Are You Destructive?

I believe destructive type of testing should always be incorporated in equipment designs. I have done so in the past and while being part of the equipment users. It was a component of my in-house testing protocols as my department conduct its final product acceptance for the institution. The testing protocols were developed to validate product's technical written specifications. Comparing and monitoring product behavior as its applications were simulated. A good example of destructive testing conducted on defibrillators was to expose the input side to actual and direct maximum delivered output, to test its designs against written specs. We did encounter a lot of failures that resulted to certain product's / model or brand being rejected /recalled. Without naming manufacturers, these destructive efforts after conducting a series of meetings with respective design engineers, eventually triggered design improvements on the manufacturer's side!