FEATURES Features

Your exclusive design tool without programming

The "metamodel," which defines the structure and relationships of the design information for each process, and the "view definition," which is a graphical and document representation of the metamodel, can be edited in the tool's UI and customized as a non-programmable design tool specifically for the development site.

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Various expressions

Next Design allows you to create a variety of looks for your design information. From Word-like documents, to Excel-like grids, to diagrams that give you a bird's eye view,

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Speedy and intuitive editing

It's the design tool you use every day, so it's important that it's easy to use.
With its Microsoft Office-like ribbon and Word/Excel combined with modelling tools, you can edit exactly how you want.

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Recording traceability while designing

Next Design automatically records traceability between design information.
Traceability, which used to be "something to be ensured", evolves into "something that can be used" to check impacts in real time.

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Reusing designs in product line development

Product line development support function that enables design for multiple products from a single design asset.
It enables centralized management of variable analysis results and design information that tends to be scattered around.

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Supporting large-scale development by team

Supports distributed development with multiple teams across companies, departments and locations.
Configuration management tool integration and multiple file splitting is possible.

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Support for distributed development using Git

Next Design is integrated with Git, a distributed version control system that is rapidly gaining popularity in the development field.
In addition to general operations such as committing and branch creation, 3-way merging when conflicts occur can be operated and executed on Next Design, enabling smooth operation of Git.

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Advanced Review Support

By linking with Lightning Review, a series of activities such as reviewing design information on the design tool, intuitively recording the points raised, correcting the points raised, and checking the results of the correction can be performed in a one-stop process.

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Enhancing functions with developing extensions

By developing "extensions" that can extend the functionality of Next Design, we can automate and link tools to match your challenges.
We will show you various examples of use, from promoting digitisation by importing existing design documents to checking inconsistencies during bottom-up design.

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Automatic document output

The information designed in Next Design can be used to automatically generate documents in Word and HTML formats.
You can also deploy your designs to non-tool stakeholders, such as customers and contractors.

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