Jul 30, 2009 - 
Engineering Decisions, Tips & Techniques 
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Engineering Decisions, Tips & Techniques 2 Comments Feasibility vs. Validation
My dear friend Eric Kam does a great job conveying stamping simulation “geek speak” with his blog.
There has been much talk recently in the industry and online about forming simulation feasibility versus validation.
Reams of paper documents and terabytes of data have been generated by the PhD crowd about this topic.
From the trenches, let me boil it down to its core.
Simply stated, think of feasibility as “make it work”.
Validation can then be defined as “does it work”.
Plain and simple …
feasibility: CAN it be done? Can it work?
manufacturability: Should it be done?
capability: will it get done?
Even validation is still short of my definition of manufacturability as knowing that something “does work” does not tell us if we will be willing to make it work.
i agree completely. validation is theoretical. manufacturability and capability are practical. the “should” and “will” are important and often missing pieces to the equation.