Violet is a powerful home base for your engineering team and the connective tissue for your data.
From cradle to grave.
Violet empowers your team to:
Integrate data from across your product lifecycle
Sync data between any engineering tool with no-code automations
Execute scripts and simulations that reference real-time data and run behind the scenes when data changes
Ingest existing requirements, or natively build them in Violet, and create smart linkages to the actual associated data and verifications
Create, manipulate and export SysML and OML models
Key Capabilities
Ingest
Violet provides no-code integrations with software tools used across the hardware lifecycle.
Seamlessly ingest data from Requirements Management, CAD, PLM, Modeling & Sim, MES, ERP and more.
Your data is structured and mapped into our internal Violet Data Language as it’s ingested, meaning data is normalized across all disparate tools and formats.
Violet uses a “poll” mechanism and a hub-and-spoke architecture to ingest data from any data source, whether or not it has a webhook. (But we can support those too).
Execute scripts natively in Violet. We support Python, Julia and Matlab via embedded Jupyter notebooks.
Scripts can connect to Violet data at both the input and output. Scripts can be set to run live, meaning they will be triggered to re-run if an input variable changes.
Check out this example of a script calculating a satellite’s Orbital Period using an altitude parameter, and writing the results to a period parameter.
Set up and tailor notifications for only the changes you care about.
Even better, notifications can be sent to Slack (and Teams - coming soon). Build a curated, near real-time news feed of the information most important to you.
Features
Parameters
Establish an authoritative data backbone for your product using Violet parameters.
Parameter values can be populated manually, or you can dynamically link them to real data, like a component mass or a simulation result.
Each parameter contains metadata that enables Violet to reason about it within the system - like units (eg. km) and category (eg. mass).
We are building requirements management that doesn’t suck.
Ingest requirements from connected apps like Jama, Flow or Valispace or create them natively using Violet’s requirements feature.
Violet requirements are math aware and data aware. This means you can:
Define a requirement mathematically, including it’s operator and value (if it has them)
Relate this value to the actual property of the system or component the requirement describes, such as a mass or a performance spec
Link actual verification tests to their corresponding requirements, which automatically surfaces the verification owner, activity and result
With this framework, Violet is able to provide a real-time traceability matrix with no extra reporting beyond the engineering work you’re already doing.
Violet primarily serves as the home base for an “organic” digital thread, where a model of your product is organically built up over time.
Through this, Violet also supports more formal Model-Based Systems Engineering practices, like SysML and OML.
This modernizes the traditional MBSE experience in a number of ways:
Import SysML
Upload a SysML model from Google Drive, Microsoft Sharepoint, or straight from your desktop. The model will be parsed into Violet’s data language and can then be managed as a set of entities with associated relationships.
We support both SysML v1 and v2!
Export SysML or OML
To build a model, first group desired entities using Tags. Then, add in any custom relationships between these entities using Relationships. Last, export the model in your desired format (we currently support SysML v1 or OML) and open the file in your MBSE tool of choice, like Cameo, MagicDraw or Rosetta.
Generate a SysML v2 model in Scripts (Coming Soon)
In Violet’s Scripts feature, you’ll be able to programmatically generate a model using the SysML v2 kernel.
Read more about how Violet supports formal MBSE methods here.
Cool New Stuff
Violet >> Google Sheets Integration
Our Google Sheets integration is live! 😍 Push data from Violet to Sheets to ensure you’re always referencing the live source of truth.
