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A prototype is a model of an end or enabling product that is built during the Acquisition Phase to assist in the system design activities. A prototype can be built to assess a new technology or an unfamiliar design or manufacturing technique, to verify or validate a product or component, to assist in eliciting user requirements, to determine suitability of a product, to assess technical risk, to characterise performance of the product, and so on. A prototype can be in a number of forms: mechanical, electrical, software-based, analytical, and so on.


Other topics in our resources on Systems Engineering related to Prototype include: 
 
  • Mock-Up
  • System
  • Non-Developmental Item (NDI)
  • Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS)
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  • System Architects
  • Modular Design
  • Design Constraint
  • Legacy System
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  • Human Factors
  • Interoperability
  • Subsystem
  • Reusability

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