Product and Process Development
Our Process
Appreciative Design combines engineering systems analysis with optimization in a social network context that involves all relevant stakeholders as owners of objectives and/or constraints. Early mapping of the connections between functional requirement stakeholders and constraint stakeholders has proven to lead to more successful outcomes.
Purpose-directed experiments and data analysis can enable lower cost research to produce work products in the form and content needed by specific audiences rather than only generally contributing to the scientific/technical literature.
This process ensures the customer needs come first.
Your Specification
Data generation, hardware design, or process design – you are in control.
You need data? We can design and execute experiments with accepted and recognized scientific rigor to generate that data for you.
Hardware doesn’t exist for your application? Our team of engineers can work with you specifications to develop and prototype solutions for you.
Not sure what process you need to reach a certain outcome? Our team works with your stakeholders to develop the data and processes you need to make appropriate decisions for biomaterial processing and more.
Your Success
Working with our customers we have successfully completed many data generation, product design, and process development projects. A small sample includes:
DARPA forward operating base waste processor
Capacitive moisture sensor
Cubical Triaxial Tester for Biomass Materials
Mechanisms of Failure During Shear Cutting of Wood
Angle of repose measurement tools
Evaluation of alternative gathering and transportation systems for arborist tree trimmings
Mass loss and decay rate for bulk urban vegetation chips at various moisture levels and air flows
Flavorants from thermally modified wood
Case studies
Customer: Idaho National Lab
Project: Lightweight Material Processors for Forward Operating Bases
Participating in a DARPA funded project, we designed and constructed ultra light-weight low-power consuming size reduction units. The project goals included recapturing the energy from wastes at these remote bases.
Customer: Washington State University
Project: Compact Flash Hydrolysis Reactor Design and Fabrication
Working closely with project PI Dr. Bin Yang of WSU we designed and fabricated a prototype batch Compact Flash Hydrolysis reactor to the specifications derived from years of WSU research and intellectual property.
