Once a project assessment is complete and the project is approved, we work to gather a comprehensive list of requirements your product must meet to fulfill the needs of your customers (as detailed in our Customer Requirements Document).

To do this, we perform a hazard, regulatory, and overall requirements analysis to determine the explicit and implied requirements levied by the Customer requirements. Once the requirements are analyzed and fully documented, they’re tagged so they can be decomposed into functional areas. This process is critical to project success.

Detailed product definition includes analysis and expansion of:

• Customer requirements
• Regulatory requirements
• Safety requirements
• Derived requirements

Project planning is performed with three key items in mind: product requirements, project requirements and design transfer requirements.

The product requirements process focuses on complete and detailed definition of the product.  Our project managers, systems engineers, quality and regulatory experts identify, tag and trace product requirements up front. This allows us to track all requirements into sub-system definition and testing, resulting in a quality product, predictable development costs, and a “no surprises” delivery.

Tools:

• Project Management - MS Project
• Requirements Management - RMTrak, Requisite Pro, DOORS
• Defect Tracking - DefectTrak, PVCS Tracker
• Configuration Control - DocTrak, PVCS Version Manager, RCS, CVS, Visual Source Safe
• Product Test - Custom designed HW/SW for product test, LabView

Project requirements detail the tools we will use, how we communicate, the team structure, roles and responsibilities.

Design transfer requirements consider how the project will transition from development into manufacturing and sustaining engineering. The project outputs must seamlessly transition into your systems and into manufacturing once the project is complete.