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Guide to Requirements Management for Modern Electronic Hardware Teams

Created: March 24, 2025
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This guide is filled with practical information to help electronic teams streamline requirements management, avoid costly delays, and enhance collaboration across hardware development projects using Altium 365 Requirements & Systems Portal.

What's Inside This Guide?

  • Readiness checklist: When is the time to move away from spreadsheets?
  • Best practices for effective requirements management for electronics teams
  • Key use cases of a Requirements Management System
  • Overview of Altium 365 Requirements & Systems Portal
  • ROI calculation examples

Key Benefits of Requirements & System Portal

  • Minimize rework with up-to-date specifications
  • Create clearer requirements with AI automation
  • Manage complex projects with full requirements traceability

Why Engineers Trust Requirements & Systems Portal

The ROI is FAST. We design three to five products a month, and reprints can easily increase our costs by 40%. Requirements & Systems Portal has saved us a lot of downtime in production.

– Samuel Gosselin, Project Manager (R&D & CI) at Memtronik Innovations

Requirements & Systems Portal has been an instrumental tool, allowing us to gather all-level requirements in one database and ensure full traceability throughout the project's life. 

– Faviola Kettig, Systems Engineer at ISISPACE

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