Exponent

Gain evidence-based insights and expert guidance to understand complex challenges, manage risk, and make informed decisions.

Gain the technical clarity to validate AI, address risks, and make confident decisions about safety- and performance-critical systems.

Improve battery and energy storage performance, reliability, and safety with technical guidance and testing across the product lifecycle.

Strengthen security and resilience across physical and digital systems, prepare for disruption, and gain clear analysis to address cyber risks and incidents.

Helps data center teams make informed decisions, manage risks, and build and operate reliable, high-performing facilities as demand grows.

Gain clear, objective technical analysis and expert advice to navigate complex disputes in courts and global arbitration forums.

Helps chemical-sector organizations address product, operational, regulatory, and environmental challenges with science-based support across the chemical lifecycle.

Improve product performance, durability, usability, and safety with scientific and engineering support across the product lifecycle.

Improve electronics performance, reliability, and safety with multidisciplinary expertise and clear answers across the product lifecycle.

Improve manufacturing safety and performance with science-based assessments, investigations, and recommendations tailored to industrial operations.

Navigate product development and regulation, assess health impacts, and use rigorous evidence to support market access and better-informed healthcare decisions.

Get evidence-based technical insight to improve software performance, strengthen security, investigate failures, and evaluate technology claims.

Get tailored evidence and data to support better product decisions, regulatory approvals, safety assessments, and investigations.

Access and synthesize reliable, specialized information to support informed decisions and complex client engagements.

Make complex scientific and engineering findings easier to understand with accurate visuals, animations, and physical models.

Move innovation forward with timely research, custom testing, and multidisciplinary expertise tailored to complex product and technology challenges.

Improve product design, usability, performance, and safety with objective analysis and tailored multidisciplinary expertise.

Use scientific analysis and testing to evaluate product risks, guide recall decisions, and develop corrective actions that help protect customers and reputation.

Scientific and engineering consulting

Exponent provides multidisciplinary scientific, engineering, and management consulting to help clients address complex technical, regulatory, and operational challenges. Its consultants conduct objective analyses, investigations, testing, and evaluations; identify the causes of failures; assess risks and impacts; and provide evidence-based insights and guidance for decision-making. Services draw on expertise spanning more than 90 technical disciplines and are delivered across industries and project lifecycles.

• Combine Expertise To Solve Complex Challenges
  Teams draw on a wide range of scientific and engineering disciplines to develop tailored analyses and solutions for complex, multifaceted challenges.
• Make Decisions With Evidence-Based Insights
  Independent, evidence-based analysis helps clients understand technical issues and make informed decisions, including in high-stakes situations.
• Identify Causes And Prevent Future Failures
  Detailed investigations help clients understand failure mechanisms and contributing factors, assess consequences, and identify corrective actions or ways to reduce the risk of recurrence.
• Validate Findings With Testing And Inspections
  Custom testing, laboratory analysis, and onsite inspections provide data and evidence to evaluate products, equipment, sites, and failures.
• Quantify Risks And Guide Mitigation
  Scientific risk assessments help clients understand potential hazards and consequences, prioritize concerns, and identify strategies to mitigate risks to people, assets, and the environment.
• Navigate Technical And Regulatory Challenges
  Specialists help clients understand regulatory requirements, assess technical questions, and plan or support compliance activities.
• Address Challenges Across Project Lifecycles
  Clients can access scientific and engineering guidance from early planning and design through operations, incident response, and decommissioning.
• Communicate Complex Findings Clearly
  Clear explanations help clients and legal stakeholders understand technical evidence and the implications of expert findings.

AI consulting

Exponent provides engineering and scientific consulting across the AI stack, from system concepting and model validation to infrastructure scaling and failure investigation. Its multidisciplinary experts help clients assess AI system safety, security, trust, and performance; validate systems with rigorous technical insights; and make informed decisions about safety- and performance-critical deployments. Support includes technology, transportation, life sciences, and utilities.

• Navigate The AI Lifecycle With Technical Clarity
  Get engineering and scientific support from early system concepts through model validation and infrastructure scaling, with help investigating failures when they occur.
• Strengthen Confidence In High-Consequence AI
  Use science- and engineering-based insights to address AI risks and support decisions where safety, trust, security, and reliability matter.
• Validate Models, Code, And Data Pipelines
  Assess AI models and the systems around them using code, data pipeline, and ground-truth validation to inform decisions about system reliability.
• Investigate AI Failures And Clarify Causes
  Understand AI system failures through technical analysis that clarifies causes and supports decisions about corrective action.
• Apply AI Expertise To Sector-Specific Challenges
  Address AI challenges in technology, transportation, life sciences, and utilities with support that reflects each sector's engineering, testing, safety, and regulatory considerations.
• Bring Multidisciplinary Expertise To AI Challenges
  Draw on engineering, scientific, and industry expertise to examine complex AI challenges from multiple technical perspectives and provide evidence-based insights.

Batteries & Energy Storage Consulting

Exponent provides multidisciplinary consulting on battery and energy storage technologies throughout the product lifecycle, helping clients address performance, reliability, and safety. Services include battery design and safety assessments, failure investigations, custom testing, risk and recall support, vendor and supply chain evaluations, and technical advice on intellectual property. For battery energy storage systems, Exponent supports testing, deployment, maintenance, grid integration, field investigations, and practical operating procedures. Its work spans applications from medical devices and consumer electronics to electric mobility and grid-scale storage.

• Assess Battery Design And Safety
  Evaluate battery design, performance, quality, and safety against relevant requirements and industry standards.
• Identify Battery Failure Causes
  Determine why battery failures occurred and identify opportunities to mitigate contributing risks.
• Manage Battery Risks
  Assess battery risks, support corrective actions, and use monitoring and tracking tools to follow product performance and safety over time.
• Support BESS Lifecycle Operations
  Get support for testing, deployment, maintenance, grid integration, field investigations, and practical procedures for long-term battery energy storage system operation.
• Support Safer Product Responses
  Evaluate foreseeable use and misuse, assess relevant requirements, and support incident prevention, response, and recall matters.
• Evaluate Battery Vendors
  Assess cells, design and construction, and manufacturing-line quality to inform evaluation of battery vendors and manufacturing partners.
• Test Battery Safety And Performance
  Use custom testing to evaluate battery safety and performance and support industry certification needs.
• Strengthen Battery Supply Chains
  Evaluate potential manufacturers and suppliers and help trace quality concerns across complex battery supply chains.
• Address Medical Battery Safety
  Assess battery selection and application-specific risks, conduct abuse testing and failure analysis, and support regulatory needs for medical device batteries.
• Inform Battery IP Decisions
  Apply technical expertise to intellectual property and trade secret matters involving the battery supply chain.

Cybersecurity Consulting

Exponent provides cybersecurity consulting for safety-critical and regulated environments, helping organizations build resilience into physical systems and respond to cyber risks across the product lifecycle. Services include security engineering, threat detection and response planning, cybersecurity assurance cases, operational technology security, technical forensics, zero-trust architecture assessment, IoT security analysis, and security testing for RFID and other devices. Exponent applies engineering and forensic analysis to identify vulnerabilities, support compliance, understand incidents, and strengthen systems.

• Integrate Security Across The Product Lifecycle
  Build security into product and system decisions throughout development and operation, identify vulnerabilities before exploitation, align security architecture with industry standards and regulations, and establish governance and lifecycle controls.
• Harden Operational Technology Networks
  Assess OT networks and their physical-system dependencies to identify vulnerabilities, reduce the potential for high-consequence events, and support operational continuity during attacks.
• Prepare To Detect, Respond, And Recover
  Develop organizational capabilities and defense-in-depth strategies that help clients respond to evolving threats, maintain critical operations during disruption, and recover.
• Demonstrate Security Assurance With Evidence
  Create rigorous documentation and scientific evidence that supports cybersecurity governance, regulatory compliance, and deployment readiness for systems in regulated industries.
• Determine Root Causes And Strengthen Systems
  Gain clear, rigorous analysis of cybersecurity incidents that can withstand legal and regulatory scrutiny, reduce uncertainty, support claims and investigations, and guide measures to help prevent repeat incidents.
• Identify And Prioritize Cyber Risks
  Understand system assets, vulnerabilities, threats, and attack surfaces to prioritize risks and guide security controls across enterprise IT, operational technology, and sensitive data.
• Validate Zero-Trust Architecture And Controls
  Evaluate the implementation quality of zero-trust deployments and document how identity, access, segmentation, and device-trust controls perform, including in safety-critical and regulated environments.
• Analyze Security In Connected Devices
  Examine the security of connected products and devices to help clients understand potential vulnerabilities in technologies used across consumer, industrial, and medical settings.
• Assess Data Center Security Dependencies
  Examine the facility systems and digital controls that support data center operations to identify vulnerabilities, strengthen resilience, and help protect infrastructure used by mission-critical systems.
• Test RFID Security Against Attack Methods
  Test physical and digital security controls in RFID devices and identify weaknesses that can inform improvements to device and program security.
• Evaluate Security Device Durability And Reliability
  Assess security devices and smart cards for durability and reliability using analysis, testing, and non-destructive failure analysis methods, including ISO- and ANSI-compliant testing services.

Data center consulting and engineering

Exponent supports data center developers, hyperscalers, and power generators from planning and construction through operations. Its multidisciplinary teams combine engineering, scientific analysis, and failure insight to identify risks, streamline decisions, and help plan, build, and operate high-performing facilities as loads grow. Services address construction, power and utility constraints, electrical and cooling reliability, performance, supply chains, materials risks, and environmental stewardship.

• Manage Construction Risks And Schedules
  Get technical support for site decisions, permitting, project monitoring, schedule and cost analysis, and power interconnections throughout complex data center builds.
• Strengthen Electrical Reliability
  Identify vulnerabilities across power systems and components, assess requirements and compliance, and support uninterrupted mission-critical operations.
• Optimize Cooling And Manage Thermal Risks
  Evaluate cooling performance and technologies, investigate related failures and fires, and assess heat-reuse strategies to support safe, reliable facility operation.
• Predict Reliability And Optimize Energy
  Use predictive models to interpret complex data, identify site-specific risks and bottlenecks, and support reliability and energy-use decisions from planning through operations.
• Evaluate Power Options And Infrastructure
  Compare power generation options and assess infrastructure risks and performance to inform project decisions across the energy lifecycle.
• Identify Failure Causes And Improve Reliability
  Apply multidisciplinary failure analysis to understand incidents and system performance, support response decisions, and help address reliability risks.
• Improve Storage Safety And Integration
  Assess battery storage design, safety, reliability, and integration with on-site generation to support resilient, compliant data center power systems.
• Evaluate Vendors And Trace Failures
  Use independent evaluations, testing, and supply chain tracing to assess suppliers and investigate the causes and scope of product or component issues.
• Assess Environmental Impacts And Compliance
  Evaluate resource use and environmental impacts, address permitting and water-quality issues, and support sustainability goals and reporting requirements.
• Anticipate Materials Degradation
  Evaluate material durability and damage mechanisms under relevant stresses to help identify risks that could affect data center reliability.
• Assess Supplier Quality And Operations
  Review suppliers and production processes to identify quality, efficiency, operational, and safety risks and support manufacturing partner decisions.

International dispute resolution

For over 50 years, Exponent has provided independent, objective expert advice to clients involved in dispute resolution around the world and across international borders. Its experts analyze complex technical issues central to claims and draw on experience in courts of law and global arbitration forums. Services address matters including construction defects, energy disputes, engineering standards of care, failures, intellectual property, life sciences, machinery and equipment, and quantum and delay.

• Clarify Complex Technical Claims
  Objective analysis helps clients understand the technical issues central to claims and make informed decisions in complex disputes.
• Navigate Global Legal Forums
  Experience across international courts, arbitration forums, and mediation supports clients involved in disputes across borders.
• Address Complex Technical Questions
  Teams combine expertise across disciplines to investigate complicated technical issues and provide insights tailored to the dispute.
• Assess Project Standards Of Care
  Assessments help clients examine whether appropriate standards of care were followed throughout project phases and investigate causes of cost overruns or delays.
• Evaluate Construction Defect Claims
  Engineering assessments clarify technical issues in construction projects, including defects, specifications, and the respective roles of contractors and owners.
• Identify Failure Causes
  Failure analysis helps clients understand why an incident occurred, assess damage, and identify contributing factors in high-stakes disputes.
• Determine Why Equipment Underperformed
  Technical investigation examines equipment requirements, installation, manufacturing, and testing to establish why performance expectations were not met.
• Analyze Intellectual Property Claims
  Technical analysis helps clients understand the underlying technology and address claims involving patents, trade secrets, software copyright, and licensing.
• Support Cross-Border Life Sciences Disputes
  Technical and regulatory analysis, expert testimony, and independent assessments support life sciences disputes involving products, suppliers, and business activities.
• Quantify Delays And Financial Claims
  Schedule and quantum analysis helps clients assess project delays, production inefficiencies, additional costs, and financial damages.
• Evaluate Machinery And Equipment
  In-depth analysis of equipment and operational data helps identify performance issues and assess their possible technical causes.
• Analyze Energy Dispute Issues
  Specialized technical analysis addresses disputes involving energy production, resources, operating practices, and failures in energy infrastructure.

Chemicals Consulting

Exponent provides multidisciplinary consulting across the chemical product lifecycle for manufacturers, registrants, distributors, and retailers. Its experts support chemical safety, efficacy, regulatory compliance, product and process performance, supply chain evaluation, and responses to recalls, litigation, and other challenges. Services include regulatory guidance, toxicology and risk assessment, chemical formulation and process optimization, supply chain assessments, chemical data analysis and modeling, and investigations of chemical incidents and environmental contamination.

• Navigate Global Chemical Requirements
  Get support understanding chemical review processes and global and regional requirements, from product ingredients and formulations to regulatory approvals, labeling, and market safety.
• Assess Toxicity And Health Risks
  Use exposure assessments, toxicity evaluations, health risk assessments, and study design support to understand potential health risks associated with chemicals and products.
• Improve Formulations And Manufacturing Processes
  Evaluate new formulations, improve existing processes, and plan manufacturing process design and optimization, with regulatory reviews and product performance and stress testing across the product lifecycle.
• Identify Supply Chain Chemical Risks
  Assess supply chains for potential contaminants and sources, evaluate suppliers and manufacturing partners, and analyze alternatives to restricted or banned substances. Custom testing can characterize new chemical compounds.
• Support Chemical Products Across Their Lifecycle
  Access multidisciplinary consulting for a range of chemical products and materials, from product and process development through safety, regulatory compliance, performance, and responses to challenges.
• Turn Chemical Data Into Insights
  Organize and analyze chemical data, manage databases and integrations, and use advanced modeling to provide insights and decision-making support. Dashboards and custom reports help communicate results.
• Evaluate Emerging Contaminants
  Assess emerging contaminants and changing regulatory activity, examine supply chains, and develop mitigation and substitution strategies to help clients navigate associated risks.
• Reduce Chemical Exposure Risks
  Assess occupational and environmental health risks from chemical exposures and accidents, develop mitigation strategies, and provide compliance support to help safeguard employee health and workplace safety.
• Uncover Chemical Incident Causes
  Investigate chemical incidents and failures to determine what went wrong and identify contributing factors, supporting actionable understanding of events such as explosions, pipeline failures, leaks, spills, and reactivity incidents.
• Assess And Address Environmental Contamination
  Investigate contamination events, evaluate current risks and liability, and plan remediation. Experts can also support response activities and corrective actions to help prevent future incidents.
• Evaluate Chemical Product Safety And Performance
  Assess the safety, efficacy, performance, uses, and stated benefits of chemicals in products, including food and beverages, household products, cosmetics, and personal care products.

Consumer Products Consulting

Exponent provides multidisciplinary scientific and engineering consulting for consumer products throughout their lifecycle, from research and development through manufacturing and real-world use. Services include materials and process guidance, product design and performance analysis, custom testing, user research, manufacturing assessments, and product safety, risk, and recall support. Teams investigate failures, evaluate risks, test potential solutions, and provide technical input for recall and remediation decisions. Exponent also assesses operational and product environmental impacts and helps clients evaluate product safety and quality compliance programs.

• Inform Safety And Recall Decisions
  Use scientific analysis of incidents, risks, and potential solutions to inform decisions about product safety, recalls, and remediation.
• Improve Product Performance
  Identify design or product flaws and evaluate performance with testing tailored to the product and its challenges.
• Design For Diverse Users
  Use scientific research into user behavior and experience to inform product design, usability, and the clarity of instructions and warnings.
• Guide Product Development
  Get technical guidance on materials, manufacturing processes, and testing as products are developed and refined.
• Assess Manufacturing Operations
  Examine equipment, people, facilities, and processes to understand manufacturing performance and identify operational challenges.
• Support Product Compliance
  Evaluate product safety and quality compliance programs and use testing and technical input to support regulatory communications.
• Bring Experts Together
  Address product challenges with connected teams drawing on multiple scientific and engineering disciplines.
• Understand Real-World Performance
  Use product and user data gathered during real-world use to understand product performance and inform improvements.
• Assess Environmental Impacts
  Understand potential effects of operations and products on air, soil, and groundwater.

Electronics Consulting

Exponent provides multidisciplinary consulting across the electronics product lifecycle, from design and testing to manufacturing and safety. Its experts support products including phones, wearables, computers, virtual reality devices, and smart thermostats, using customized analysis and testing to investigate failures, assess risks, and help improve product performance, reliability, and safety.

• Improve Products At Every Stage
  Get tailored engineering support throughout the electronics product lifecycle, from early design and development through testing, manufacturing, and safety evaluation.
• Improve Battery Safety And Reliability
  Identify battery failure causes and understand how design and manufacturing issues can contribute to safety risks in electronics.
• Resolve Circuit And Component Failures
  Investigate circuit problems across connected system, component, and material levels to identify causes and support reliability improvements.
• Identify Product Safety Risks
  Evaluate potential hazards and investigate safety concerns to help identify issues before they contribute to product recalls or lawsuits.
• Build More Inclusive Algorithms
  Use carefully sampled and prepared data to assess whether sensors and algorithms account for a broad range of people, conditions, and use cases.
• Identify Display Failure Causes
  Pinpoint and verify causes of display problems across product generations and changing form factors.
• Design For Real-World Users
  Use evidence about user behavior and experience to inform electronics designs, account for diverse populations and unexpected use cases, and assess the clarity of instructions and warnings.
• Assess Optical Performance And Hazards
  Evaluate optical systems for performance and safety risks throughout product development, using simulations and testing tailored to the product.
• Develop Safer, Stronger Electronics
  Apply materials research and multidisciplinary expertise to support the development of electronics products with improved safety and strength.

Industrial & Manufacturing Consulting

Exponent’s multidisciplinary science and engineering teams help industrial and manufacturing companies assess equipment, facilities, processes, and operations. Services include equipment safety and reliability studies, factory and industrial risk audits, manufacturing process and quality assessments, incident investigations, environmental and health impact assessments, sustainability guidance, and dispute support. Teams identify hazards, root causes, and opportunities for improvement, then provide practical recommendations to help companies manage risk and improve operational performance.

• Reduce Equipment Hazards And Failure Risks
  Assess equipment materials, design, stresses, and human-machine interactions to identify potential hazards and failure risks and inform safety and reliability improvements.
• Identify And Mitigate Operational Risks
  Review equipment and processes across industrial operations to identify risks to workers and production and help companies prevent or address them.
• Identify Root Causes And Prevent Recurrence
  Investigate incidents and failures to clarify what happened, why it happened, and what can be done to prevent similar events.
• Strengthen Quality And Correct Persistent Problems
  Assess quality systems and investigate manufacturing problems to identify improvement opportunities and support procedures and corrective actions intended to deliver lasting results.
• Protect Workers And Improve Safe Work Practices
  Evaluate workplace conditions, procedures, material handling, and exposure risks to help companies identify safety concerns and develop tailored safeguards.
• Find And Address Facility Hazards
  Evaluate buildings and infrastructure for hazards that could affect industrial operations, including fire, structural, electrical, and piping risks.
• Assess And Mitigate Environmental And Health Impacts
  Understand potential effects of industrial activities on the environment and human health, and use assessments, monitoring, modeling, and remediation support to address identified issues.
• Plan For Climate And Sustainability Challenges
  Evaluate potential climate-related business and supply-chain concerns and advise on manufacturing efficiencies, mitigation strategies, and circular economy approaches.
• Clarify Technical Issues In Disputes
  Use objective analysis and clearly communicated expert findings to help clients understand manufacturing-related disputes and support proceedings.
• Evaluate Industrial Challenges Onsite
  Bring multidisciplinary expertise to industrial sites for inspections, custom testing, and rapid response, with remote inspection support available when needed.

Life Sciences & Healthcare Consulting

Exponent supports life sciences organizations across the total product lifecycle, helping bring therapeutics and healthcare products to market and address design, regulatory, safety, evidence, and market access challenges. Its multidisciplinary experts provide research, engineering, data, health sciences, and regulatory consulting for pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics, combination products, and digital health. Services include product development and testing, regulatory strategy, health impact assessment, real-world evidence, and analytics to support informed decisions and improve human health.

• Navigate Challenges Across The Product Lifecycle
  Work with multidisciplinary specialists across product development and market stages, from design and regulatory planning through safety and post-market needs.
• Navigate Regulatory Review And Market Access
  Get support for regulatory planning, agency interactions, product testing, submissions, labeling, and compliance across development and post-market stages.
• Turn Health Data Into Decision-Ready Insights
  Improve data collection, integration, and analysis, and establish systems and dashboards for ongoing analytics while addressing privacy considerations.
• Guide Research And Development Decisions
  Use market and scientific reviews, preclinical support, candidate selection, modeling, and requirements engineering to inform product and market decisions.
• Strengthen Product Design And Innovation
  Apply design, material, performance, and human factors analyses to support product safety, efficacy, value proposition, and market potential.
• Assess Product Impacts Across Patient Populations
  Develop a clearer understanding of product benefits, risks, and value across intended populations and use cases to inform product decisions.
• Generate Evidence For Regulatory And Payer Decisions
  Use real-world data and epidemiologic methods to develop evidence about unmet medical needs and comparative effectiveness in target patient populations.
• Evaluate Treatments Through Clinical Research
  Apply clinical and pharmacoepidemiology research to address questions arising during product development and across the product lifecycle.
• Evaluate Product Value And Market Access
  Assess clinical, humanistic, social, and economic value to inform product access and decision-making.

Software & Computer Science Consulting

Exponent provides multidisciplinary scientific and engineering consulting for software, computer systems, and technology products. Support spans design and development, failure analysis, cybersecurity, human-computer interaction, data intelligence, financial due diligence, and intellectual property matters. Experts work across embedded, control, safety-critical, and business-critical systems throughout the development process.

• Improve Software Design And Development
  Bring specialized computer science and engineering expertise to software products and systems, including embedded systems, control systems, and safety-critical applications.
• Identify Software Failure Mechanisms
  Determine how software and hardware interactions contribute to system failures, supporting efforts to understand and correct issues affecting operational systems.
• Identify And Mitigate Cybersecurity Risks
  Understand and rank cybersecurity risks across digital systems, then apply technical expertise to help implement appropriate security controls.
• Improve Interface Usability And System Performance
  Design and evaluate interfaces with human abilities and limitations in mind to reduce the likelihood of operator error and improve overall system performance.
• Strengthen Technical Arguments In Software Disputes
  Translate complex software and computing mechanics into objective, evidence-based insights for disputes involving intellectual property, including litigation and arbitration.
• Turn Data Into Actionable Insights
  Use data-based insights to support end users and inform organizational activities across a range of client types.
• Evaluate Software Claims And Intellectual Property
  Provide investors with technical clarity about software performance, product claims, and the uniqueness of intellectual property involved in an investment, acquisition, or licensing decision.

Testing & Evaluations

Exponent provides global laboratory and on-site testing and evaluations, combining engineering first principles with real-world evidence. Multidisciplinary teams design and conduct custom tests for client products, challenges, and real-world conditions, supporting quality assurance, regulatory approvals, safety assessments, product development, failure investigations, and litigation. Services include specialized evaluations across batteries, electric vehicles, materials, biomedical devices, mechanical products, transportation, fire and flammability, electrical systems, and analytical chemistry, as well as data collection studies and on-site inspections.

• Tailor Testing To Real-World Conditions
  Get testing designed around your product, specific challenge, and real-world conditions to gather evidence and data relevant to your decisions.
• Access Global Lab And On-Site Support
  Use Exponent's facilities and teams across regions for laboratory work, on-site inspections, and custom testing. Remote inspections can also be supported through encrypted video streaming.
• Evaluate Products Across Technical Disciplines
  Draw on specialized testing and evaluation capabilities to investigate materials, products, systems, and components across a wide range of technical disciplines and industries.
• Bring Together Specialized Expertise
  Address complex testing questions with a team assembled around the challenge, drawing on expertise from more than 90 technical disciplines.
• Mobilize Experts When Time Matters
  Respond to time-critical events with a multidisciplinary team that can be on the scene within minutes, supporting rapid assessment and investigation.
• Capture Data In Real-World Conditions
  Collect data through tailored, human-centered studies or derive insights from existing datasets to help answer questions about products, processes, and workforces.
• Apply Standards-Informed Technical Leadership
  Benefit from experts who participate in scientific committees and advisory boards and contribute to industry standards and innovation.
• Work Alongside Testing Experts
  Collaborate directly with Exponent experts at its facilities, allowing client teams to participate side-by-side in the work.
• Connect With Global Partners
  Leverage Exponent's network of academic institutions and local experts to support testing and evaluations across locations.

Information Resources

Exponent’s Information Resources team supports client engagements by locating, evaluating, acquiring, and synthesizing authoritative technical, scientific, legal, and business information. Drawing on professional databases, specialized collections, global sourcing networks, and other tools, the team finds literature, standards, prior art, citations, market data, competitive intelligence, and other hard-to-find materials for analysis, investigations, litigation, laboratory and field work, and project planning. The service helps consultants and clients obtain reliable information efficiently, cost-effectively, and in compliance with applicable laws and requirements.

• Find Authoritative Technical Information
  Clients and consultants can draw on relevant technical and scientific literature gathered for their specific analysis, investigation, litigation, laboratory or field work, or project planning needs.
• Turn Complex Information Into Insights
  Large volumes of information are distilled and analyzed for the specific challenge, helping clients and experts identify useful connections and insights.
• Access Specialized Global Resources
  A broad network of sources helps clients and experts reach information across disciplines, geographic borders, and paywalls.
• Locate Diverse Research Materials
  Clients can obtain a range of authoritative materials, including standards, prior art, citations, market data, competitive intelligence, and specialized literature.
• Source Information Efficiently And Compliantly
  Information is sourced with attention to efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and applicable legal and other requirements.
• Ask More Effective Research Questions
  Taxonomy and ontology knowledge supports more effective queries, helping focus research on information relevant to the challenge.
• Align Stakeholders With Common Terms
  Common vocabularies help promote understanding across stakeholders working on a client challenge.

Visual Communication

Exponent’s Visual Communication team works with scientific and engineering experts throughout a project lifecycle, from data collection to presentation. It turns complex findings and concepts into scientifically accurate visuals for clients, juries, and lay audiences. Services include 3D data capture, photography and video, modeling, virtual inspections, demonstratives, animations, graphics, presentation materials, and 3D printing. These tools help audiences visualize technical information and support scene documentation, evidence preservation, measurement, analysis, and communication.

• Capture Data And Preserve Evidence
  Capture detailed 3D information that supports scene documentation, evidence preservation, measurements, and dimensional analysis.
• Visualize Scenes And Examine Evidence
  Explore accurate 3D scenes and models to explain findings, conduct dimensional analysis, and examine factors such as visibility and injury causation.
• Explain Complex Findings Visually
  Turn technical analysis and data into memorable visual explanations, including 3D visualizations and animations driven by motion-capture or simulation data.
• Measure Events From Photos And Videos
  Extract dimensional information from existing images and video to support analysis of recorded events, including after the event has occurred.
• Create Physical Models And Prototypes
  Produce physical models and prototypes for product development, testing, research, and audience interaction, with in-house production supporting confidentiality and swift turnaround.
• Document Events With Specialized Imaging
  Use tailored photography and video techniques to address project imaging needs, including synchronized and high-speed video.
• Present Technical Information Clearly
  Use tailored graphics and presentation materials to communicate technical information to clients and other audiences.

Research Strategy & Implementation

Exponent helps clients advance existing products and invent new ones by defining the right research questions and providing custom testing, scientific analysis, data, and research. Its multidisciplinary scientists and engineers tackle unstructured challenges across industries, with capabilities designed to adapt to clients’ specific needs. Exponent offers timely insights on business-relevant timelines, as well as rapid response, onsite inspections, and bespoke testing at facilities in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

• Define The Right Research Questions
  Clarify what to investigate so research can be directed toward the client’s specific product or technology challenge.
• Combine Expertise Across Technical Disciplines
  Bring relevant specialists together to examine complex challenges from multiple technical perspectives.
• Get Insights From Bespoke Testing
  Use testing tailored to the challenge to generate insights for product and technology development.
• Advance Research On Business-Relevant Timelines
  Access timely insights when product or service development needs to progress in weeks or months.
• Inform Decisions With Scientific Analysis
  Use scientific analysis, data, and research to gain insights that inform product and technology development.
• Access Rapid Response And Onsite Inspections
  Draw on teams and facilities across the U.S., Europe, and Asia for responsive support and onsite inspection needs.

Product Analysis & Improvement

Exponent provides unbiased, third-party analysis and improvement services for products across consumer products, electronics, life sciences and healthcare, food and beverage, and transportation. Multidisciplinary teams combine user research, data sciences, biomechanics, electrical engineering, materials expertise, testing, and other disciplines to address product design, usability, performance, and safety challenges. Exponent develops custom teams and bespoke approaches, with capabilities including real-world user analysis, product testing, and mechanical modeling and simulation.

• Address Complex Product Challenges
  Bring together relevant technical expertise and tailored approaches to examine product challenges from multiple perspectives.
• Apply Real-World User Insights
  Use observations of real-world product use and user interactions to inform product designs and biometrics algorithms.
• Prepare Data For Machine Learning
  Set sampling requirements, organize and clean collected data, and prepare it for machine-learning pipelines.
• Optimize Product Fit And Movement
  Assess fit, bodily pressures and forces, and the effects of products on human movement and posture.
• Test Products With Tailored Methods
  Use bespoke testing and evaluations, including highly customizable and repeatable ADAS testing, to investigate product challenges.
• Assess Electrical System Safety
  Evaluate laser-using systems for safety and examine whether they are designed to work and fail safely.
• Predict And Optimize Performance
  Apply mechanical modeling and simulation to predict and optimize performance or investigate the root cause of field failure.
• Select And Test Product Materials
  Evaluate, select, optimize, and test materials for products, including consumer electronics and medical devices.

Product Safety and Recall Consulting

Exponent’s multidisciplinary scientists, engineers, and regulatory experts help companies assess product safety issues and make informed recall and remediation decisions. Services include custom product performance and safety testing, statistical analysis, failure investigations, and technical input on corrective actions. Experts review consumer complaints and incident units, recreate failures in laboratory facilities, and analyze root causes. They also formulate and test potential solutions, help evaluate product safety and quality compliance programs, and support regulatory communications. Findings may help companies understand the affected products and assess the scope of a recall.

• Identify Failure Causes
  Investigating complaints, incident products, and recreated failures helps clients understand the nature and cause of a product safety problem.
• Assess Product Risks
  Analysis of the problem, its consequences, and potential exposures gives clients evidence to inform safety and corrective-action decisions.
• Test Products Under Stress
  Custom testing recreates product problems and produces scientific data to help clients evaluate performance and safety issues.
• Inform Recall Decisions
  Statistical analysis and technical findings give clients evidence to use when considering product recalls and remediation.
• Refine Recall Scope
  When a root cause can be linked to specific production circumstances, analysis may help determine which products and product populations are affected.
• Develop And Test Solutions
  Evaluating and testing potential changes helps clients address identified failures and consider ways to minimize impacts on consumers.
• Guide Regulatory Communications
  Expert support helps clients use scientific findings to guide communications with regulatory agencies during product safety and recall matters.
• Evaluate Safety Programs
  Review of products and safety or quality compliance programs helps clients examine their approach to product safety.