zeroing in on a product design

Recently Innogetic has been working hard on the product design details. We came up with an issue with the solar panel size being too large for the current enclosure mold - it would require expensive reworking of the tooling to use. We came up with two options: 1. to reduce the performance specs and use a small solar panel which would fit in the current mold.  2. Design the product in 2 pieces, by seperating the solar panel in it's own enclosure.  The team did a detailed trade-off analysis, and in the end recommended the first option with the small solar panel. They provided analysis that showed the specs would be lower but still acceptable in the user scenario. I agreed with the team and we are able to continue with the development. We now have an electrical and mechanical design to use as our prototype.