Product Engineering is the discipline responsible for planning, developing, validating, and technically monitoring a product from its conception to its mass production.
It operates at the interface between R&D, industrialization, testing, purchasing, quality, and the final customer, ensuring that the product is functional, manufacturable, testable, reliable, and competitive.
Product engineering ensures that what has been designed can actually be produced — and with quality.
🧩 Responsibilities of Product Engineering
| Area of expertise | Practical examples |
|---|---|
| Technical design | Specifications, electrical schematics, mechanical layouts |
| Validability | Definition of tests, tolerances, simulations, certifications |
| Industrialization | DFM (Design for Manufacturing), DFT (Design for Testability) |
| Testability | Interface with test engineering to define coverage and fixtures |
| Traceability | Nomenclature, versions, batches, documentation |
| Customer support | NPI support, resolution of technical issues, customizations |
⚙️ Tools and methodologies used
- CAD/CAE/ECAD (e.g., SolidWorks, Altium, EAGLE, Inventor, Catia)
- FMEA, DFMEA, DVP&R, PPAP
- Thermal, structural, electrical simulations, signal flow
- Requirements vs. tests matrix (coverage matrix)
- Version and document management (PLM)
🔧 How AJOLLY Testing supports Product Engineering
AJOLLY Testing acts as a technical partner for Product Engineering, especially in the stages of validation, testing, industrialization, and continuous improvement.
🧪 Technical validation and testing
- Development of test systems aligned with the validation plan
- Functional, electrical, firmware, environmental, and sensory tests
- Creation of technical reports, compliance evidence, and traceability
🛠️ Design for Testability (DFT)
- Project analysis to facilitate production testing
- Proposal of adjustments in connectors, signals, physical access, and measurement points
- Integration of EEPROM, identifiers, LEDs, and feedbacks for self-identification
🔁 Support in NPI and production
- Monitoring of pilots, initial batches, and industrialization
- Analysis of recurring field issues and feedback to the project
- Interface between the R&D team and production focusing on quality and yield
With AJOLLY Testing, Product Engineering is enhanced with testing, validation, and automation resources, ensuring that products move from concept to reality — with reliability, quality, and traceability.