Patent ID: 8296169
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer apparatus for managing engineering product revisions, comprising: a repository in memory configured to store one or more assets, for each asset the repository storing respective revisions of the asset, different assets forming different engineered products; and a digital processor operatively coupled to the memory, the processor configured to execute a revision manager and track changes made to a given asset of the repository, each change made to the given asset resulting in a respective revision of the given asset, and the revision manager providing a project view displayed to a user and illustrating in the project view the given asset or at least one of the respective revisions of the given asset, the displayed project view further including performance indicators corresponding to the given asset and the respective revisions of the given asset stored in the repository, there being displayed simultaneously in the project view a different performance indicator for each of the given asset and different respective revisions of the given asset in the repository, each performance indicator as displayed in the project view representing a respective performance rating and implementing an access link to the corresponding one of the given asset and the respective revisions of the given asset stored in the repository, wherein the performance indicators represent performance ratings, different performance ratings having different metrics; and wherein the revision manager further provides in the project view an indication of a change in metric of performance ratings represented by the performance indicators.