Atelier des Méthodes May 15, 2018 – Viscometry, Texturometry, Rheometry
Atelier des Méthodes May 15, 2018 Viscometry, Texturometry, Rheometry There are many brands and ranges of viscometers, texturometers and rheometers, offering a wide range of performance for various needs in R&D, quality control, industrialization, production or application. But on what criteria to choose an instrumentation? How to ensure the potential of this equipment for...
Startup Life – Episode 8: Listening Between the Words
Silences often speak as loudly as words, in life and in business. Especially in industrial service. The actors who contact us are generally faced with a technical problem that has not been resolved internally - or incompletely - despite their efforts, justifying evaluating the potential contribution of a third party. The underlying need, despite its degree of urgency and its…
Optimize Your Extrusion Process Through Experimental Modeling
Optimizing your Extrusion process through Experimental Modeling Extrusion is a complex thermomechanical process, and it is not uncommon for the material to have difficulty reaching the exit of the die or to present defects and variability. While the extrusion of common polymers is now well mastered, many materials still pose difficulties. Bring the...
Startup Life – Episode 7: Sight Sailing
Our business plan was perfect. It only took a few months for reality to smash it, with no respect for our fine work of preparation. These first cases that were just waiting for our creation to be ordered? Postponed, slimmed down, even abandoned. The pre-creation interest of prospects for our future services? Eventually less...
Startup life – Episode 6: The price of trust
When starting an innovative activity, (almost) no one completely trusts you. Prospects want tangible proof of your added value and that's normal. But these tangible proofs do not necessarily exist. Not all. Or not yet. The young company often does not yet have references, the offer is not completely positioned, the product not...
Startup Life – Episode 5: Praise of the Informal
For more than two years, it was as a duo – not to mention the precious moral support of our third partner – that we built our industrial services activity. At the start, we had set up certain meeting routines, a few simple procedures, an archiving database, management and monitoring tools. But the main thing...
Startup Life – Episode 4: Caps & Sombrero
Developing an activity requires organizing the wearing of multiple hats necessary for its proper functioning with the heads available: first and foremost those of the founders. When setting up the project, we quite naturally agreed on the allocation of the main roles based on our respective skills and experience. For skills to complete,…
Life of Startup – Episode 3: Polyrhythm of the company
From Taylorism to the Theory of Constraints, the importance of rhythm to business functioning has long been identified. But beyond the rate of production, the life of the company combines all sorts of rhythms, which a young company learns, often unconsciously, to tame, to stabilize, to harmonize. Customer acquisition, financial flows,...
Startup Life – Episode 2: Independence and Freedom
Surveys show it: desires for independence and freedom are the main drivers of business creation. But the paths of entrepreneurship are, on these aspects, sometimes tortuous. If the entrepreneur actually aims for a certain independence, it is first and foremost that of his organization: to confer on the company, by a happy arrangement of its dynamics…
Startup life – 1
“An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds an airplane on the way down,” according to Linkedin co-founder Reid Hofmann. I find the image very evocative. In my eyes, the entrepreneur is neither suicidal nor completely unconscious, although necessarily a little reckless. He most often meticulously spotted the terrain (the proof, he…Startup Life – Introduction
Since the creation of our company, the strange feeling has developed that the vast majority of start-ups evolve in a world very different from ours. Their positioning seemed so clear. Their obvious added value. My first instinct was to doubt our world. Our creation (the first) had been a complex process and the…
Participation in Techinov Events
Participation in Techinov Events We will be present at the Techinnov Events on February 8 in Paris. Come and discover our tailor-made approaches for the development of predictive instrumental methods and product/process optimization and discuss your projects for the Industry of the Future. https://lnkd.in/e2KSv8X
What paths towards the Industry of the Future for transformation processes?
What paths towards the Industry of the Future for transformation processes? The journal Nature published last April an article by Andrew Kusiak entitled "Smart-manufacturing must embrace Big Data" [1]. American professor of mechanics and industrial engineering, specialist in big data issues, Kusiak analyzed the obstacles encountered by manufacturers in the integration of these...
Non-Newtonian fluid on an enclosure
Non-Newtonian fluid on a loudspeaker In the series of "fluid-solid" substances, the fabulous experience of the concentrated aqueous suspension of cornstarch (a little colored by the way) vibrating on a loudspeaker. A few elements of explanation: this product is what is called a shear-thickening fluid, i.e. it thickens when a stress is applied to it (at...
Powders & Instrumental Techniques
Powders & Instrumental Techniques Whether metallic, mineral, organic, synthetic or natural, powders are everywhere in industry. They are ground, transported, stored, suspended, bagged, mixed, functionalized, sintered or compressed. Obviously, these treatments sometimes cause certain difficulties: the grains stick between...
Invitation to Ambitions Europe Days
Invitation to the Ambitions Europe Days Thanks to Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Entreprises for the invitation to pitch our innovative approach to Smart-Technical-Data-Engineering™ as part of the Ambitions Europe Days and the "Advanced manufacturing processes" workshops on October 13 next in Lyon. What is Smart-Technical-Data-Engineering™, by the way? This is the technical & scientific method developed over the past 4 years...
Participation in Carnot meetings
Participation in RDV Carnot We will be present at Rendez-vous Carnot to discuss the potential of behavioral instrumental techniques for your R&D and your processes for powders, fluid, pasty or semi-solid products.
Second Powders Technical Days
Second SAVE THE DATE Powder Technical Days: 2nd edition of the "Powders: from characterization to predictive measurements" Technical Days in partnership with Anton Paar France on October 3 at our premises in Grenoble. Come and discover the modern techniques of instrumental analysis of the behavior of powders and their potential for your challenges and problems...
The Rheology of Cats
The Rheology of Cats The rheology of cats honored by the IgNobels, with a real basic question for its author, Marc-Antoine Fardin: are cats rather solid or liquid? Fantastic quasi-scientific article, illustrating the idea that the notions of solidity / fluidity are relative to certain time scales (p.16 of the link...The impact of heat on the adhesion of drops in spraying processes
A study reveals a new way to amplify or reduce the adhesion of drops in the freezing phase by David L. Chandler, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Grains of Builders
Grains de Bâtisseurs Superb series of popular videos on the behavior of grains, from the "Grains de Batisseurs" project by the CRAterre-ENSAG laboratory, between science and architecture. 4.03 - The concrete mixer from amàco on Vimeo. See all videos