The traditional ‘make and test’ approach for new products relies on experience, knowledge and large-scale demonstrators to generate certification data. At best, these are prohibitively costly and time-consuming. For some new products, this approach is impossible. Sophisticated simulation is increasingly being used by engineers in place of expensive physical testing and at the High Value Manufacturing Catapult we are accelerating these certification by analysis (CBA) capabilities to reduce the time to market for new products.