Testing and Validation
Product Testing and Validation for Market Approval
Test programs scoped to the product you'll ship and the markets you'll enter, coordinated with accredited laboratories, reviewed by ORBIS engineers, and accepted by the certification bodies that follow.
The starting point
Most manufacturers don't have a testing problem. They have a scoping problem that shows up as testing.
What testing and validation means at ORBIS
Evidence that matches the product, satisfies the markets, and survives certification.
Testing produces the evidence that a product meets the standards a market applies. Validation is the discipline around it: confirming that the right standards were chosen, that the sample tested is the product that will ship, that the test conditions match what each certification body will look for, and that the resulting report can actually be used for the approvals it was meant to support. Skip the validation and the testing is a gamble. A technically correct report on the wrong configuration is money spent on a different product.
ORBIS Compliance runs testing and validation as an integrated program across safety, EMC and energy efficiency, radio, chemical and electrical, sound and environmental, and component testing. Our engineers own the scope, control the configuration, coordinate the laboratory work, and review every report before it goes to a certification body or a regulator.
The laboratory can be yours or one of our accredited partners. What changes is who's accountable for the plan and the evidence.
The program
How a test program runs with ORBIS
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Scope
The product as built is read against every target market. Applicable standards, national deviations, and required test conditions are mapped, and unnecessary tests are removed.
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Validate the plan
The test matrix is checked against the certification schemes that will consume the reports, so nothing has to be repeated because a body wanted a different condition.
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Execute
Samples, configurations, and firmware are locked. Testing runs at recognized laboratories in the sequence that captures shared evidence once. Status is visible in ORBIS Intelligent Compliance.
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Review and release
Each report is read by ORBIS engineers against the configuration and the certification requirements before release. Deviations are resolved by us, not discovered by the regulator.
Where evidence gets wasted
Four ways a good lab produces an unusable report.
The sample doesn't match the product. A different power supply, an earlier firmware, a module variant, or a missing accessory means the report describes something you won't ship. The certification body notices, or worse, customs does.
The standard doesn't match the market. The lab tested to the edition or method it had, and the target market requires another, or adds national deviations the report doesn't cover. Some markets accept the report with a supplement. Some require a full retest.
The conditions don't match the scheme. Operating modes, cable configurations, load conditions, and worst-case setups differ between certification schemes. A report that's complete for one may be silent on what another requires.
The critical components aren't locked. The report names parts that purchasing later substitutes. The certificate that depends on the report is no longer describing the product, and nobody knows until an audit.
Reuse first
The cheapest test is the one you already paid for.
Before any new testing is booked, ORBIS reviews the evidence you already hold: prior reports, module approvals, component certificates, and work done with other providers. Much of it can carry into new markets and new products, with or without supplements. We tell you what can be reused, what needs a delta, and what genuinely has to be generated. Reports from your existing laboratories can be contributed to ORBIS Cloud with authorized access, so the whole evidence base for a product sits in one place your team can see.
Questions
Testing and validation
Does ORBIS test products itself?
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ORBIS scopes, coordinates, and validates testing through accredited laboratory partners and your existing labs. Our role is the regulatory engineering: deciding what applies, controlling the configuration, sequencing the program, and reviewing the evidence so it works for certification.
What's the difference between this and product compliance testing?
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Product compliance testing is the detailed service page for test management. Testing and validation is the front door: the same work, described for a compliance manager who knows they need testing done right and wants to understand how ORBIS approaches it.
How much testing can be avoided with good scoping?
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It varies by product and markets, and we don't quote a figure without seeing yours. What's consistent is where the savings come from: not testing to standards that don't apply, sharing evidence across markets that accept it, reusing valid prior reports, and not retesting because a report described the wrong configuration.
Test the right thing, once, and use it everywhere it counts.
Bring the product, its configuration, and the markets. We'll tell you which tests apply, which existing reports you can reuse, and how to run the program so every certificate accepts the evidence.
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