Preliminary Extension to Address Law Compliance of Manufacturing Systems

Manufacturing companies that are purchasing softwares have the same legal concerns as the organizations developing softwares, but have less control on the development process. Depending on the situation the manufacturing organization maybe heavily involved in the development or they could only be reviewing the requirements suggested by the supplier. The paper introduces a preliminary extension of SQUARE process to incorporate legal manufacturing (LM) compliance. The next steps would be to use this LM-SQUARE process on actual projects.