AU3/Systems engineering · Interface compliance

Interfaces that agree with each other.

Integration failures are rarely about components. They are about two teams holding two versions of the same interface. ConnectorIQ models interfaces as first-class objects and checks both sides against the definition, continuously.

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CONFORMANCE MAP LIVE MODEL each cell checked against definition
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The problem today

Why this is still hard.

Three failures show up in almost every organisation we have looked at. None of them are solved by adding another dashboard.

01

The interface exists twice

Each side documents its own view, and the mismatch is discovered on the test bench.

02

Definitions drift silently

A pin reassignment or unit change propagates through emails, not through a controlled model.

03

Compliance is checked late

Interface verification happens when hardware exists, which is the most expensive possible moment.

Structure

What changes

TODAY — FRAGMENTEDCONNECTEDSupplier ICD (PDF)Internal harness sheetProtocol wikiChange emailsInterfaceSignalConstraintConformance

The same facts. The difference is whether they are connected.

What is coming

Three things it does differently.

Definition

One controlled interface

Signals, pins, protocols, units and tolerances defined once, versioned, and owned.

Conformance

Both sides checked

Implementation and consumer definitions validated against the controlled interface automatically.

Change

Consequence made visible

Every interface change lists what it breaks before it is released.

Where we are

Early, and deliberately so.

We would rather build this with a small number of organisations that have the problem badly than launch broadly and guess.

Now

Design partners

Working directly with a small group to shape scope against real data and real constraints.

Next

Private pilot

A narrow, instrumented deployment on one site or one programme, with success defined up front.

Then

Wider availability

Opened up once the pilot proves the model holds outside the environment it was built in.

Early access

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