Project tracking is vital in the digital age, providing real-time visibility into project progress and allowing teams to quickly identify and resolve bottlenecks. This ensures projects stay on schedule and meet deadlines effectively. It also optimizes resource management by ensuring balanced allocation, avoiding overuse or underuse of resources. This leads to cost savings and improves operational efficiency in project execution. In the fast-evolving world of Life Sciences and Engineering, one major challenge is maintaining seamless collaboration and data flow across complex systems and platforms. Shashank Pasupuleti, a Senior Product and Systems Engineer, is at the forefront of addressing these challenges, driving innovation, and ensuring that systems are developed efficiently, compliantly, and with enhanced traceability.
Shashank played a key role in the development of a Digital Continuity Proof of Concept (POC). This effort was crucial for defining requirement-component traceability between Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools. The integration also makes it possible for changes across both platforms to be monitored in real time, enabling engineers involved in change management to receive notifications in real time, while avoiding situations where there are differences between the requirements on one hand and the design changes on the other hand.
He worked closely with with several engineers, overseeing the creation of detailed design frameworks for New Product Development (NPD). A major area of focus was aligning data governance models to system engineering methodologies and ensuring all project data was well-structured, compliant and easily retrievable. His expertise in developing system engineering models for risk, requirements and system architecture has been critical in establishing cross interface relations, producing high-quality projects and systematically addressing the risks throughout a system’s life cycle. Strengthened collaboration across teams led to a 10-15% cost savings and improved project outcomes.
From leading a cross-functional team of six engineers to developing comprehensive design frameworks supporting New Product Development (NPD), Shashank garnered praise for his leadership and technicality. Owing to his work, workflow was refined, by integrating internal tools, reducing manual interventions, and cutting project lead times by 20%. The organization also reported an improved traceability with real-time tracking across ALM and PLM tools, reducing reconciliation time by 30%.
A significant achievement was organizing requirements into models using an internally developed tool, which established a unified framework for how requirements should be stored across different systems. By integrating these systems, Shashank supplemented the management of data and test methods and supported the integration of test protocols and of requirements.
“Although integrating disparate systems posed challenges, they were overcome by designing a seamless data flow and traceability strategy,” he explains. Coordination issues were also addressed by establishing clear protocols and implementing real-time notifications. Furthermore, he ensured compliance with industry standards through a model-driven approach, which effectively mitigated system lifecycle risks.
Looking ahead, Shashank notes, “As systems become more interconnected, focusing on enhancing collaboration tools, data integration, and real-time change management will be crucial to staying ahead of industry trends”. He advises “Practitioners should prioritize the adoption of advanced tools and methods that can unify previously separate processes for a more holistic and streamlined approach to development”.
As industries evolve, Shashank’s forward-thinking approach highlights the need to embrace advanced tools and integrated processes, paving the way for more efficient, reliable, and impactful engineering solutions.
