Why You Should Use Laces to Simplify Verification and Compliance

Verification plays a critical role in industries where precision, safety, and accountability are non-negotiable, whether you’re designing infrastructure, building vehicles, or manufacturing medical devices. Yet, for many teams, managing the verification process is still a complex, manual, and error-prone task.

This is where the Laces Requirements Manager comes in. It simplifies the planning and execution of verification activities, ensuring your project or product stays compliant without the usual administrative burden.

What is Verification?

Verification is the process of confirming that a design, product, or process meets its specified requirements. It includes activities like testing, inspections, and compliance checks. Other terms often used interchangeably with verification include commissioning, design testing, and compliance testing.

At its core, it ensures that your output meets its intended purpose and aligns with the expectations of clients, regulators, or end users.

Why Verification Matters?

Without a structured approach to verification, there’s a real risk that critical requirements will be missed or improperly interpreted. This can lead to rework, compliance issues, or product failure. A straightforward verification process consists of the following:

• Ensures quality and safety.
• Minimizes project risks.
• Demonstrates due diligence to clients, inspectors, and auditors.
• Aligns teams around a shared definition of “done.”

What is a Verification Plan?

A verification plan outlines how you will demonstrate compliance with your requirements. Whether it’s called a test plan, control plan, or commissioning plan, the idea is the same: document the who, what, when, and how of verifying. A good verification plan answers:

• Which requirements need to be verified?
• When will they be verified?
• How will verification be performed (e.g., inspection, testing, simulation)?
• Who is responsible for verifying each requirement?

Depending on the setup, the client, the contractor, the manufacturer, or the engineering team can draft a verification plan. If the latter creates one, client approval is often required before execution begins.

How Laces Simplifies the Process

The Laces Requirements Manager transforms the traditional, fragmented approach to verification into a structured, traceable, and collaborative workflow. Here’s how:

1. Centralized Requirements Capture

Laces enables you to define, structure, and manage all project or product requirements in one place. You always know what needs to be verified.

2. Easy Verification Planning

Develop clear, actionable verification plans and link them to your requirements within Laces. Define the method, timing (phase), and responsible party for each requirement. No spreadsheets or scattered documents are needed.

3. Assign Responsibilities

Assign requirements and verification responsibilities directly to stakeholders (agents). This ensures that everyone knows their role and that nothing falls through the cracks.

4. Integrated Verification Methods

Individual requirements can be verified using specific verification methods, such as assessments, tests, inspections, or approvals. Laces make the process consistent and repeatable.

Applicable Across Industries

Whether managing a public infrastructure project or developing high-precision equipment, Laces provides a scalable, flexible way to manage verification. It’s especially valuable in regulated or high-stakes environments where proving compliance is just as important as achieving it.

Verification is too necessary to be managed ad hoc. With Laces, you can embed compliance into the heart of your process proactively, transparently, and efficiently.

If you’re looking for a more innovative way to structure and manage your requirements and handle verification and compliance, request a demo of Laces Requirements Manager today.