Development Roadmap. The Parties will cooperate to develop a product roadmap and associated schedule that reflects the direction and future evolution of the Products and Danger Software. The roadmap may include plans for major releases of, or other modifications to, the Products or Danger Software, such as different industrial designs, cost reductions, and other new features as to which the Parties may mutually agree. Except as expressly provided herein, each Party will be responsible for the costs of its development obligations hereunder.
Development Roadmap. The development of this technology will proceed in a series of logical steps that will investigate the questions of the concept’s technical feasibility and market potential. The results provided in the Implementation section will follow a similar organization. The first concern is to determine if it is technically feasible to develop the necessary hardware with current off-the-shelf technology. Will there be adequate power to support both the eTRU and the shore power connection while the eTRU is in temperature-maintenance mode? It needs to be determined if it is feasible to split the input three-phase power source into single-phase power for the tractor while maintaining the three-phase power supply to the eTRU within Carrier’s acceptable voltage balance operating range. It must be determined if it is feasible for the connection to support input from both the eTRU generator and from a stationary plug-in electrical connection. These questions will need to be carefully considered to determine if it warrants proceeding to the market assessment phase. Assuming the connection is technologically feasible, it will be necessary to verify that a suitable potential market exists and that the technology will be economically competitive in the current TRU and APU markets to warrant further development. The analysis will include an estimate of the implementation costs, for a limited production run and full commercial production, as well as the annual operating and maintenance costs for comparison to current technology. The financial investment required by Carrier to integrate this hardware and capability into the Vector 1800MT™ line will be assessed and be incorporated into the business model development.
Development Roadmap. 1.1. X0.xx will use commercially reasonable efforts to develop and maintain the C3 ReliabilityTM for Oil and Gas pursuant to the Product Statement of Direction attached as Appendix E-1 hereto; provided that, at BHGE’s request and upon mutual agreement (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), the Parties may swap out one or more features for features of a comparable scope, prior to the start of a product specification of a feature.
