Critical parameter/requirements management process and environment

US8145671B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Xerox Corporation · US

Inventors

• Charles D. Rizzolo · Fairport, US
• Ronald E. Stokes · Fairport, US
• Louis F. LaVallee · Webster, US
• Charles M. Gardiner · Fairport, US
• William R. Smith · Mesa, US
• Kathy Cupo · Pittsford, US
• Richard S. Pagano · Webster, US
• Joel S. Cornell · Pittsford, US
• Barry P. Mandel · Fairport, US
• Ralph E. Simpson · Rochester, US
• John T. Potter · Pittsford, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 18, 2011
• Grant date: Mar 27, 2012
• Expiry date: Jan 18, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/018
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A critical parameter/requirements management process model for managing a development program for a product and an associated product structure-driven critical parameter/requirements management tool and environment is provided. In one embodiment, the process includes a product structure classification scheme, a parameter/requirements classification scheme, a parameter/requirements process and maturity model, and in-process and requirements conformance views. In one embodiment, the tool includes a user interface layer, a business layer, a data layer, and a database. The user interface layer may include a product structure feature group, an add/edit/link feature group, a manage maturity feature group, and a manage conformance feature group. The tool may be implemented as a web server accessible to user workstations operating as thin clients. The tool may be integrated with one or more other product development tools, such as a document-driven requirements management, configuration management, manufacturing/production control system, problem management, and phased product delivery process tools.