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How to write a Product Design Specification
This guide explains what product design specifications are, why they are important, and how to write one.

Index

  1. What is a PDS and why write one?
  2. Before you write a PDS
  3. Everybody is involved
  4. A PDS can change
  5. 29 Points to cover in a PDS
  6. Examples
  7. References

NOTE: the guide includes links to examples from a PDS written by a group of students who were specifying the design of a lawn-edge trimmer. This is a typical first-time PDS, not an ideal model. The students missed out several sections, and did not put figures on as many of their specifications as they should have done.

Original Guide by Stuart Pugh, edited for www by Andrew Gilling.