A trade study is a method for making a decision among competing alternatives. See the instructions within the documentation for details on how to use this tool. See the reference section for details on the methodology and calculations.

Alternatives

Add the alternatives that will be considered in the trade.


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Criteria

Add the criteria that will be used to judge the alternatives, and rate how important each criteria is.


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Value:

Performance

Rate each alternative for how well it performs against each criteria.


Update Performance


Results

Download Inputs File

Save all trade study inputs to a file. You can later upload this file to pick back up where you left off.




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