anchor: Program officials took steps to ensure that manufacturing aspects of the product were included in the design, including empowering a product leader with a manufacturing background, identifying the key characteristics and critical manufacturing processes early, making design trade-offs to enhance manufacturing capability, and demonstrating a robust design to make the product less vulnerable to variations in manufacturing process.
positive: Program officials took various steps to include manufacturing aspects of the product in the design.
negative: The program officials did not take any steps to ensure the manufacturing aspects of the product were included in the design.