Standard Controls Product Specification

This is how a Standard Controls Product Specification should be built. See (------) for template.

Background

The background shall explain the situation from a higher level and why the product is needed.

It shall clarify how the build-up is divided into different areas and what is covered by the document.

Change history

Shows a list of editions and each change.

Definitions

The document shall explain how a demand designated and how a requirement is designated, usually designated: 

  • (D) – demand. Must be fulfilled.
  • (R) – requirement. Negotiable. Required but not to any cost. Feedback usually required about consequences.

General

  • Introduction

The purpose of the introduction is to explain the context in which the product is applied.

  • Product description

Environmental and external interface requirements

  • Orientation and nomenclature
  • Identity
  • Environmental constraints
  • Physical constraints
  • Mechanical interfaces
  • Electrical interfaces
  • User interfaces

Usage

  • Intended and foreseeable misusage
  • Mounting
  • Configuration
  • Installation

Performance requirements

  • General
  • Lifetime
  • Maintenance and service level

Function requirements

  • General

Design requirements

  • General

Other requirements

  • Delivery form from supplier
  • Regulatory

Contains information of which regulations/directives/standards or parts of the listed that apply.

  • Testing
  • Packaging
  • Spare parts

Optional requirements

The chapter specifies optional equipment, accessories or functionality.



Success factor: The document shall be used for product verification

Guidelines:

  1. The document shall be equipped with page and row-numbering.
  2. A row shall contain max one parameter.