Smart design: Towards product certification by analysis
We are leading a project to tackle barriers and help accelerate ‘certification by analysis’ capabilities in the UK
Harnessing the potential of digital
Digital technologies and simulation techniques offer significant opportunities to optimise physical testing within existing certification frameworks.
Validating complex net zero products
Accelerating pathways to certification is critical to the commercial viability and early introduction of net zero generation products that will be manufactured and designed in entirely new ways.
Driving innovation in certification
The traditional ‘make and test’ approach may no longer be the optimum choice. Increasing complexity and the pressure to keep costs and development times competitive demand a review of regulatory and certification frameworks.
The problem with physical testing
A physical ‘make and test’ approach relies on experience, knowledge and large-scale experiments and demonstrators to generate certification data – but in most cases these are prohibitively costly and time-consuming.
In fact, this approach is impossible for some new products.
Towards certification by analysis
We are leading a new project to tackle barriers and help accelerate ‘certification by analysis’ capabilities in the UK – bringing together an expert team from across manufacturing. Representatives from industry, regulators and universities are working together alongside our own experts to lay the foundations for the future of ‘certification by analysis’.
The Towards product certification by analysis project will help address the challenges of digital certification, including:
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Get involved
If you would like to find out more about the project, or provide a ‘best practice’ use case on certification by analysis please contact HVM Catapult, email digitalengineering@nccuk.com
