# Flow Engineering Reviews **Vendor:** Flow Engineering **Category:** [Other CAD Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-cad) **Average Rating:** 5.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 11 ## About Flow Engineering Lightweight agile requirements tracking meets digital twin and MBSE. Flow is a purpose-built to help fast-moving agile teams iterate faster. ## Flow Engineering Reviews ### 1. Legacy tools cannot compete with this! The fastest, most adaptable tool on the market. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jamie G. | Principal Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Flow Engineering?** Wow! Having reviewed most tools on the market, it wasn't difficult to see Flow's value proposition, we needed a tool that is lightweight in operation, adaptable to different projects and integrated quickly with our existing business systems. As part of a growing business our tool also needed to scale with our team and product complexity. Flow Engineering makes requirements management fast and simple. It's feature rich operation with simple UI makes the tool super intuaitive for self-authoring and linking requirements. Simply said, there is not a faster, more adaptable tool on the market that can scale with team size and product complexity. I cannot see how legacy tools can compete with this! **What do you dislike about Flow Engineering?** Honestly not much. As with any new software there occasionally bugs that are uncovered, however the customer support is fantastic. There's usually someone on the case really quickly. The in-app chat window makes it easy and I've seen issues fixed and new SW version updated in minutes. **What problems is Flow Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a growing organisation and innovators in our space, we needed a tool that let us implement and execute quickly, but also scale with the growth of our organisation and complexity of products. Most tools on the market made this difficult with high entry-costs, time consuming onboard and resource heavy maintenance. They were either legacy tools that are too admin heavy for a small scale start-up environment, or PM tool integrations that were too simple for delivering complex products. Flow seems to have striked a balance with a simple UI yet sophisticated features. From initial conversation to being up and running took no more than a couple of weeks and within a month we have managed to transitioned our excel based requirements deck to being fully operational on Flow. ### 2. Best requirements management tool I have found on the market! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thomas A. | Senior Engineer, Aircraft integration and V&V, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Flow Engineering?** Finally THE tool for engineers to quickly and easily manage their requirements (and more)! -The best user experience for this kind of tool: No need for training, easy to deploy, easy to access, nice interface, very fast and responsive interface even with thousands of requirements. - Start small, go big: Easily create a couple of requirements, refine them, allocate them to systems, breakdown systems and refine requirements again and again... using multiple views like table, tree or even systems architecture. - Requirements validation workflow: simply ensure your requirements are always up to date and accepted by owner and reviewers without going through complex processes. - Requirements V&V: link requirements to V&V means like test plan, documents or analyses and automatically update requirement status. - Amazing customer support: responsive support, listen to users feedback, implement features quickly **What do you dislike about Flow Engineering?** - Requirements traceability view between systems needs to be improved in order to better understand how requirements are refined and allocated to systems. - Docx Report generation customization is there but limited in terms of formatting **What problems is Flow Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Flow Engineering helps us define and keep up to date the requirement cascade and allocation to systems for multiple project. This ensure the all engineering knows what they have to satisfy when they are working on a design solution. ### 3. A breath of fresh air when it comes to requirements management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shayne B. | Director of Engineering, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2024 **What do you like best about Flow Engineering?** One of my favourite features is being able to integrate the output from analysis tools. We can now read the output from our simulation code stored in GitHub and use that that to verify performance requirements. The customer support from Flow is incredible. We were set up and running on the platform within the day of our demonstration call. The team behind Flow are one that believe in speed and we have injected that quality into organisation. Our team views Flow as our single source of truth. This has made system development a complete breath of fresh air. **What do you dislike about Flow Engineering?** I have encountered no downsides to using Flow so far. **What problems is Flow Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Requirements management used to be out greatest nightmare. We stored everything in Google Sheets and stuggled to maintain any version control. And then we used Flow. The tool is incredibly intuitive and one that all our engineers love to use. We needed next to no training in order to use Flow. The major upside of using Flow is that we now truly collaborate which has made us move faster. ### 4. Great requirements tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Julia M. | Systems Engineering Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2024 **What do you like best about Flow Engineering?** Flow are responsive to our customer needs and are helping us work through the capability we want from the tool from introducing us to other users to helping us with interfaces with other software tools. Flow is also really easy to use! **What do you dislike about Flow Engineering?** Finding out how you can do something and a particular function within the software is not written up well, however the Flow team are aware on this and building out a bigger and better help function. **What problems is Flow Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows our team to have a central place where all requirements are and they can easily see the interrelation between them. ### 5. The most intuitive requirements tool I've used **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2024 **What do you like best about Flow Engineering?** Flow stands out as the first systems engineering tool our team not only uses but genuinely enjoys. Its user-friendly interface allowed us to start delivering value immediately, with no training required. We had our team fully integrated and productive within the two week trial. What sets Flow apart is its simplicity—tools that are this intuitive are the ones teams keep coming back to. It’s a refreshing alternative to more complex systems like Jama or IBM DOORS. **What do you dislike about Flow Engineering?** Not much, really! If anything, the frequent updates and new features can be a lot to keep up with, but that’s only because the tool is constantly improving. The Flow team is always responsive and helpful whenever I have questions, so it’s never an issue for long. **What problems is Flow Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Flow’s intuitive interface boosts our team’s efficiency and productivity. The real-time sharing of updates and performance metrics helps us stay aligned, allowing us to deliver results that rival larger teams. ### 6. First requirements tool my engineers actually enjoy using **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Flow Engineering?** Flow, compared to other requirement tools I've used, has been flexible enough and customizable to make it fit our custom worklfows. Ease of use and intuitiviness of the UI is lightyears ahead of Jama and alternatives. **What do you dislike about Flow Engineering?** Not much. Have run into a occasional small bugs, but the team has been very responsive in dealing with any issues our team has run into. **What problems is Flow Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Flow as the single source of truth on requirements and verification status. As the only systems engineer in our company, I need to use less time on repetitive work when it comes to maintaining traceability etc. ### 7. Flexible and intuitive! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Flow Engineering?** Modern visualization and impact analysis through system and subsystem levels. Linking between platforms and teams for rapid impact analysis. Flow makes it easy for new users to make meaningful contributions and get results. Best in class customization and customer service. **What do you dislike about Flow Engineering?** Rapid improvement means occasional retraining. Some issues from new or disrupted functionality which are quickly addressed by the Flow team. **What problems is Flow Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Requirements tracking across functional groups and engineering teams. Rapid turnaround for design modification impacts. ### 8. Flexibility without compromising Functionality **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Flow Engineering?** Spreadsheet level flexibility in terms of creating and defining fields to store requirements information, yet in a tool which allows for visualizations, rapid configuration swaps, and analysis tools to quickly run through "what if" and "senstivity analyses" in a way that allows for linking disparate file types. Solves the problem of having to duplicate work within the requirements tool! **What do you dislike about Flow Engineering?** Few downsides from the perspective of a small, agile company. Flow is moving fast to add functionality so occasionally things break when new features are added. But the support is first class and bugs are always fixed as soon as ID'd and raised to team. Far better than working with a stale virtually unsupported SW tool! **What problems is Flow Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows for all of our requirments, design targets, and modeling/simulation data to live in the same environment and be linked. This allows for changes to proliferate through all of the interfacing systems with real traceability, which is generally very arduous in the HW industry and traditionally requires copying and versioning of many documents and spreadsheets! ### 9. Finally a requirements tool that does not waste my time! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Flow Engineering?** Flow is awesome because it is fast and snappy. It requires minimal training and integrates into tools we already use (Jira, for example). Additionally, there are linking features, which allows us to automatically validate and verify our requirements, which is amazing. The collobration and ease of use makes the experience natural and makes the requirements experience not feel laborious. The administration and customized fields also makes the tool so flexible that the software would fit right in for any company. 10/10 product. **What do you dislike about Flow Engineering?** I haven't found any. All of the bugs that I've found have been resolved quickly by their engineering team. **What problems is Flow Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Flow Engineering is solving the requirements tracking mess. There are the big players, who's software is slow, clunky, and very expensive. The newer players have a decent product, but using it can be painfully slow with so many links to click through. Flow is solving these challenges with a simplified, yet powerful approach to requirements that makes things super easy and quick. ### 10. Very easy to do valuable work straight from the start **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andy D. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Flow Engineering?** It's a very easy tool to use, I found myself doing value-add work straight away. I use Flow most days for requirements capture on an automotive project, and it's genuinely pleasant to use. Customer support has been first-rate, with my questions answered and issues resolved quickly. It's a highly capable and motivated team. **What do you dislike about Flow Engineering?** It's not yet fully featured, but the team has already proved its ability to deliver features quickly so I have no doubt things like more powerful querying, document and report generation are coming. **What problems is Flow Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows me to capture product requirements and manage relationships between requirements and tests. ### 11. By far the best requirements tool for mid-sized teams **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Flow Engineering?** I have never ever used a tool before that all my engineers were happy to use rather than having to delegate it to one person to learn the tool and make the updates. The individual teams making their own updates in the tool makes our entire process outside of requirements so much more streamlined. The dashboards within the tool really seem like an accurate portrayal of what is really happening day to day in the team, which I could never have said about any of the tools I've used before (codebeamer, JAMA, DOORS, etc). Dynamic linking across platforms (Flow -> CAD -> Excel / Matlab functions) meant that changes were more easily seen and their impacts on requirements were immediately visible. **What do you dislike about Flow Engineering?** It took a couple of chats with the Flow team before I managed to fully get the Python/GitHub integration working, although some of the people using the files every day had an easier time than me. Adopting Flow effectively required a shift in mindset, but once you get it, it is difficult to go back. **What problems is Flow Engineering solving and how is that benefiting you?** Instant sharing of changes to requirements and performance metrics allow my team to work more efficiently. This enables us to outperform larger teams. The user interface immediately flags any marginal or failed requirements due to design changes. This immediately triggers productive discussion amongst the team that allow us to effectively plot a way forward to resolve issues. - [View Flow Engineering pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/flow-engineering/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-14+13%3A42%3A28+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=12db0a7c-0282-4bac-bea0-636e2a3f66b3&secure%5Btoken%5D=59a65e199ce11b659c3fd45b77cea167cfab03023df62f418f38787a0cf312d2&format=llm_user) ## Flow Engineering Features **Systems Modeling** - Systems Modeling Language (SysML) - Unified Modeling Language (UML) - Model Based testing - Graphical programming - Drag and Drop **Requirements** - Requirements traceablity - Requirements analysis - Requirements priortization **Collaboration** - Distributed use - Stakeholder collaboration **Debugging** - Automatic error list - Breakpoints ## Top Flow Engineering Alternatives - [Epsilon3](https://www.g2.com/products/epsilon3/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (259 reviews) - [LabVIEW](https://www.g2.com/products/labview/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (183 reviews) - [Simcenter Amesim](https://www.g2.com/products/simcenter-amesim/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (112 reviews)