Distinguishing between Product and Process

Terry Bahill
Systems and Industrial Engineering
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721-0020
terry@sie.arizona.edu
http://www.sie.arizona.edu/sysengr/slides/productProcess.ppt
Copyright © 2003-2004 Bahill

When engineers design a system, they must design both the product and the process that will create it. Accordingly, systems engineers must write requirements for the product and the process. Stating these requirements in separate documents should make it easier to get the requirements right and manage the requirements when either the product or the process requirements change. But of course, these two sets of documents must be intricately interrelated, integrated and produced with extensive feedback loops. This paper shows the results of an experiment that was designed to investigate the difficulty in distinguishing between the product and the process.

Reference: [83]. This overview was designed for hardware and algorithm design engineers. This talk requires a zip disk drive, PowerPoint and a computer projector and/or an overhead projector. This talk takes one-half hour.