ESRD (Engineering Software Research and Development, Inc.) exists to create, maintain and support software products for the advancement of the quality, reliability and timeliness of information that serves the engineering decision-making processes. Predictions based on numerical simulation must be reliable. Reliability is achieved and enhanced through simulation governance, which includes concepts such as verification and validation. ESRD’s software product StressCheck® is the only FEA tool that was designed to support simulation governance in the fields of mechanical, aerospace and structural engineering.