A good test program does this:

  1. It asks the right questions.
  2. It fully utilizes in-house resources.
  3. It minimizes extra costs.
  4. It wastes little time.
  5. It generates an outcome that satisfies the test requester's objectives.

SixD's senior engineering consultants and test specialists can help your technical team work systematically through the steps necessary to

  • Identify and prioritize test requester's objectives
  • Make sure planned deliverables will achieve those objectives
  • Resolve questions of precision and accuracy
  • Identify available and necessary hardware
  • Determine critical measurement variables/channels
  • Decide on special gear, special software, fixtures, formats,
    backup plan     
  • Identify safety issues
  • Locate and develop test resources based on budget, timing and availability
  • Schedule hardware, sensors, personnel, facilities for buildup
  • Calibrate, buildup, shakeout .. in lab or in field
  • Document all phases of the test program
  • Pretest, conduct final review, run schedule tests
  • Validate, archive and transmit data
  • Process data for preliminary analysis
  • Analyze results to achieve test objective, for example:
     

 
  • Edit histories and combine events for RPC simulation

  • Extract load cases for FEA correlation or troubleshooting
  • Combine tests to create design load CFDs
  • Extract duty cycles
  • Develop bench test
  • Target setting
  • Benchmarking