To determine the teams system level design several steps had to be taken.  To design this system, first, a functional decomposition was completed to help identify what this product should do. Then, a morph chart was created in order to identify function based solutions.  Several concepts were pulled out of the morphological analysis.  Some of these concepts had more merit than others but to make sure each was judged fairly the team employed the use of a Pugh chart to aid in the overall concept selection.  This chart features a concatenated list of each of the teams individual selection criteria which were then divided into customer and engineering requirement categories.  Concept one was designed to be flawed and used as the datum from which other concepts could be compared.  Each criteria was given an equal weight to keep the chart simple.  To determine the viability of each concept they were given one of three values : "-, 0, +".  The minus indicated the concept was worse than the control in said criteria, zero showed equality to the control and plus was reserved for those that had better traits than the control.  Whichever concept held the highest positive score would then become the teams' center of focus for designing the system. Based on the charts below three concepts became the leading design ideas. During the next phase this is where our focus will be.

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