Use case · Manufacturing & IoT

Hardware, firmware, and software in one lifecycle

Most ALM tools assume everything you ship is software. Oprex projects can be typed as hardware, hybrid, or open — because a device revision and a firmware release are different things that must still be traced together.

What usually goes wrong

  • Firmware tickets and mechanical revisions are tracked in different systems that never agree on a version number.
  • A field failure needs the hardware revision, the firmware build, and the test that should have caught it — three tools, three exports.
  • Suppliers need access to one project and nothing else.

How Oprex handles it

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Project types that fit

Software, hardware, hybrid, or open — the project knows what it is, and the forms adapt.

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Test plans for physical things

Test cases and runs are not assumed to be automated; a manual bench test is a first-class record.

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Suppliers in one room only

Per-project membership means an external partner sees exactly one project — and nothing else.

What the flow looks like

StepWhat happens
Model the productA group for the product line, projects for firmware, hardware, and tooling.
Trace across projectsBug relations link a firmware defect to the hardware revision it affects.
Record every runBench and field tests recorded against the build they exercised.
Release deliberatelyFirmware releases carry their own version and changelog per project.

Bug relations survive access boundaries safely: you can see that a link exists to a project you are not a member of, without seeing what is on the other side.

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