General Engineering Introduction/CDIO/Conceive

CONCEIVING AND ENGINEERING SYSTEMS

Setting System Goals and Requirements

Market needs and opportunities

Customer needs
Opportunities which derive from new technology or latent needs

Factors that set the context of the requirements

Enterprise goals, strategies, capabilities and alliances
Competitors and benchmarking information
The probability of change in the factors that influence the system, its goals and resources available

System goals and requirements

The language/format of goals and requirements
Initial target goals (based on needs, opportunities and other influences)
System performance metrics
Requirement completeness and consistency

Defining Function, Concept and Architecture

Necessary system functions (and behavioral specifications)

System concepts

The appropriate level of technology

Trade-offs among and recombination of concepts

High level architectural form and structure

The decomposition of form into elements, assignment of function to elements, and definition of interfaces

Modeling of System and Ensuring Goals Can Be Met

Appropriate models of technical performance

The concept of implementation and operations

Life cycle value and costs (design, implementation, operations, opportunity, etc.)

Trade-offs among various goals, function, concept and structure and iteration until convergence

Development Project Management

Project control for cost, performance, and schedule

Appropriate transition points and reviews
Configuration management and documentation

Performance compared to baseline

Earned value recognition

The estimation and allocation of resources

Risks and alternatives

Possible development process improvements

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