Consumers today want increasingly smart, efficient and customized products that can be delivered in a timely manner. We are seeing a new product generation emerge across industries, powered by a spectacular innovation wave, including ever-increasing mechatronics, new lightweight materials and digital tech-nologies like the cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT). This additional complex-ity is no longer manageable in a traditional, verification-centric develop-ment process, so manufacturers are deploying new approaches that enable them to predict product behavior on an individual level over the entire lifecycle, including all multi-physics. Test depart-ments are feeling the effects of this evolution in their work, both in volume and technical content. More than ever, they need innovative testing solutions that help them achieve maximum productivity.

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Today’s simulation methodologies often lack the realism to deliver prediction-capable models. Yet those models are essential for complex product develop-ment or for use in embedded software to enable smart behavior. Test departments play a crucial role in filling the current gaps. This goes way beyond measuring accurate data for standard structural correlation and model updating. Testing allows companies to explore uncharted design territories and build knowledge about new materials and all the addi-tional parameters that come with mechatronic components. This requires specialized, high-precision tools. And it adds an enormous amount of validation work for test departments on top of their standard tasks, which already are per-formed under growing time pressure. These include prototype validation and certification.

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