What is Industrial Behavioral R&D?

Nearly 10 years of industrial collaborations and methodological research have led RHEONIS to materialize a unique, efficient Research and Development approach dedicated to industrial challenges related to physical behavior and transformation of all types of matter.

Objectives

Industrial Behavioral R&D implements a unique combination of science, pragmatism and engineering for:

• Develop and improve products and processes
• Solve technical problems related to material behavior
• Understand and quantify causes and influencing factors
• Dimension special processes and systems
• Develop predictive instrumental approaches
• Open paths of innovation

An industrial science approach

Industrial Behavioral R&D is a approach to industrial science, which starts from the issues and problems in the field encountered by industries, from R&D to application, to quickly and efficiently develop solutions, improvements, orientations, methods, etc.

Industrial Behavioral R&D focuses on couplings between the parameters involved in the industrial phenomena of material transformation, such as the influence of process or application conditions or the variability of inputs on process performance and product quality, the appropriate instrumental methods to effectively discriminate and anticipate behaviors or even the appropriate equipment.

Thanks to scientific approaches from different disciplinary fields (physics, rheology, mechanics of complex fluids, mechanics, thermal, physico-chemistry), adapted methods (instrumented micro-pilot, phenomenological experience plans, SPIQI) and process or instrumentation engineering techniques, Industrial Behavioral R&D makes it possible to systemically combine the understanding of phenomena and pragmatism in the investigation of solutions at the material, product, process, measurement and method levels.

Respond to the limitations of usual R&D approaches

The usual R&D approaches in industry generally suffer from the following limitations:

• Being guided by quality control and the associated measurement standards - leading to confusion between products considered equivalent according to measurement and observed to be different in the field
• Partitioning product and process - thus often making the industrialization stage problematic
• Rely essentially on the know-how of operators and empirical practices by trial and error - limiting capitalization on the understanding of influencing factors and their interactions

A robust operational alternative, Industrial Behavioral R&D makes it possible to develop and use sustainable operational control of performance factors and causes of problems, more and more essential to gain in capacity for innovation, in performance, in quality and to evolve towards more sustainable approaches.

Guarantee operational responses to industrial issues

The current voluntarist vision of pragmatism is that a problem should only be solved. In reality, in complex environments, it is just as important for an organization to identify, anticipate, circumvent or mitigate them.

Industrial Behavioral R&D, through its diagnostic and step-by-step approach, offers the possibility oforient actions according to the concrete field of possibilities while opening up the possibility of visiting inaccessible options on the ground, more quickly, objectively, by less mobilization of resources.