Verify your design works, before you commit to tooling.
Design verification, sometimes called engineering verification, is how you make sure the design is right before tooling makes it expensive to change. Engineering analysis, simulation and structured testing that prove it performs, survives real use and meets its safety and compliance targets, while fixes are still cheap.
If you're about to commit to tooling
"The design looks right on screen, but will it actually hold up in the real world?"
"Is it safe and compliant, or am I about to fail certification and lose months?"
"Where are the weak points, and how do I verify the parts I can't physically test?"
Verification answers these with evidence, before the design is committed to tooling. A problem caught in analysis might only take a few hours to fix, yet the same problem caught after tooling means expensive and slow tooling changes, and caught after launch it can mean a product recall. Finding these things early, while they're still cheap to fix, is critical for a successful product launch.
A design verification plan, curated and completed
The spine of the service is a design verification plan: a document that sets out exactly what needs proving and how. From there I run the analysis, simulation and testing to see what passed and what failed. I then pull everything together into reports you can act on and take to suppliers, partners or certification.
Design verification plan (DVP)
The plan that defines every requirement the design has to meet and the test or analysis that it needs to pass. It becomes the shared reference for you, me and your suppliers.
Simulation & analysis
Hand calculations and simulation, structural (FEA), thermal, fluid (CFD) or tolerance analysis, to predict how the design performs. Designed to find the high-risk areas that need robust testing and to suggest design changes.
Testing & specialised testing
Physical and user testing, run by me or coordinated with accredited test houses for performance, function, UX, safety, EMC, environmental or lifecycle work, written up as test reports.
User testing & iteration suggestions
Depending on how you work, I can provide design iterations. Either way, prioritised suggestions will be in the report.
Deliverables include:
- ✓ Design verification plan (DVP)
- ✓ Simulation reports (FEA, CFD, structural and thermal)
- ✓ Test reports
- ✓ Specialised testing, coordinated with accredited test houses
- ✓ User testing
- ✓ A prioritised list of iteration suggestions
- ✓ Design verification summary report
Standalone verification or integrated
Free intro call
You tell me the product and where it's headed. I tell you honestly what's worth verifying, and confirm scope and price before anything starts.
Review & analysis
I work through the design against its requirements, produce a design verification plan, then run the basic calculations and simulation and map the failure modes, building an honest picture of the performance.
Testing against the verification plan
We prove the critical claims with specialised testing and simulation, either in-house or coordinated with specialist labs for safety, EMC, environmental or lifecycle work.
Report & recommendations
Everything written up, the plan, the results and the evidence, as well as a prioritised set of changes, with design refinement work or suggestions offered.
Clear on both sides
What you bring
- → A design or prototype, CAD, drawings or a working sample. The more defined, the sharper the analysis.
- → The product requirements: what it needs to do, and any standards or targets it has to meet.
- → The decision it's feeding, tooling sign-off, certification, an investor milestone.
How I work
- ✓ Robust, rigorous, systematic analysis and testing, so the requirements are tested in full.
- ✓ Analysis and testing used to reduce risk and inform design refinements.
- ✓ Happy to work under an NDA from the first conversation.
- ✓ Findings explained in plain terms, with the trade-offs made explicit.
Before you book
One phase of the development cycle
Verification is often a stage in a longer path, and sometimes repeated over design refinement cycles. If you'd rather have one person carry the product the whole way, from idea through to a design that's ready to manufacture, this is one of the phases inside full Product Development. Either way, the verification work stands on its own.
Make sure it's right before you commit to tooling
Book a free intro call and tell me about your project. We'll work out what's worth verifying and how, and I'll scope and price it before anything begins.