Expediting Product and Process Development with Workflow
Multi-scale and/or multi-disciplinary approach to process-product innovation
Keynote Lectures: Theme-3
Keywords: product development, process development, multiscale and hierarchical methodology, concurrent engineering, project management
An engineer faces numerous challenges in product and process development in the chemical industry. For one, product/ process data tend to be unreliable, incomplete, or nonexistent. Experiments are generally required to secure the necessary information. To execute these experiments effectively, modeling as well as physical insights is indispensable. Also, it is important that the suitable instruments and modeling tools be deployed in a timely fashion so as to achieve the design objectives with the least amount of time, effort and money. To this end, workflow needs to be devised to integrate conceptual design, modeling and experimentation. We have to identify what is achievable based on the available time, technological limit, and both human and monetary resources. Such a workflow is the key to reduce time-to-market in today’s competitive environment (Wibowo et al., 2003; Ng and Wibowo, 2003; Ng et al., 2005).
This presentation starts with workflow for product development in which the desirable product attributes are identified and realized. This is followed by a discussion of workflow for process development which integrates into a coherent whole systematic design and experimental procedures for reaction system synthesis, separation system synthesis, and solids processing. Selected examples including the manufacture of cosmetic creams, functional nanomaterials, dietary supplements, nanocomposites, etc. will be used throughout the presentation to illustrate the workflow strategy.
Presented Tuesday 18, 17:05 to 17:45, in session Keynote Lectures: Theme-3 (T3-K2).
