A project involves more than an instrument. Here are the subjects we work on, and the forms the work can take.
The sequencing sits on Our approach: four phases, four deliverables, a decision between each.
The subjects
Measurement
Choosing the technology, placing it at the right point of the process, designing the interface. One parameter per page.
Chemometrics
Building the model, bounding its domain of validity, knowing the sign that calls for a rebuild. What the word covers.
Design of experiments and modelling
Organising the trials and representing process behaviour, to predict rather than observe. The design space.
Process and formulation
What makes quality vary, and what can be acted upon. Critical parameters.
Real time release, in whole or in part
What it calls for, to hold before an auditor. Releasing on measurements already acquired.
Capability
Placing the process on a scale, and putting a figure on what each step up returns. What a control costs.
The forms the work takes
Consulting
A question asked, an argued answer, grounded in the texts and in what is actually practised.
The audit of an existing measurement
A written verdict and a recovery plan, on an instrument already installed. The four lines of examination.
Training, workshops and webinars
For the teams who run the measurement and justify a result. Training and autonomy.
Project support
We hold the thread from end to end, with your teams and our partners.
Implementation
From mechanical installation to connection, qualification and validation. Integration.
The equipment
The instrument can be rented for the length of a proof of concept, rented over time, or acquired at deployment.
Renting or acquiring: what decides
A short rental goes with a proof of concept. It gives access to the instrument for the length of the trials, with no commitment on what follows, which is what lets the decision rest on data rather than on a promise.
A long rental suits a measurement that has to run in production before the capital budget is settled, or a line that is itself temporary.
Acquisition becomes the answer as soon as the instrument is part of a qualified system and appears in a dossier: continuity of the hardware then becomes a condition of the validation.
In all three cases, the installation, the model development and the validation are carried the same way. What changes is how the instrument is held, not the work.
What “capability” means here
Capability measures the gap between what the process can hold and what the specifications ask for. It reads on indices — Pp, Cp, Ppk, Cpk — and it sits on a scale of steps.
The point is not the index itself, it is what moving from one step to the next represents in cost of poor quality avoided. That calculation is what turns a measurement project into an economic decision, and it is made on your data, at the scoping stage.
Which of these are you stuck on?
Forty-five minutes are enough to place your need, say whether a non-destructive measurement answers it, and which form of work to start with.