Design Verification
Design Verification

Time-to-market, initial quality, and long-term reliability are three of the biggest competitive challenges in industry today. Innovation raises the risk of reduced quality, so new products have lengthy time-to-market development processes with costly prototyping and rework. Launch too early and revenue is eroded by charge-backs, and long-term market position eroded by reputation. In addition, the cost of finding defects rises exponentially the further you progress through the product and process lifecycle. The fundamental premise of quality planning is to proactively prevent defects by analyzing and controlling for them as early in the product and process lifecycle as possible. By linking design verification into your quality knowledge management and collaboration processes, time-to-market, initial quality and long-term reliability are all improved while reducing costs.

Ultimately, verification happens in three ways:

  1. Leverage the quality knowledge base for critical characteristics, controls, best practices and lessons learned
  2. Best-practice verification and validation processes against your design to test your predictions
  3. Learning from a field failure through root cause analysis and implementing a corrective action

A QLM approach to enterprise quality reduces the occurrence of 3, reduces the need and improves the execution of 2, and allows 1 to drive the design decisions in the most cost and time effective manner. Dyadem’s quality lifecycle solutions ensure you develop a robust knowledge base, allowing good design decisions that are, in effect, validated by prior quality planning efforts. Where there is uncertainty, tests can be defined and linked, allowing full traceability from requirements to design FMEA to design verification. When design or process changes are being implemented, they can be analyzed through design review by failure mode (DRBFM) and design review by test results (DRBTR) activites, with the results again being linked and traceable back to the design FMEA and other related quality planning documents.