Experience the future of engineering compliance with Polarion Document Reviews by Avionyx, a custom-developed extension for Siemens Polarion ALM that streamlines formal, checklist-driven peer reviews to deliver high-quality, configuration-managed evidence for regulatory certification. By incorporating checklists, enforcing strict workflows, and streamlining comment management, Polarion Document Reviews enables your team to detect issues early and maintain a centralized source of truth for all life cycle data, tailored to your organization's unique workflow.
Key Features
Customized Workflow Enforcement
Polarion Document Reviews enforces a strict workflow that ensures all reviewer comments are addressed and "Accepted" before a review can be closed. It automatically manages the transition of Work Item statuses from "Draft" to "In Validation" and finally to "Validated".
Real-Time Integrated UI
Beyond offline PDF reviews, the tool offers an Integrated User Interface (UI) within Polarion. This allows participants to perform reviews, create comments, and merge responses in real-time using an HTML-based environment.
Role-Based Access and Independence
The tool dictates specific roles (Systems, Safety, Peer, Verification, Moderator, and QA) based on the checklist type. It enforces independence requirements, such as ensuring the Author cannot also be the Moderator.
Checklist-Driven Reviews
The tool integrates formal technical checklists (e.g., Software, Airborne Electronic Hardware, or Common Engineering checklists) directly into the review process. Each reviewer comment must be associated with a specific Checklist Item ID to ensure comprehensive coverage.
Automated Comment Merging
When reviewers upload their commented PDFs, Polarion Document Reviews automatically merges these comments with all previous uploads, author responses, and status updates into a single consolidated master document.
Universal PDF Artifact Generation
Polarion Document Reviews combines review logistics, checklist questions, and the source document into a single downloadable PDF. This serves as the "source of truth" for the review, allowing participants to add comments and responses offline using Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Specialized Review Types
- Partial Reviews: Allows for sectional reviews of large documents, tracked via Jira sub-tasks to ensure eventual full-document coverage.
- PDF Reviews: Enables the review of non-Polarion data, such as certification plans, procedures, or source code reviews, by using any PDF as the source material.
Key Benefits
Streamlined Compliance and Certification
By producing consistent, configuration-managed review evidence, Polarion Document Reviews directly supports certification objectives. All records of progress, completion, or cancellation are maintained in Polarion for audit purposes.
Efficiency through Automation
Automated baseline creation, comment merging, and status transitions reduce the administrative burden on authors and moderators.
Improved Quality and Early Defect Detection
The disciplined process identifies problems early in the life cycle, which reduces costly rework and schedule overruns later in the project.
Flexibility for Participants
The combination of an integrated UI and optional offline PDF commenting allows reviewers to participate according to their technical environment or connectivity needs (e.g., using "Go Offline" mode to save Polarion licenses).
Centralized Source of Truth
By enabling reviews to take place in the life cycle data's native Polarion environment, the tool eliminates the need for external tracking systems and keeps all data traceable and baselined.
Consolidated Feedback
The Comments Report provides a snapshot of review progress, allowing authors to address feedback periodically and stakeholders to audit completeness at a glance.
Tailored to Your Needs
See something you want to change? Need additional features? Contact us. Our development team can further customize Polarion Document Reviews to match your organization's unique workflow.