Engineering documentation
Engineering processes designed for traceability.
Serious product work produces a trail whether you intend it or not: objectives, dead ends, benches, commits, issues, revisions. Avarix intends it. Structured technical documentation can help clients preserve evidence relevant to eligible Canadian R&D programs, including SR&ED. It is also how you hand a product to a factory, a future hire, or your future self.
Documentary loop
A trail that returns to the objective. Advancement is not the end of the file — it is the next question written down.
- Objective
- Uncertainty
- Hypothesis
- Experiment
- Result
- Iteration
- Advancement
Evidence on file
- Commits and review history
- Test records and benches
- Engineering notes
- Prototype revisions
- Measurements
- Technical decisions
- 01
Technological objectives, written
What we are trying to make true, in language an engineer can test — not a marketing paragraph.
- 02
Uncertainties and hypotheses
The questions that are actually open. The experiments intended to close them. The difference between a known method and a bet.
- 03
Experiments and failed approaches
Benches, prototypes, rejected layouts, firmware paths that did not hold. Failure is recorded; it is often the most expensive knowledge in the building.
- 04
Iterations and decisions
Why the architecture moved. Who decided. What was traded. Issue history and design notes stay near the code and the CAD.
- 05
Test results and validation data
Logs, plots, protocols, and the conditions under which a claim was true. Demonstration and verification are labelled as such.
- 06
Source control and time records
Repositories, review history, and project records that can be reconstructed. This is ordinary professional practice. It is also the spine of a documentary file.
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An engineer will read it. If we are the wrong team, we will say so.