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When AI is wrong here, it’s a recall.

AI is moving into the physical and engineering core — quality inspection, predictive maintenance, design and simulation assistance, and the AI shipped inside connected products. When AI affects what gets built and what ships, its errors carry into the physical world and into products in customers’ hands.

AI on the line vs. the regime that governs it
Visionquality inspectionINTERLOCK TRIPPED⚠ Product liabilityPredictivemaintenanceCLEARED✓ Operational reliabilityRobotics& autonomyINTERLOCK TRIPPED⚠ Worker safetyProcess &yield optimizationCLEARED✓ Operational reliabilityEmbeddedproduct AIUNCERTIFIED · EU⚠ EU AI Act · safety componentEngineering &simulation assistantSIGN-OFF BLOCKED⚠ Machinery Regulation

AI runs on the line — and the question every station faces is whether its AI would trip a safety or regulatory check. Illustrative; not a measured result.

Where the risk is

The systems you can’t sign off on.

Each of these decides what gets built or what ships — and none of them is defensible the way it stands today.

  1. A quality-inspection model that passes a defect or fails good units

  2. A predictive-maintenance system whose misses become equipment failures

  3. AI embedded in a connected product, now part of your product-liability surface

  4. An engineering or simulation assistant whose output feeds real design decisions

The regulatory bar

AI in a product inherits that product’s obligations.

Product-safety and liability regimes, sector standards (functional safety, quality systems), and the EU AI Act where AI is a safety component of a product.

And the simple fact that AI shipped inside a product inherits that product’s regulatory and warranty obligations.

What we assure

From the engineering core to the products you ship.

We validate AI across the engineering and operations lifecycle — and assure the AI you ship inside products, where a failure isn’t a screen, it’s a recall.

Across the engineering lifecycle

We validate AI across the engineering and operations lifecycle — wherever it shapes what gets built.

On the operations floor

From the operations floor through quality and connected products — where errors carry into the physical world.

The AI you ship in products

And we assure the AI you ship inside products, where a failure isn’t a screen, it’s a recall.

Validate the AI in what you build and what you ship.

Start with an AI Exposure Snapshot, or talk to us about your specific situation.