1. Set up the various locks to guarantee project quality assurance

The aim is to understand the quality of product design by introducing quality assurance "locks" into your design project.

Project quality assurance involves controlling physical and information flows through :

• input data (requirements for the product to be designed) ;

• output data (project deliverables).

Project quality assurance also involves controlling the main design project milestones, through :

• planning quality assurance locks ;

• review of input data ;

• design reviews ;

• design verification stages ;

• design validation stages ;

• approval...