Nor was a common start or end point identified for design review.
"We actually had them into the design review, and we've never done that before," he added.
The product developer held a major design review in 1997.
At the 1999 critical design review, the estimated development and production costs totaled $2.82 billion.
At the critical design review, only 21 percent of a product's engineering drawings had been completed.
A contributing factor to this was a lack of understanding about the full requirements for the new system at the critical design review in 1997.
Nor was a common start or end point identified for design review as an element of the facility acquisition process.
Among other things, our help includes energy audits, assessments and design reviews.
As of December 2001, the estimated development cost was $26.1 billion, a 34 percent increase since the critical design review was held in 1995.
Near the midpoint and end of the semester, students present their work in a design review to professional engineers.