Project Management

MDD will develop your project, utilizing proven and validated processes, and standard industry practices . After defining the SOW together with you, we will work out your project per industry methods, fully controlled by our customers.

PDR - Preliminary Design Review

The PDR demonstrates that the preliminary design meets all system requirements with acceptable risk and within cost and schedule constraints and establishes the basis for proceeding with detailed design. It will show that the correct design options have been selected, interfaces have been identified, and verification methods defined.^.

The following are typical objectives of a PDR:

Ensure that all system requirements have been validated, allocated, the requirements are complete, and the flowdown is adequate to verify system performance
Show that the proposed design is expected to meet functional and performance requirements
Show sufficient maturity in the proposed design approach to proceed to final design
Show that the design is verifiable and that the risks have been identified, characterized, and mitigated where appropriate

CDR - Critical Design Review

The CDR demonstrates that the maturity of the design is appropriate to support proceeding with full-scale fabrication, assembly, integration, and testing. CDR determines that the technical effort is on track to complete the flight and ground system development and mission operations, meeting mission performance requirements within the identified cost and schedule constraints.

The following are typical objectives of a CDR:

Ensure that the "build-to" baseline contains detailed hardware and software specifications that can meet functional and performance requirements
Ensure that the design has been satisfactorily audited by production, verification, operations, and other specialty engineering organizations
Ensure that the production processes and controls are sufficient to proceed to the fabrication stage
Establish that planned Quality Assurance (QA) activities will establish perceptive verification and screening processes for producing a quality product
Verify that the final design fulfills the specifications established at PDR.

Prototyping:

Feasibility check of new products, will normally require a Proof of Principle prototype, or sometimes Working Prototype.

A Proof-of-Principle Prototype serves to verify some key functional aspects of the intended design, but usually does not have all the functionality of the final product.
A Working Prototype represents all or nearly all of the functionality of the final product.

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