CRITICAL DESIGN REVIEW
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The Critical Design Review is one of the major
systems engineering reviews conducted towards the end of Detailed Design
& Development and will normally mark the end of the
activity and the beginning of Construction and/or Production.
There can be
a single system-level Critical Design Review or an individual
Critical Design Review for each configuration item. In practice
a combined approach is used where a review is conducted
for each configuration item and then a system-level review is
conducted to ratify results and address interface and integration issues.
The Critical Design Review evaluates the detailed design effort
and approves the Product Specifications and related products and establishes
the Product Baseline.
The Critical Design Review will also review
discrepancies from the Preliminary Design Review and will assess the
progress of technical performance measures. Looking ahead, the Critical Design
Review determines readiness for hardware fabrication and for software
coding. It is not called a 'critical' review lightly since
any defects in the design at this stage will be
built in the following activities.
All major documentation and plans are
reviewed.
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