#engineering testing solutions

When it comes to crash testing, precision is paramount, and there's no room for error. Meet the challenge head-on with Titan, a comprehensive end-to-end test management system designed by 12th Wonder. Here's a concise overview of how Titan transforms crash testing:

Streamlined Testing Process:

Titan expedites testing by automating planning, execution, and reporting phases.

Robust scheduling and workflow platform facilitates test requests, resource management, and reporting—all within Titan.

Enhanced Productivity:

Automates and manages the complexity of scheduling resources, facilities, vehicles, and Anthropomorphic Test Devices (ATDs).

Improves productivity in both preparation and analysis phases.

Evolution of Testing Processes:

Adapts to the growing complexity of crash testing processes, eliminating outdated hard-copy checklists and incomplete solutions.

Titan aligns with the advancements in automotive technology and regulatory requirements.

Efficient Test Initiation:

Eliminates email-based test initiation, automating the process and ensuring proper approvals at each step.

Resources, facilities, and equipment are reserved during the automated test request process.

Digital Instruction Integration:

Moves from hard-copy to tablet-based instructions, integrating various sets of instructions seamlessly.

Titan allows summoning relevant test checklists with a click, enhancing efficiency.

Test Catalog Management:

Governs the setup of test vehicles, instrumentation requirements, and ATD positioning data.

Reduces the time required for publishing critical test reports.

Automated Reporting:

Compiles and publishes test reports with a click, minimizing the critical compliance step's time.

Built-in workflow for easy review, approval, and distribution of reports.

State-of-the-Art ATD Management:

Features advanced management for Anthropomorphic Test Devices (ATDs), addressing complexities arising from autonomous vehicles and free motion scenarios.

Standard operational features like check-out, check-in tracking, and preventive maintenance work orders.

Reduced Test Time and Error:

Titan significantly reduces end-to-end test time with automated audit ensuring 100% traceability.

Manufacturers witness improved accuracy in crash testing with Titan's proven capabilities.

Titan stands as a proven solution for manufacturers seeking precision, efficiency, and accuracy in crash testing. Discover the full depth of Titan's impact by exploring the detailed blog on our website. Revolutionize your crash testing processes with Titan—your gateway to unparalleled testing excellence.

Engineering and IT executives are continually on the hook to deliver savings while streamlining processes and improving quality.

An opportunity that guarantees payback is standardizing on specific tools. The return on investment is immense; organizations that have standardized on a single CAD for design, for example, are enjoying the following benefits:

● Game-changing Cost Savings

● Improved Collaboration and Communication

● Consistency and Quality Control

Your company’s myriad engineering testing processes are ripe for standardization. The challenge is HOW?

Titan, the test automation application developed by 12th Wonder, helps your organization win that challenge.

To get started, let’s look at where things stand right now. The testing processes in your organization have evolved organically based on the needs of each engineering team. Even though specific tools are required for each department, it’s likely that the high-level steps are similar. Each is likely to have a test initiation process, each schedules test resources, facilities, and equipment; each follows a test procedure, and each collects data and does reporting.

Next, we need to find a tool that enables standardization. Your organization may be considering the development of an in-house system to manage your testing processes. But starting from scratch can be a costly and time-consuming effort. Even after the development work is done, how current is its capability; who is ensuring that the application can anticipate and adapt to new directions in test life-cycle management? Working with many of the world’s largest OEM’s, Titan continually integrates best-practice features as part of its product roadmap. And of course, issues regarding maintenance, onboarding new teams, and help desk and training are resolved by partnering with Titan.

Titan is designed to automate and manage the following processes:

● Test Scheduling

● Test Planning

● Test Execution

● Risk Mitigation

● Reporting

● Data Control

An investigation as to how each department currently does its testing is worthwhile. Titan can demonstrate how the tool can automate these steps for each individual team.

The next step is understanding how standardization occurs. The organization may select one or two teams to pilot the application. This would involve reviewing teams’ processes, documenting current steps, and transitioning these steps to Titan. Eventually, a process is defined to onboard additional engineering teams into Titan.

But please NOTE: Titan is NOT forcing square pegs into round holes

Each of the functions within Titan has total customization capability; if Team One requires two approvals for test initiation and Team Two requires four, each can be accommodated. If Team One utilizes a completely different set of equipment than Team Two, both can exist within Titan. If Team One prefers to keep processes sequestered in an existing system and Team Two does not, Titan can manage it. The combination of managing the entire test lifecycle and the ability to customize unique group processes is what makes Titan so powerful.

Here are the benefits of aggregating your engineering teams on one platform

● Cost Savings: The elimination of costs and integration issues generated by standalone or home-grown applications. These systems can be subject to platform obsolescence or lack of human support.

● Executive oversight: Managers can now compare apples to apples; they can finally understand and manage test costs of multiple engineering teams.

● Flexibility: Having already interacted with Titan, employees transferring departments can hit the ground running.

● Collaboration: Collaboration and data sharing with other engineering teams via Titan. Contact 12th Wonder today to help your organization calculate the return on investment for test standardization.

Enforcing corporate-wide standardization is a challenge. Over the course of doing business, each engineering department has developed specific testing processes and protocols to meet their needs, processes that often consist of engineers and managers emailing spreadsheets and instructions. Some departments may have the luxury of working within a scheduling system developed in-house or purchased, but these applications only address one or two test request functions (like resource scheduling). Often, the test execution process itself consists of hard copy checklists and instructions.

While each department has its own unique process, the following issues can result in:

Emails for requests or approvals are time-consuming and inefficient.

In email-based processes, the issue often centers around a flood of incomplete emails, creating a challenge in managing test requests.

Absence of standardized test request forms exacerbates the problem, leading to inefficiencies due to varying formats and missing data.

Critical data is stored in spreadsheets.

Maintenance of multiple systems to support each unique process is confusing and expensive.

Engineering leadership can’t make decisions because each team process is different.

So where does the solution with TITAN lie?

Smart Notifications: It transforms email notifications into smart triggers for specific actions, preventing information overload.

Automation Expertise: The platform takes charge of critical functions like scheduling, resource allocation, and progress tracking, ensuring timely and precise notifications.

Efficient Connectivity: Its interconnected system keeps stakeholders informed without drowning them in emails.

Strategic Email Usage: It strategically employs email notifications within an efficient, standardized process, offering well-timed and informative updates.

When leadership recommends standardization to simplify the processes, they may encounter resistance. To make standardization attractive, the organization should provide an incentive, and that’s where TITAN can help. TITAN brings in a solution to engineering standardization by offering streamlined workflows and a vital feature—test templates. These templates ensure consistent testing by guiding engineers to follow established procedures. Engineers select templates tailored to their needs, reducing errors and promoting inter-departmental collaboration. Importantly, these templates enhance test repeatability, no matter the complexity. By incorporating TITAN's templates, you fortify your foundation for efficiency and data integrity, ensuring dependable, accurate results for confident decision-making.

From a forty-thousand-foot level, TITAN recognizes that each department process shares certain characteristics with other department processes:

· The request is made.

· The request is reviewed and approved.

· The test is scheduled.

· Resources are reserved to execute the test.

· The test is executed.

· Results are collected, reviewed, and stored for future use.