A supervisory tool for evaluating designs

The modern design supervisor needs a variety of effective management tools which free him from detailed design direction, yet capitalize on his experience. The author presents such a tool, a new ordering scale — weighted specification reference — and compares it to other ordering scales. The technique is flexible enough to include only a few factors for simple designs, or it can be computerized to include many factors of a complex design. A simple design example is presented to demonstrate the use of the technique.