Last seen: Nov 27, 2025
From personal experience, signing NDAs can be nerve-wracking, especially for your first few jobs or projects. But it teaches you the importance of kee...
NDAs have two purposes: to protect the company that issues them, and to guarantee that they can act against the consultant/staff member should they br...
From personal experience, there are a variety of ways to approach such a situation, especially when you need to work with other teams or departments; ...
Mohammad, you provided great definitions for introducing both concepts. I’ll add to your points by explaining how these concepts really pan out in a r...
Design teams might confuse Design Controls and Project Management because they both involve overhead control. Where Design Controls focus on the desig...
FMEAs are indeed a useful tool for evaluating the types of failures a system could experience if one (or several) of its components fail. This is espe...
I believe risk acceptance and its effect(s) are directly tied to the quality of the risk assessment itself, which also affects the form of a response ...
During my time as a co-op at GAF, I have witnessed a variety of hazards that had to be mitigated, mostly within the R&D labs. Each of the labs had...
@shreya This is a great set of ideas to build upon for the complexities of developing & reviewing a potential product, especially regarding livin...
Both processes are necessary to ensure the product pleases two key stakeholders: the company itself and its customers. Maintaining this distinct diffe...
Ideally, you’d imagine companies doing both. They need to fulfill regulatory requirements for the sake of remaining compliant, but they must strive to...
Design teams, from my experience, tend to prioritize the most realistic aspects of a design. The end goal is to meet the customer’s requirements, yes,...
Hi Jacob, you’ve provided a great definition of what makes an effective design input. There’s actually a mechanism that Dr. Simon discussed this week ...
Meeting minutes are a useful tool for logging significant portions of a meeting, especially when discussing subjects such as design reviews/controls. ...