Validation & Prototyping

Today, efficient validation and prototyping processes are much more than mere verification procedures. They form the basis for robust product development and enable requirements to be validated, risks to be minimized, and innovative solutions to be designed even in the earliest stages of development—from requirements analysis to system design to specification.

Our range of research and development services for end-to-end validation of products and systems

We support you and your company during the development process in the early, rapid, and robust validation of product functions and product reliability – from system integration and prototyping to experimental verification. The focus is on conducting substitute tests, experimental assembly and system analyses under multiphysical conditions, and validation and verification processes. Companies benefit from end-to-end support: from development, integration, and prototype production to experimental verification of the function and reliability of their products and systems.

Specifically, the range of services includes:

• Derivation and implementation of hybrid replacement tests for fast and reliable fatigue life validation under multiphysical conditions to validate requirements as early as the concept and design phase.
• Experimental assembly and system analyses under complex loads (e.g., car test bench, air spring test bench, elastomers, wheel and fifth wheel testing) for the development-accompanying evaluation of design decisions.
• Development and application of validation and verification processes with statistical test planning, digital twins of test facilities, and structured data acquisition.
• Integration and prototyping of mechatronic and adaptronic systems, including functional integration, actuators, sensors, and system integration.

Research priorities for more efficient and practical validation processes 

With the aim of making validation processes even more efficient and practical, we are researching new hybrid test strategies that combine real and virtual methods. We develop standardized data pipelines, in-situ evaluation methods, and end-to-end processes to enable reliable verification even for complex mechatronic systems under multiphysical conditions.

Our research topics in detail:

• Development and testing of hybrid, multifunctional test strategies and virtual replacement tests that specifically combine numerical and experimental analyses in order to validate requirements and system architectures at the design stage and make subsequent verifications more efficient.
• Development of data pipelines and in-situ evaluation methods to capture and evaluate test data more efficiently and make it usable for design and validation.
• Design and implementation of end-to-end validation processes for complex mechatronic and adaptronic systems under multiphysical loading.
• Further development of statistical experimental design (DoE) to increase the efficiency and informative value of validation and verification processes as a basis for securing requirements as early as the concept phase.