Digital Test Bench

Digital Test Bench (DTB) is Metafold’s performance engineering platform that digitally replicates standard physical tests such as compression, shear, and 3-point bending, directly from 3D CAD. Instead of waiting 3–6 weeks per prototype iteration, teams can evaluate hundreds or thousands of design variations in parallel and identify top performers in a single digital workflow. DTB is built for teams facing real R&D pressure: • Prototype bottlenecks slowing innovation cycles • Unlimited design space, but limited time and testing capacity • Aggressive performance and weight targets • Material optimization tradeoffs (performance, cost, sustainability) • The need to validate decisions before tooling and production Using calibrated material models for proprietary foams and elastomers and a scalable Design of Experiments workflow, DTB enables systematic experimentation at scale. Engineers can compare force–displacement curves, stress distributions, stiffness, and energy absorption across thousands of candidates—moving to physical testing only with high-confidence designs. The impact is measurable: • 95% faster iteration • Evaluation of 1000+ designs instead of 5–10 • Double-digit weight reduction while maintaining performance • Reduced time to market with higher decision confidence Digital Test Bench transforms the traditional design → prototype → test cycle into a scalable, data-driven engineering process—compressing R&D timelines while improving product performance.