Patent ID: 8423390

Claim:
Computer apparatus for managing engineered product revisions, comprising: a repository in memory and holding one or more assets, for each asset the repository holding respective revisions of the asset, different assets forming different engineered products; and a digital processor operatively coupled to the memory and configured to execute a revision manager tracking changes of state made to engineered product assets of the repository, each change of state made to a given engineered product asset resulting in a respective revision of the given engineered product asset, the revision manager configured to enable users to manage engineered product assets and revisions by providing to users a project view illustrating for a set of engineered product assets (i) changes of state of engineered product assets of the set, (ii) resulting revisions of the engineered product assets and (iii) any dependency relationships between the resulting revisions of the engineered product assets, the dependency relationships representing dependencies between the resulting revisions of the engineered product assets.