Innovation and R&D
Are you an R&D Manager working in the Chemical, Polymer, Pharma or Food Industries?
Would you like to DOUBLE the Speed of New Product Development?
In the Tutorial lessons on the Design of Experiments(DOE for short) I discussed the simplicity, logic and power of the D. E. P. L. O. Y. method for the Design of Experiments.
D. E. P. L. O. Y. method is simple, step-wise, easy to use and effective.
For industrial product development and improvement projects, it provides one of the fastest and most cost effective methods for finding the underlying cause and effect relationships and optimums.
However DEPLOY still has a weakness, it still is hard to use without powerful software.
Here are some good popular packaged software solutions for the design of experiments.
Mukul Mehta
- You can ... if you have The Right Tool/Strategy.
Ten years ago, no one had heard of "Waymo." Google's driver-less car project. Now everybody is talking about it. Waymo makes split second decisions by scrutinizing thousands and thousands of data points and making intelligent predictions. Of course Google has been spending tens of millions every year to build Waymo. ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2018/09/21/key-milestones-of-waymo-googles-self-driving-cars/#7351c21e5369)
What if you can build a very expensive NEW Tool like Waymo for your R&D?
You may say, no, a tool like Waymo is too expensive and too high risk.
Waymo makes a decision every tenth of a second, probably much faster.
What if you make a poor man's version of Waymo for your R&D?
600X slower decision maker.
Make one quantitative prediction per minute for your R&D projects? Will that work for your R&D projects?
What if I tell you, you can NOW make such a Tool for your R&D projects use with newer technologies for less than a Million dollars? Less than a $100 thousand?
What if I can help your lab R&D chemists/engineers learn and start using such a NEW Tool in as little as four hours?
I can, because I have the domain expertise ---
- TWO Master's degrees. One in Chemical Engineering. Another in the fundamental science of predictive modeling
- Over 35 years proven industrial experience
- Produced many multi-million dollar savings for my clients
- Published a tech article for Handbook.
- Published a book Innovation and R&D, A Primer
- Won a Microsoft Grand Prize for a technology that manages new product development process, that might be of interest to you
- Worked on about 750 consulting projects,
- Trained nearly 1000 scientists, engineers and executives
Enough about myself.
Let us talk about THE Predictive tool.
If you have a limited budget, THIS Predictive tool gives you the biggest bang for the buck. Make your good scientists better. Help you double their new product output.
THIS Predictive Tool is founded on an industry proven scientific method for solving technical problems in:
- Product Development
- Process Improvement
- Manufacturing Tech Support and
Customer Product Use Tech Support?
- A method, a tool that can be applied again and again, on different types of problems, in different industries, and with a high success rate?
By using THIS Predictive Tool, your R&D scientists, can readily attain benefits like these:
- A 20 to 70% reduction in problem-solving time
- A 50% reduction in R&D costs related to testing, machine time, labor, and materials, and
- A 20% to 200% increase in the value, quality, and reliability of the information generated.
If you can achieve these types of results on your research projects you will be a hero in your management's eyes. Your market value will skyrocket.
State of the Art
Currently there are several well established competitors in the Predictive Tools market place with industry proven, but older tools. They are stuck in their old ways. They all subscribe and adhere to leading windows user interface paradigms. They provide each and every computational procedure/ algorithm. and hide everything in menus and sub menus. They provide full flexibility to really high tech professionals to tweak and adjust all the parameters.
These tools look great when a pro, with ten years experience, gives you a demo, clickity clack, clickity clack and lo and behold a beautiful graph/report. You get excited, download a trial version and try it. And suddenly you recognize all the technical jargon that you need to learn. You browse the manual, it is over 300 pages, full of jargon. Their intro course is 3 days, intermediate course 2 days and an advanced course 3 days.
As an R&D manager, you recognize its value, you try it, invest a year or two and give up. Too difficult. Too complicated.
You talk to your peers and a few provide wisdom. "... It is great software. Among the world's best.... All you have to do is hire a real professional with a master's degree and good social and consulting skills, give him/her 2-3 years and hope ... "
Hope! Hope is not a strategy.
Mukul is bilingual. He speaks Chemical Engineering and Applied Statistics.
As a Senior R&D Manager, Statistics and Computer-Aided Research at BF Goodrich Chemical, he championed the use of Design of Experiments (DOE) for predictive modeling, performance optimization, scale-up, and quality control.
Currently, he is the Founder and President of FastR&D, LLC, based in Cleveland, Ohio.
Over his career, he has trained nearly 1,000 R&D scientists, engineers, and senior executives. He has led 750 DOE studies across industries including chemicals, food, polymers, plastics, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices. His projects range from scaling up a one-inch fluid bed reactor to an 18-foot production reactor, to optimizing the design of a tiny angioplasty device for renal artery denervation and blood pressure control.
Mukul has advised numerous Fortune 1000 chemical firms on innovation, rapid new product development, and managing NPD as a structured business process.
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