| Functional Require-ments (Events)
Words | Design Parameters (Idea)
Words & Drawings | Analysis
Experiments, Words, FEA, Equations, Spreadsheets… | References
Historical documents, www… | Risk
Words, Drawings, Analysis…
| Counter-measures
Words, Drawings, Analysis… |
| A list of independent functions that the design is to accomplish. Series (1,2,3…) and Parallel (4a, 4b..) FRs (Events) can be listed to create the Function Structure | Ideally independent means to accomplish each FR. AN FR CAN HAVE SEVERAL POTENTIAL DPs. The “best one” ultimately must be selected | Economic (financial or maximizing score etc), time & motion, power, stress…
EACH DP’s FEASABILITY MUST BE PROVEN.
Analysis can be used to create DPs! | Anything that can help develop the idea including personal contacts, articles, patents, web sites….
| High, Medium, Low (explain why) risk of development assessment for each DP
| Ideas or plan to mitigate each risk, including use of off-the-shelf known solutions |