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Product development teams are challenged with reducing development cycles, while at the same time facing the prevailing trend for miniaturization of products, growing complexity and increasing level of customization. The demand for robust technical insights, particularly about thermal behavior early in product development, is gaining importance. The risk of noncompliance late in the R&D process is significant, from the potential of delayed orders to increased product development costs.
Simulation tools have become more efficient and computational power has increased, providing remarkable technical insights related to product performance and compliance to accelerate the development time. However, it is essential that the model and its predictions are acceptable for product compliance and its contribution to the certification decision.
UL Solutions allows customers to leverage our expertise to support better decision-making during the product development phase early on, offering an independent model verification and validation (IMV&V) service, integrated in your product development phase, to support regulatory and compliance decisions for your products.
Independent model verification and validation can help you:
- Reduce the risk of noncompliance and consequently the delay of a product launch due to redesigns.
- Gain efficiencies throughout the entire product development process.
- Reduce the number of prototypes.
- Free up laboratory and staff capacities by limiting the number of tests, whether related to the R&D qualification or contributing to compliance/certification throughout the product life cycle.
- Decrease the cost of raw materials and energy.
- Optimize the product development and certification process by introducing a robust verification and validation process for compliance with a specific context of use early in the development process.
Our experts support customers during the verification process, through project scoping, physical validation testing and the final model validation and verification (V&V) leading to the final assessment and issuance of a detailed report contributing to the certification decision. The report summarizes the entire verification and validation process, with specific comments regarding the models’ appropriateness for its intended use, the scope and limitations, potential gaps and how this can be applied throughout the product life cycle.