A PC-based tool for crew system design

The Crew-Centered System Design Process (CSDP) provides on-line, electronic guidance in identifying, planning, and performing tasks for crew system design and qualification. The CSDP is a systematic, thorough and inspectable process for crew system development, for use by crew system specialists in the aircraft industry and government System Program Offices and laboratories. It covers Concept Exploration through Engineering and Manufacturing Development, including the activities performed in each phase. It lists the products prepared or reviewed during each activity and provides a description of each product. Each activity is linked to predecessor and successor activities, yielding a process that even an inexperienced user can apply easily. The CSDP integrates guidance from three primary sources: (1) the Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) System Engineering Master Schedule (SEMS); (2) detailed activity descriptions documented by Boeing under the Cockpit Automation Technology program; and (3) Veda´s knowledge and experience gained under this and other programs. Best of all, the process can be customized. Users can add their own best practices and lessons learned, patterning them after the examples furnished with the initial process. The CSDP offers a well-founded, logical process that will evolve as its users devise more efficient and effective approaches to meeting future crew system design challenges