Database providing access to the High Technology Network's industrial research offering: research competences, type of analyses and tests available at the Laboratories. Companies can consult the Catalogue to find Laboratories and researchers that match their needs.
Competence
Algorithms and systems for fault detection
Algorithms for fault identification
Analysis of the physical, rheological, chemical, microbial, and sensorial properties during storage
Analysis of the time to failure of components and systems
Analytical tests for shelf-life characterization
Definition of product specifications and analytical methods of verification
Design for Maintenance e e-Maintenance
Design of experiment (DoE) and Food Design to study interaction between formulation and process conditions
e-maintenance: remote management of maintenance and fault
Experimental studies of formulations and processes: use of bioactive components from out-streams or by-products
Failure Mode and Effect Analysis - FMEA
Fault tolerant control
Fault Tree Analisys - FTA
Improvement of process efficiency for saving direct and indirect costs
Input-output correlations to assess operational parameters
Lab trails and scale-up to pilot plants of experimental production diagrams; check of the physical, chemical and sensorial characteristics
Microbial kinetics during food storage
Monitoring of chemical, physical, and biochemical characteristics (enzymatic activity and kinetics) during storage
Non-conventional thermal and non-thermal technologies for product stabilization, extraction, and conservation
Numerical simulation to define process-product interaction
On-line product control feasibility for process optimization
Operator practical training for process control and lab tests
Optimization of processing conditions by desing of experiments (DoE) for product development
Predictive maintenance
Product processing design: algorithms for automatic predictive control
Production flow chart, raw material HACCP and QFD, formulation, packaging and conservation conditions
Reliability
Scheduled maintenance
Self-diagnosis
Sensors for predictive maintenance
Signal processing for fault identification
Statistical control of the process
Thermal property measurement during processing steps and within container
Thermography
Training on regulations, legal requirement, guidelines, best practices
Tribological analysis
Vibration analysis