engineers with a complete, coherent and immediately usable view of the product they are developing.

As a consequence, engineering teams spend a significant amount of time collecting, reconciling and validating data before they can even begin analyzing weight, performance, sustainability, cost or any other engineering KPI.

Assessment is the module where engineering teams finally take ownership of their product data.

LIBRA imports engineering information from heterogeneous enterprise systems and transforms it into a single engineering model.

Not a copy of the PLM.

Not another database.

But a dynamic engineering workspace where product information can be explored, enriched, validated and continuously evolved throughout the entire product development process.

Unlike traditional enterprise systems, Assessment allows engineers to work directly on their engineering model without losing traceability to the original sources.

As the product evolves, Assessment preserves the complete history of every engineering change.

Whether a modification affects an entire system, a subsystem, an assembly or a single component, LIBRA records the evolution of the Bill of Materials over time, allowing engineers to navigate every product revision at any level of the hierarchy.

This gives engineering teams the freedom to analyze the product at exactly the level of detail they need, while maintaining complete traceability of every engineering decision throughout the entire development lifecycle.

Another important aspect is data quality.

Information coming from enterprise systems is not always complete, consistent or correct. Missing attributes, duplicated values or outdated information are common challenges in every large organization.

Rather than forcing engineers to work around these limitations, Assessment allows them to enrich, validate and correct engineering information directly within the platform.

Every modification introduced by the user is fully traceable and preserved over time, creating an engineering knowledge base that continuously improves as projects evolve, without modifying the original enterprise systems.

This capability is becoming increasingly important in the era of Artificial Intelligence.

AI can only generate reliable insights when it is built on reliable engineering knowledge.

By combining data imported from enterprise systems with the expertise and validation performed by engineering teams, Assessment creates a trusted, continuously evolving data foundation that enables advanced analytics, predictive models and future AI-driven engineering applications.

With LIBRA Assessment, engineering teams can:

• Import Bills of Materials from multiple PLM, CAD and enterprise systems.
• Harmonize heterogeneous structures into a single engineering representation.
• Automatically generate the best available product definition through LIBRA’s proprietary Envelope algorithm.
• Enrich imported information while maintaining consistency across projects through the Inherit function.
• Simulate KPI evolution using What If analyses.
• Calculate and monitor the Center of Gravity (CoG) directly within the engineering model.
• Freeze engineering baselines while preserving complete product history and traceability.
• Navigate engineering changes from complete systems down to individual components.
• Monitor data quality, subsystem maturity and KPI evolution through customizable dashboards automatically shared via QuickShare.
• Reuse validated engineering data inside Benchmark, Target Setting and company-specific engineering workflows.

Assessment is far more than a repository for engineering data.

It is the environment where engineering teams consolidate, validate and continuously improve the knowledge of the products they are developing.

Because engineering decisions should never depend on fragmented information.

They should be based on trusted engineering knowledge.

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This is the second article in our LIBRA Deep Dive series.

In the coming weeks, we’ll continue exploring how the different LIBRA modules help engineering teams transform complex engineering data into faster, more informed and more confident product decisions.