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The assessment of impact on form, fit, and function is commonly used to determine if a proposed change to a part will be "minor", that is, it has no impact on the form, fit, and function, or "major", that is, it does impact the form, fit, function. The F3 rule is at the basis of enterprise material management systems, ERP, Product Data Management (PDM) or Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems.

Form, fit, and function is a phrase often used by world class engineers as undeniable proof that they have exhaustively studied, evaluated, and verified that a subject article will serve perfectly in it'sits intended application. It is not considered a cop out to be used when an engineer has run out of ideas.

==Definition==