What Expert Review is
Expert Review is an independent technical opinion on work that has already been done. MTIS examines an investigation report, a set of test results or a laboratory work package, and states plainly whether the evidence supports the conclusion drawn from it.
It is used where a decision, a supplier position or an internal disagreement rests on a technical finding, and where a second qualified view materially changes the confidence you can place in it.
What the review covers
- Whether the evidence collected was sufficient, and whether anything decisive was missed or destroyed.
- Whether the test methods chosen could actually answer the question asked of them.
- Whether the interpretation follows from the data, or reaches beyond it.
- Whether the failure mode and fundamental mechanism identified are consistent with the observed evidence.
- Whether the stated root cause is supported, or is one of several possibilities presented as settled.
- What further work, if any, would resolve the remaining uncertainty.
What you receive
A written review setting out what the original work established, what it did not, and where MTIS agrees or differs — with the reasoning shown, so the conclusion can be examined rather than taken on trust. Where MTIS disagrees, the review states what evidence would settle the point.
Scope and limits
A review is bounded by the material supplied. Where evidence has been discarded, components cleaned, or testing carried out in a way that cannot be repeated, the review says so rather than speculating. MTIS will state when the available material cannot support any firm conclusion — that is itself a finding worth having.
Expert Review is separate from the Failure Investigator application and from the professional review of Failure Investigator output. It is a consultancy engagement, quoted per case.
Related services
Where a review concludes that the underlying question remains open, it often leads into a failure investigation or a targeted characterisation and testing programme.