Use this guide to organize a project discussion. Final decisions require the actual product files and approved requirements.
Define the goal
Describe the product, use, market and result that must be protected.
- Separate fixed requirements from preferences.
- Identify the reference that controls approval.
Review the risks
Compare material, forming, finish, quality and packaging as one connected system.
- Record open technical and commercial questions.
- Test the features with the highest approval risk.
Control approval
Link samples, drawings, comments and decisions to the current approved basis.
- Define acceptable variation.
- Replace superseded files and references.
Project checklist
- Current drawings or reference dimensions
- Physical or visual approval reference
- Quantity, timing and market context
- Quality, testing and packaging requirements