Ann: Testing Capability Upgrade & Management Changes, page-30

They are setting the lab up to test the final product. If you weren't supremely confident about having something at the end of this to test, you would defer this expenditure until you had it in the bag.

Plus there's still an opportunity for analysis work to be done on old non-platform lots - if there are delays in the upcoming platform lot (which I expect because nothing goes to schedule) - at least they can make use of the delay to define retention and endurance on those lots and perhaps throw us a few bones about those figures in the meantime.

The test gear in and of itself isn't what make this an ASX announceable - it's the reduction in Mike's remuneration and the role reduction for the chief engineering officer. Telling us about the capital investment in a new test rig is what makes it interesting.