A Process Standardization Approach to Enhance Design Verification

A continuous implementation of verifications during the design process is currently not common praxis in the industry. Verifications of product requirements are realized, but only at certain predefined points of the process, causing iterations that can be redundant and extensively costly in some cases. However, applying verifications at a very detailed level is challenging for various reasons. Often definitions of relevant aspects for verifications like available inputs at a process step, available verification methods or the involved actors are missing. We propose process standardization as a way to bring transparency into the process. Therefore, we developed an approach to analyse the verification methods currently applied for each specific process step. Based on that, standard process configurations can be derived and new verification methods can be assigned. The approach combines the idea of the Stage-gate method from innovation management with a detailed analysis of process steps by an extension of the Business Process Model and Notation nomenclature for process visualization. The result is a profound verification of each step in the design process while maintaining necessary flexibility.     «

A continuous implementation of verifications during the design process is currently not common praxis in the industry. Verifications of product requirements are realized, but only at certain predefined points of the process, causing iterations that can be redundant and extensively costly in some cases. However, applying verifications at a very detailed level is challenging for various reasons. Often definitions of relevant aspects for verifications like available inputs at a process step, availa...     »