Valispace
ValiAssistant, offered by Valispace, is designed to streamline engineering tasks, especially in the realm of requirements engineering. The tool seeks to automat...
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What is Valispace?
ValiAssistant is Valispace's AI-powered engineering assistant that provides assisted engineering capabilities for hardware development teams. It minimizes mundane tasks in requirements engineering by leveraging OpenAI's ChatGPT technology to give instant engineering insights through continuous conversation. The tool helps engineers generate, improve, breakdown, and parametrize requirements, allowing teams to work 10x faster while retaining human oversight of the creative process.
Key features include: Generate Requirements (convert rough component descriptions to formal specifications), Breakdown Requirements (split single requirements into 5-10 detailed ones), Improve Requirements (make requirements unique, precise, and quantifiable), Parametrize Requirements (recognize design parameters with quantities and physical units for calculations), and Valify (create reusable design parameters from requirement text with one click). The assistant can populate entire workspaces with functional/non-functional requirements, components, mass budgets, and performance parameters from a single idea.
ValiAssistant is designed for hardware engineers developing complex technologies like carbon capture machines, hydrogen airplanes, Earth observation satellites, and other innovative hardware products. It serves engineering teams in aerospace, biomedical engineering, and any industry building complex hardware systems. The tool is particularly valuable for teams managing specifications with tens of thousands of requirements who need to find inconsistencies, improve requirement quality, and accelerate design and development processes.
Valispace pricing
Pricing model: Paid
Valispace is priced at $999 per user/year with a minimum of 3 users required. The Enterprise plan is available through contacting sales and includes everything in Valispace plus additional features. A free 2-week trial is available without automatic charging after trial ends. Educational institutions can request an online deployment for $1,000 per year with unlimited students and professors for non-commercial student projects. Requirements Portal (post-Altium acquisition) is available for $995 per year with unlimited requirements and collaborators as part of Altium Develop. Payment methods include credit card, direct debit, wire transfer (Enterprise only), and PayPal. Plans are billed in Euros and USD.
Valispace pros
- Generates formal requirements from rough descriptions instantly
- Breaks single requirements into 5-10 detailed sub-requirements automatically
- Improves hundreds of requirements at once for precision and quantifiability
- Recognizes design parameters with physical units for immediate calculations
- Populates entire workspace from a single idea including components and mass budgets
- Finds and removes inconsistencies in projects with tens of thousands of requirements
- Provides conversational interface powered by OpenAI for instant engineering insights
- Enables engineers to work 10x faster with assisted engineering
- Covers human blindspots through requirement refinement and quality checks
- Helps beat get-started paralysis when beginning new specifications
- Parameters can be reused and referenced throughout the project
- Connects engineering data dynamically to your system instantly
- Beta feature in continuous evolution with improving powers of suggestion
- Browser-based software accessible from anywhere
- Integrates with simulation tools for continuous verification against requirements
Valispace cons
- Currently in beta status, not fully mature
- Focus limited to requirements engineering for now
- Future suggestion powers still being developed
- Requires OpenAI integration which may raise data privacy concerns
- No free version available, only free trial
- Minimum 3 users required for paid plans
- Pricing at $999 per user/year is expensive for small teams
- AI suggestions require human oversight and final approval
Frequently asked questions about Valispace
What is ValiAssistant?
ValiAssistant is Valispace's AI-powered engineering assistant that incorporates artificial intelligence technology inside Valispace to help engineers generate, improve, breakdown and parametrise requirements. It provides a conversational interface powered by OpenAI to give instant insights, allowing engineering teams to work 10x faster while minimizing mundane tasks in requirements engineering.
Is ValiAssistant free to use?
ValiAssistant (beta) is included in the Valispace plan at $999 per user/year with minimum 3 users. There is a free 2-week trial available without automatic charging. The feature is marked as Copilot (ValiAssistant Beta) in the plan comparison and is included in both Valispace and Enterprise plans.
What can ValiAssistant do?
ValiAssistant can: Generate requirements from simple ideas, Improve requirements through refinement and quality checks, Breakdown high-level requirements into lower-level ones, Valify (recognize design parameters from requirement text), Populate entire workspaces with requirements/components/mass budgets/performance parameters, Find and remove inconsistencies in projects with tens of thousands of requirements, and Parametrize requirements with technical values linked throughout the project.
What is the relationship between Valispace and Altium?
In February 2024, Altium acquired Valispace and integrated its technology into the Altium ecosystem. Valispace's capabilities in systems and requirements engineering complement Altium's modern cloud offering for electronics and product design. Requirements Portal was created from this integration and is now part of Altium Develop. Valispace continues to provide its collaboration software on Altium 365.
Does ValiAssistant replace human engineers?
No, ValiAssistant acts more like a co-pilot rather than a replacement for human ingenuity. The approach ensures engineers maintain control over the creative process, leveraging AI for enhanced efficiency and innovation. Valispace emphasizes minimizing mundane tasks while retaining oversight of clever engineers. AI augments human expertise rather than replaces it, with engineers having the final say on all suggestions.
What industries use Valispace and ValiAssistant?
Valispace helps developers of complex hardware technologies including carbon capture machines, hydrogen airplanes, Earth observation satellites, spaceships, satellites, coffee machines, and biomedical devices. It is particularly useful in aerospace engineering, biomedical engineering, and any industry building complex hardware systems that require rigorous requirements management.
Can I deploy Valispace on-premise?
Yes, on-premise deployment is available in the Enterprise Plan. You can contact your Account Manager who will help organize the on-premise installation and transfer of data. Hosting software on your private cloud is also possible and considered as on-prem in enterprise plans.
What integrations does Valispace support?
Valispace supports tool integrations including Python, Matlab, MS Word, MS Excel, Satsearch, and Solidworks. It also has a Python/Octave Scripting Interface and can connect to simulation tools for continuous verification of design against requirements, closing the feedback loop rapidly.
Is there educational pricing for Valispace?
Yes, professors and students can request an online Valispace deployment for their institution with full feature access. For a fixed price of $1,000 per year, you can add as many students and professors as needed for non-commercial student projects (no company-paid research) or for teaching purposes. Contact the Sales team to learn more.
What happens to my data after the free trial ends?
Only users added to your deployment have access to your data. If you wish to sign up for a Plan, your existing data will be automatically transferred to the paid deployment. If you do not sign up and want your data deleted, send an email to the Customer Success team. You will not be automatically charged after 2 weeks.