Implementation Roadmap

Verification, Conformance assessment, certification, and approval shall be integrated into implementation planning from the beginning.

Every implementation shall maintain traceability from applicable requirements to:

verification methods;

acceptance criteria;

evaluated configurations;

responsible parties;

Evidence;

results;

limitations;

required reverification conditions.

Verification may include analysis, simulation, testing, inspection, measurement, schema validation, manufacturing audit, operational observation, and independent assessment.

Component-level success shall not automatically establish Interface-, Assembly-, Building-, manufacturing-, or operational-level Conformance.

Conformance claims shall identify their exact scope, governing documents, Versions, Profiles, exclusions, Evidence basis, and validity conditions.

Certification shall be used only where a competent and authorized body has formally attested to the declared scope. Internal testing, prototype success, marketplace listing, or a Supplier declaration shall not be represented as independent certification.

Initial implementations may use provisional or limited Conformance classifications where the scope and restrictions are explicit.

Changes affecting geometry, material, manufacturing process, software, Interface behavior, operational state, or safety assumptions shall be evaluated for reverification.

Verification records shall remain connected to the exact configuration that was evaluated. Evidence from one prototype shall not be generalized to materially different Products without justified analysis.