About
Normpal is a qualification intelligence platform that surfaces documented failure precedent your test plan and FMEA miss, for teams building complex, mission-critical hardware.
A German engineering company. The platform runs inside your environment, so qualification material never has to leave it.
We map your materials, interfaces and operating conditions against documented failures from aerospace, chemical, marine and industrial systems, back to the 1960s. The outcome is a list of precedents that share the physics of your design, each one traceable to its source.
Your qualification plan is checked against that evidence to show which assumptions it does not yet support. Teams use it to see what their current tests actually prove, and what they do not.
A precedent counts when the mechanism matches, not when the product does. A seal failure in a chemical valve can be the relevant warning for a marine fitting, and we show why.
The platform is deployed inside your environment so qualification material never has to leave it. Integration is scoped as part of the engagement.
FMEA tools such as APIS IQ, Isograph, Relyence and XFMEA work mostly from data your company already holds, which limits you to the failure modes your teams already know. Normpal works from documented incident records, service reports and recalls across industries, back to the 1960s.
PLM platforms like Siemens Teamcenter and PTC Windchill are systems of record: they capture the work your engineers do. Normpal adds the missing check — whether a risk is real, and whether the chosen test can actually expose it.
Each precedent arrives with the document it came from, so your engineers can read it and judge it themselves. Nothing is returned as an unsourced assertion.
Normpal does not assign final FMEA ratings. It shows where a rating lacks supporting evidence and leaves the decision with the responsible engineer.
The platform runs on your infrastructure, handled only by named Normpal engineers, with nothing sent to third-party AI models or APIs. Material shared with us is deleted within ten working days with a signed destruction certificate.
Engineering organisations where a field failure is expensive, slow to fix, or both.
Not through carelessness. Teams write qualification plans from the evidence available to them, which is almost always their own organisation’s. That evidence is deep, but it is bounded, and the boundary is where programmes lose time and money.
Melih spent nine years in aeronautical R&D watching it from the inside: campaigns that passed, then field failures caused by a mechanism someone had already documented. The knowledge existed. It sat in another company’s incident report, another sector’s recall notice, another decade’s investigation.
A tin whisker destroyed a communications satellite in 1998; the mechanism was published in 1952. The same physics took out the target-detection system on US Navy Phoenix missiles in 1989, documented since 1946. Thirty-two Bay Bridge anchor rods fractured from hydrogen embrittlement in 2013, a mechanism NASA wrote up in 1966. Every one was preventable with evidence that already existed.
It goes unused because a report from another industry, about another product, reads as irrelevant — until you decompose it far enough to see the physics is identical. That decomposition is the work, and it is what we built.
We are four founders who hit the same gap from different directions: aeronautical engineering and R&D, AI systems for environments where being wrong is expensive, and commercial work across European defence manufacturing. Defence production is scaling faster than qualification can keep up with, and the constraint is not factories or funding — it is proving a design is ready before it gets there. Normpal is what we wanted to exist.
Aeronautical engineering and the failure methodology behind Normpal.
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Defence market access and design partnerships.
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Product, enterprise AI and secure on-premises systems.
LinkedInElena Bösenberg — TKMS
Kiril Vereshchagin — EY
Andreas Frank — EY
Advisers act in a personal capacity. Their organisations are named for background only and are not Normpal customers or partners.
Thirty minutes is enough to pick a suitable product and agree scope. Reach Olha Siuta at +49 170 4632135.
A mutual NDA is signed before any material moves, with no residuals clause. You can redact anything sensitive first — the review is built around customer-controlled redaction.
Engagements start with a single product rather than a whole portfolio. You provide one redacted test plan or FMEA and roughly 90 minutes with the responsible engineer.
Material is handled only by identified Normpal engineers. You are working with the founding team, not a support tier.
Anything shared with us is deleted within ten working days, and we provide signed written confirmation once deletion is complete.
No. It adds evidence to the process you already run, and flags assumptions worth a second look.
No. It shows where a rating lacks supporting evidence. Your engineers own the final call.
One redacted test plan or FMEA, and 90 minutes with the responsible engineer.
Yes. The review is built around customer-controlled redaction.
Inside your own environment. Normpal is deployed on your infrastructure, and nothing is sent to external AI models or third-party APIs.
Anything shared with us is deleted within ten working days, with a signed destruction certificate.
Defence and high-reliability hardware come first. The approach applies to aerospace, maritime, automotive and industrial systems.
Thirty minutes is enough to pick a suitable product and agree scope.