Test and Validation
SiL, MiL and HiL — the earlier you test, the cheaper the fix.
Finding a problem during testing costs a fraction of finding it after installation. Finding it after something has failed in service costs more again — in repairs, downtime and reputation. We run staged testing that starts long before any physical hardware is available.
We cover the full maturity ladder — model-in-the-loop for the control strategy itself, software-in-the-loop for the production code, and hardware-in-the-loop for the real controller against realistic simulated loads, sensors and networks in our dedicated test facility. Fault scenarios, extreme loads and emergency sequences get tried on a rig rather than a vessel — and for projects with functional safety requirements, the same structured testing produces the traceable evidence needed for certification.
The Problem
Some failure modes are too expensive or unsafe to reproduce on real equipment
Fault scenarios, extreme loads, emergency shutdowns, sequences that only happen once a decade — all need to be proven before the system ships, but few of them can be tried out on real hardware in the real environment.
What We Do
Model-in-the-loop (MiL)
Test the control strategy itself against a simulated plant — does the logic do what it's supposed to, and does it handle the edge cases? Done before a line of production code is written.
Software-in-the-loop (SiL)
Run the actual production code against the same simulated scenarios. Same plant, same fault cases, same edge cases — now against the software that will ship.
Hardware-in-the-loop (HiL)
Before anything goes near a vessel, vehicle or production environment, we put the real controller through its paces in our dedicated test facility — connected to realistic simulated loads, sensors and networks.
Functional safety evidence
For projects with functional safety requirements, the same structured testing produces the traceable evidence needed for certification — without bolting a parallel compliance process onto the engineering work.
Get in touch
Talk to us about test and validation
Our Address
Bracken House, 51 BRACKEN ROAD, SANDYFORD BUSINESS PARK, DUBLIN, Dublin 18, Ireland, D18 CV48
