During the product development life cycle, it's common for different engineering departments across the product development lifecycle to separately wrestle with the same concerns and questions.  These silos slow down the product development cycle and makes organizations inefficient.

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Here's three testing phases that all product designs need to go through to ensure quality assurance for your product. The testing needs of each are highly differentiated as a result.

1. Engineering Validation Testing (EVT) - EVT ensures your product is designed correctly and meets functional intent. 

2. Design Validation Testing (DVT) - DVT tests how well your product will performs over time and through various scenarios.

3. Production Validation Testing (PVT) - PVT is utilized to confirm your end-product, or subassembly DUT, was assembled properly.

Because of these three separate and distinct testing phases, test departments typically only focus on their testing phase only, ignoring or oblivious to others who might be tackling similar problems on the same program. These organizational silos cause lost long-term savings and company-wide efficiency issues.

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• Why organizations benefit from leveraging common platforms
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• The obstacles business leaders face to implementation