04/05/2026 8:10 am
Six-month delays are common — and they always have a cause.
A six-month delay on homologation is not just a planning problem. It is a launch that moves, a customer that waits, and a team that absorbs the pressur
But the same problems appear again and again. Different projects, different products — the same lab failures, the same causes.
When a failure has a pattern, it can be anticipated. The four patterns we see most often are not rare or complex. They are missed because no one looks for them at the right moment — before the design is complete, not after the lab returns the result.
We put this guide together after seeing the same four problems repeat across many co-engineering projects with industrial OEMs. Each pattern has a name, a typical origin, and a point in the design process where it is still easy to fix.
