Product development & design

  • Compressor design (valves, mufflers, bearings, etc.);
  • Optimization considering efficiency, noise, vibration, cost, and reliability;
  • Product/process concurrent design and design for manufacturing and assembly;
  • Quality improvement by design and implementation of quality tools along the designing process;
  • Design of thermal systems via simulations & experimentation;
  • A bridge between academia and industry in cooperation projects.

Compressor/refrigerator concurrent development

  • Compressor and refrigeration system concurrent design;
  • Design to value with product savings coming from the proper balance among the characteristics, not just downgrading components;
  • Quality issues anticipated considering the potential interactions among the variables, reducing rework and loops;
  • Global optimum instead of a sum of local optima;
  • Component-level optimization taking into account the interactions among sub-systems.

Quality issues and problem-solving

  • Compressor & refrigeration system design and manufacturing quality issues solved by design;
  • Problem-solving taking into account technology and process restrictions, available resources and time;
  • Root cause determination by a third party, without the influence of parameters other than the purely technical ones;
  • Bridging R&D, Quality, and Manufacturing in the solution process, increasing focus and minimizing friction among departments;
  • Follow up until the final validation, i.e., until indicators from the field corroborate the problem is actually solved.

Intellectual property generation and management

  • Determination of the actual needs in terms of IP based on the company’s vision;
  • IP portfolio optimization considering vision, needs, strategy, and resources available;
  • Building up a lean, effective intellectual property portfolio, from idea collection to IP management;
  • Coaching on opportunities mapping and feasibility evaluation to build up the IP portfolio;
  • Continuous evaluation regarding all possible changes in the scenario (portfolio aging, competitors’ moves, impact of new technologies,etc.).

Technology monitoring, technology evaluation, risk analysis

  • Evaluation of possible threats and opportunities for the business via technology monitoring;
  • Evaluation of the company’s actual needs in terms of research based on technology scenario;
  • Mapping the technologies to be addressed and the indicators to follow up their development;
  • Depict the present and future applied technology landscape;
  • Evaluation of the actual potential and roadblocks of the different technologies;
  • Mapping short- and long-term risks of using or developing specific technologies;
  • Continuous evaluation of the risks and deployment into different action plans, depending on the concern and resources available.