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PRODUCT REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION PROCESS IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2021

Dietmar Göhlich,
Beate Bender,
Tu-Anh Fay and
Kilian Gericke
Dietmar Göhlich
Affiliation:
Chair for Methods of Product Development and Mechatronics, Technische Unversität Berlin;
Beate Bender
Affiliation:
Chair of Product Development, Ruhr-University Bochum;
Tu-Anh Fay*
Affiliation:
Chair for Methods of Product Development and Mechatronics, Technische Unversität Berlin;
Kilian Gericke
Affiliation:
Chair of Product Development, University of Rostock
*
Fay, Tu-Anh, Technische Universität Berlin Product Development Methods and Mechatronics Germany, tu-anh.fay@tu-berlin.de

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Requirements engineering and requirements management are essential sub-processes of product development and are an integrated part of virtually all product development models and industrial process descriptions. Proprietary and context specific processes for working with requirements are used in industrial design practice. However, these are not appropriately reflected in existing process models for product development. Existing standards describe the content and generation of requirements documents but not their integration in the product development process.

The study is based on a retrospective analysis of a set of representative real-world product development projects from automotive industry and rail industry. Comparing the processes downstream the milestone “release of PRD”, it was found that subsequent processes to manage requirements and specifications do not differ much with regard to industrial context. Based on this, a model for the product requirements specification (PRS) process is proposed which addresses the gap.

Keywords

RequirementsDesign processProduct Requirements Specification ProcessCase study

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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 1: ICED21 , August 2021, pp. 2459 - 2470
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