Product maturity: from prototype to validation and production
Ensuring successful product development from the first prototype to series production
About product maturity…
Some of Tame-Power’s products may still be at the development stage. With this in mind, and in order to help its customers understand why certain references are not yet certified, Tame-Power has created its maturity scale to contextualise their stage of development and certification.
Product maturity
Description
Features
Validation & qualification
Customer use
A - sample
First prototype
First product integration with limited functionality. First hardware and software version. Non-representative mechanical design.
Concept validation
N/A
B - sample
Implementation of all functions
Representative mechanical design. Implementation of all functions without debugging. First assembly.
Initial product validation (DV)
First prototype. OEM system test.
C - sample
100% representative sample with first test report
Final hardware and software implementation including optimisations and corrections. Final mechanical design. Assembly and testing on the final production line.
Use for product validation and qualification (PV)
Proof of concept and first production run. First test report.
D - sample
100% qualified product
Implementation of all functions. Product tested and certified (laboratory).
Complete validation and qualification. Product ready for series production
Product ready for series production.
All Tame-Power products are at least qualified as ‘C-Sample’, with first test report.
Contact us
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+33 2 51 24 43 66
By email
contact@tame-power.com
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