Qualified Activities

Product or Process Concept Creation

Development meetings that generate the new or improved concept, including the involvement from marketing, purchasing, operations, management, as well as engineering
Concept validation through theoretical modeling, computer simulation, or preliminary sketches
Contract a third party designer to identify initial design specifications

Manufacturing efforts in support of new product development
Design and development of unique packaging and packaging systems for all new products or redesign of existing packaging to improve product function, preserve product integrity, increase efficiency, or comply with certain governmental mandates
Certain components of quality assurance such as analyzing experimental samples and developing new product specifications in new product development
Technology used to comply with EPA requirements and environmental remediation
Development of new product and process analytical methods

Analysis generated during trial runs to determine whether the product design is appropriate
Manufacturing of experimental batches and pilot runs for the R&D Department relating to new formulations, new products, improved products, etc.
Trial production runs, including related labor and materials

Creating specialized tools using new technology or developing prototype tooling
Developing specialized machinery or fixtures using new technology
Setting up a new factory or production line where new technology is employed or new manufacturing techniques are used
Use of new technology in a production process to increase the quality of the product coming off the line, or to reduce waste, scrap, spoilage or defects
Using computers or digital technology to perform tasks that in the past were done by humans or were done electro-mechanically or using analog technology
Design and construction of prototype machines
Scale-up design and development efforts
Designing methods and procedures to improve the process of manufacturing or construction

Improvements made to a production process, or to the materials used in a manufacturing process, that result in lower environmental contaminants.
Changing a traditional straight-line production process to cellular manufacturing
Developing computerized product testing
Process changes made in order to utilize improved materials
Process improvements to achieve cost reduction goals
Cross-functional process improvement teams, including production and maintenance employee activities as well as continuous improvement initiatives
Six sigma, Lean, and Kaizen activities toward improving manufacturing reliability and throughput

Modeling object interactions and documenting with sequence or communication diagrams
Identify and document scenarios and run tests to validate scenarios
Model class relationships; associates, aggregations, and inheritance
Add attributes and operations, define directionality and multiplicity of associations, design algorithms, and develop state models
Run unit tests to verify operations, test exception handling
Design and develop through different project development stages; requirements analysis, conceptual design, program design, coding, unit & integration testing, and system testing
Use various development models; Waterfall, V, Prototyping, Operational Specification, Phased Development, and Spiral