The System Specification is produced by the Conceptual Design
process of the systems engineering lifecycle and forms the basis
of the Functional Baseline. The System Specification describes the
system's functional architecture.
The System Specification is perhaps the most
important of all systems engineering documents as it is the
source of reference for all future work and documentation. If
complete, unambiguous, etc, it stands the remaining effort in good
stead; if not, errors, omissions, conflicts and so on will
now start flowing into the following systems engineering stages. The
later these problems are discovered, the more expensive and less
likely the rectification
Other topics in our resources on Systems Engineering related to System Specification include: