Web notebooks as a knowledge management tool for system engineering trade studies

We discuss the use of web notebooks as an integrated tool for conducting and managing engineering trade studies. The value of the notebook form is the ability to capture all typical components of an engineering trade study in a common interactive document form. The notebook form can also be displayed in a slide show mode for interaction with decision makers. An example trade is shown to represent the typical trade study components integrated into a single document form. In an accompanying presentation, an actual notebook would be used for the complete presentation. Application of this approach is being pursued as a knowledge management approach to overcome some of the current disparate capture of trade study text and data across multiple tools forms.