Next Design
Next-generation design tool with innovative digital transformation

Next Design V5.1 ReleasedMoving toward a development foundation where humans and AI design together
  • Representing design data
    of development process
    as it is
  • Integrating documentation
    and traceability
    into modeling tool
  • Supporting product line development
  • Extending functions
    flexibly with extentions

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CHALLENGE Issues facing large-scale system / software development

Systems and software are growing increasingly large-scale and complex due to advanced services.
As a result, concurrent development where multiple teams collaborate across companies and departments has become mainstream.
While a top-down development approach—progressing stepwise from overall system architecture to detailed components—is ideal in theory,
in reality, modification and derivative development using a bottom-up approach based on existing assets makes up the majority.

In large-scale development, discrepancies in design data often occur between the ideal "top-down development" and the asset-driven "bottom-up development,"
leading to reconciliation issues across companies and organizations that pose significant challenges on the development floor.

CONCEPT Approach of adapting the tool to actual working process

Next Design is a next-generation design tool for systems and software development.
The 'metamodel', which defines the structure and relationship of design data for each process, and
the 'view definition', which is a diagram and document representation for expressing it, can be adapted to the perspective and use of the development site to create a dedicated design It can be made into a tool.

Conventional method

Database of design data (digital transformation)

Your exclusive design tool without programming

  • Defining features of development with metamodels

    Define the structure and relationships of design information for each phase using class diagrams.
    Materialize designs and processes tailored to each product.

  • Defining various looks of outputs with views

    Define according to design perspectives and the purpose of deliverables.
    You can seamlessly switch the same design data between diverse representations, ranging from Word-like documents to Excel-style grids and diagrams.

    * Patent No. 6847382

Digital transformation

Facilitating the
digitization of design
with metamodels

Unification

Supporting the creation of
a database of design data
from system design to software design

Your exclusive tool with metamodels and views

Leverage your team's strengths while adopting
a design tool tailored to your actual development practices.

Changes automatically followed by other views

When a designer updates the design content,
it is automatically reflected across all related views.
Your design data is always up-to-date, eliminating the risk of outdated information.

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FEATURES Features

Next Design is equipped with a wide range of features to strongly support system and software design.
We introduce its key features, including versatile design representations tailored to your workflow, team development support, and the design traceability required for quality assurance.

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CASEUse Cases

Example on top-down development

By defining the deliverables and their relationships for each phase as a meta-model and assigning appropriate views,
you can achieve highly accessible operations across phases.

  • Requirement development

  • System design

  • Software design

Example on derivative development

It can also be applied to bottom-up development that leverages existing assets and established rules.

  • Metamodeling existing assets and constraints

    Materialize the experience and tacit knowledge locked inside engineers' heads into a meta-model, transforming them into your organization's standard design methodology.

  • Adding plugin for checking violations of development rules

    With the addition of a feature to check for violations of product-specific development rules, you can also detect potential issues lurking in existing assets.

Examples on other designs

  • Showing models with UML/SysML

  • Applicating to process design

    By defining the relationships between the processes and the elements of the deliverables in a meta-model, it can be applied to the design of
    processes, etc.

USER Users

Introducing key companies that have adopted Next Design.

Next-generation design tool with innovative digital transformation

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