Design Control
Keywords:
- Product Development Plan, inc. Review Gates
- Technical Document Families, Generic Document Types, Scope-carrying Technical Document, Prototypes, etc., per Review Gate
- Specific and Non-Specific Design Control
- Verification & Validation
Background Experience available at Novo Artifact Consulting:
- Responsible for, or at least contributed to, the company’s Product Development Process (PDP), coving Path-to-Part, Path-to-Quality, Path-to-Safety, based on Systems Engineering, Quality Assurance and Product Safety standards [19] [21]
- Further Development of Gate Review Governance (Gate Reviews by type, Pass/Fail criteria, Type of Documents to be presented at Gate Reviews by TDF and GDT) [17] [19] [21]
- Participation in Gate Review Meetings [14]
- Responsible for Scope Management, inc. Technical Scope [19] [21]
- Contributions to Verification and Validation Planning and Processing [14] [19]
GDT: Generic Document Type; PDP: Product Development Process; TDF: Technical Document Family
The numbers in brackets refer to positions as stated in the CV of Hans-H. Altfeld; it can be downloaded from this site under 'About me'
Typical PDCA Content:
CAD: Computer Aided Design; GDT: Generic Document Type; PDCA: Plan – Do – Check – Act; PDP: Product Development Plan; SCTD: Scope-carrying Technical Document; TDF: Technical Document Family; V&V: Verification and Validation

- Product Development Plan, inc Review Gates, Development Phases, and Deliveries at Review Gate by TDF, GDT, SCTD, V&V means (e.g. Prototype), etc
- Establishment of Pass/Fail Criteria
- Verification & Validation Planning

- See -> ‘Program Documents’ (for generation of both, Specific and Non-Specific Design Documents (inc Drawings, CAD models))
- Build V&V means (other than documents)

- Action Management (Processing of Design Chits)
- Processing of Technical Change Control

