Cytec can provide skilled and experienced, expert support for your defence vehicle business advising your team and helping you take critical decisions. Our unique skillset and experience can help you prepare and equip yourselves with the information required to create the best vehicle solutions and grow your business.
Technical due diligence
Weaknesses in design can cause exponential damage to businesses. They can result in high warranty costs, loss of reputation and risk to safety. Cytec can help you ensure that your product is fit for purpose by conducting an independent critical review of your vehicle or vehicle system design. We can review your process, approach, theory applied, calculations and design output. We can make an evaluation of weaknesses if identified and recommend improvements. If hardware has been produced and tested we can review test results and analyse failures. Our findings can be documented and presented in a detailed report.
Benchmarking
Understanding how your vehicle or vehicle system compares to competing alternatives is vital. This information can help you with market positioning and structuring your customer value proposition. It can provide insight for development planning or investment decision making and help you identify where you should or shouldn’t play. Cytec can help you by carrying out a benchmarking exercise. We can conduct an independent critical analysis of your product and make a comparable analysis of competing products. We can document our observations and findings and provide you with a detailed report at the conclusion of the process.
Development project structure
Poorly controlled projects can result in late delivery, overspend or output that does not comply with specification. Cytec can advise you on planning of your development project and help you create a logical, structured, phased project plan with key checks, measures and deliverables. We can work with you to help you develop essential project control documents such as requirement specifications, detailed project schedules and financial budgets. We can help you plan engineering, design, analysis, sourcing, prototype build, test and validation. We can help you create a regular reporting structure to ensure that your project is managed and controlled and to create visibility of critical issues.
Test and validation planning
Defence vehicles are highly specialised and are used in extreme environments fulfilling many unique roles. Our team has extensive experience of testing vehicles in some of the most challenging conditions, experience that cannot be found elsewhere. Cytec can advise you on development of test plans, selection of test locations, planning for data acquisition, execution of tests and analysis and presentation of results.