Design Integrity Concepts

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Design Integrity Concepts
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Unit Agenda

• Consistent terminology, consistent results
• Introduction and definitions
• What does it have to do?
• Specifying the design
• Letting constraints work for you
• Proportional design
• More than the sum of its parts
• Partitioning a design
• You mean were still working on it?
• Sustaining a design
• Whats the exit strategy?
• Verifying a design
• What do you mean, it doesnt do what we thought?
  Validating a design

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Who is this guy?

• John Stone
• Chief Engineer (Department of Space Systems
  SwRI)
• 18 years experience (Exclusively space-flight)
• CDH design (hardware and software)
• Instrument electronics design
• Box-level integration and test
• Hardware project management
• Product assurance (parts, radiation, reliability)
• Process improvement
• Broad interest in improving what we do

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What do we want to accomplish?

• Discuss techniques that may help us to do our
  jobs better
• Based on general principles
• Broad applicability (logic, board, box, system)
• Foster necessary discussion / brainstorming
• To extent possible (as time allows)
• No one person has all of the answers
• Suggestions appreciated