Task: Define Interdisciplinary Interfaces
This task defines the interfaces among the different engineering disciplines (e.g. sw-electronics, electronics-mechanical) and clarifies their structure, information, behavior, and performance.
Disciplines: System Engineering Architecture
Purpose
The purpose of this task is to clearly define the means by which the design elements from different engineering disciplines will communicate and collaborate.
Relationships
Illustrations
Key Considerations
It is important that all the involved disciplines partake in this task or a suboptimal interface will emerge. The interface should include the services, data, physical data schema (where appropriate), constraints, performance, and physical mechanisms of the interface. Engineers should evaluate the interface with careful consideration of adequacy, completeness, performance, cost, and ease of development.
Alternatives
This can be done in a UML Class or SysML Block diagram or in a textual document.