Verification. What – precisely – does that mean? For us, it means taking every step possible to make sure that the design of the product will meet performance requirements. And, giving the product design the stamp of quality. Yet there’s more to it than that. It’s about examining the degree of compliance with customer expectations of product performance. In satisfying these, we satisfy the demands of the business case. There are three stages to validation. We listen closely to what you are looking to achieve. We define our extreme users and we establish what validation is necessary for each component. This includes defining the most demanding field conditions for each component and its potential failure modes. We employ our ‘bottom up’ validation protocol to evaluate every component that will make up the completed assembly. In the last stage, we thoroughly scrutinise our findings and check for full compliance with the defined product performance and reliability specifications. So, stage by stage by stage, the validation is completed. Meaning we can give a fact-based forecast of life expectancy . . . and provide you with documentation to prove its accuracy.