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Engineering Documentation System
The foundation of every engineering project. Lifecycle, revision control, validation methodology and reproducible workflows.
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Engineering Tomorrow.
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Research.
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Design.
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Validate.
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Document.
8design research and development is an independent engineering initiative dedicated to designing, documenting and validating technologies for the future.
We believe engineering is not measured by ideas alone, but by the discipline to transform ideas into reliable, documented and reproducible technology.
Principle 01
Engineering
before Marketing
Principle 02
Evidence
before Claims
Principle 03
Documentation
before Deployment
Principle 04
Security
by Design
Index
Organisation map
The website is organised as engineering documentation. Each section below is a self-contained body of work with its own structure, references and revision history.
Methodology
The Engineering Documentation System
Every project moves through a defined sequence of phases. Each phase produces a documented, reviewable artefact. Nothing is deployed before it has been validated, and nothing is validated before it has been documented.
Read the full specification →- 01Problem definition
- 02Research objectives
- 03State of the art
- 04Architecture
- 05Component analysis
- 06Technical specification
- 07Risk analysis
- 08Validation
- 09Prototype
- 10Roadmap
Collaborate
Open to engineering partnerships
We work with universities, engineering teams, research groups and open-source contributors on long-form technical work. If your problem fits the scope of one of our labs, we'd like to hear from you.