Case study – Scientific expertise in solving production problems based on impregnated granular material

Sector: Electrotechnics

Customer type: Group

Contact department: Industrialization/R&D

The Customer suffers defects in the production of a granular material from a process impregnation, heat treatment and compaction and calls on RHEONIS to support the understanding of phenomena at the scientific level to guide problem solving actions.

The tools of science at the service of solving industrial problems

In response to this request, RHEONIS has implemented its know-how in the physics of divided solids and industrial thermomechanical processes to analyze the factors influencing the specific problem of the Customer at the scientific level and to propose ways of interpretation and concrete actions.

The stages of the study were therefore as follows:

  1. State of the art of impregnation mechanisms
  2. Brainstorming in problem solving
  3. Complementary bibliographic study on failure mechanisms
  4. Analysis and exploitation of production data and data configuration
  5. Recommendation for optimization and industrial testing

Intervention System Gauge

Product & Ingredient 50%
Process & Application 70%
Measurement & Instrumentation 5%
Methods for Industry 100%

Strengthen continuous improvement through a better scientific understanding of phenomena

The actions fueled the Customer's thoughts and facilitated the resolution of the problem. Ways of improving the process were also outlined. The data exploitation parameters were able to be integrated by the Customer into its test procedures.

The state of the scientific art to investigate the possible causes of problems

Understanding of physical phenomena

multi-factorial analysis

Putting scientific data into perspective with industrial issues

Operational recommendations

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Last Updated on February 14, 2022 by Vincent Billot