Effex

Did you know that car parts like dashboards and bumpers are often made from polypropylene? 🚗 It’s a great material—lightweight, affordable, and recyclable! But there’s a problem: polypropylene doesn’t naturally stick well to coatings or glues. That’s why gas plasma treatment is used to make it adhesive-friendly. The big question is: How to find the best treatment settings? 🔍 Producers must pick the right gas type, treatment time, flow rate, and power to make the process as quick and cost-effective as possible. With DoE, they could test different gases and settings (like power, time, and flow rate) in a systematic way to find the perfect fit. This data helped build an expert system that now recommends the best treatment for any blend of materials—no more guesswork or trial and error. Now, the industry has a reliable, efficient method for bonding polypropylene— ensuring budget and quality! 👉 Read more about how DoE tackled this challenge! https://lnkd.in/ejnjZGwS #PolypropyleneInnovation #GasPlasmaTreatment #AutomotiveSolutions #designofexperiments Effex

🍇🍈🍉 Using DoE to extract functional food ingredients from fruit and vegetable waste 🍅🍆🥕 One of challenges along the food supply chain is to reduce the food losses. One way to do so is to extract functional food ingredients from side streams in fruit and vegetable processing. One functional food ingredient that can be extracted from these side streams is pectin. Pectin serves as a thickening agent and stabilizer in food. ➡️ Ideally, the pectin extraction has a high yield and the extraction time is short. One promising technique is ultrasound-assisted extraction. To explore the possibilities of ultrasound-assisted extraction and to identify the optimal settings for the extraction in an efficient way, Elien De Laet, Tom Bernaerts, Kim De Cock en Ann M. Van Loey, Peter Goos (all KU Leuven) and Jose Núñez Ares ( Effex ) performed a designed experiment. A designed experiment is nothing but a smart, systematic data collection method, which provides a maximum of information concerning the relation between the settings of the extraction process and its yield. Designed experiments are also known as DoEs, which is short for design of experiments. The DoE approach eventually led to a pectin yield of 57.2%, while the conventional extraction only resulted in a pectin yield of 37.4%. The DOE approach indicated that, with the ultrasound-assisted extraction, it is also possible to obtain yields similar to those of the conventional extraction in much shorter extraction times. The experimental plan actually used for the study was a mixed-level OMARS experimental design to study the impact of six different extraction parameters on the pectin yield. The study showed that pH had the most pronounced effect on the pectin yield. However, also the solvent used, as well as the ultrasound intensity (time and temperature) impacted the yield substantially. OMARS experimental designs are available in the Effex software ➡️ see https://lnkd.in/e6n-Vim9. #FoodInnovation #SustainableExtraction #UltrasoundTech #PectinYield #optimization #designofexperiments

⏱ In which phases of innovation is the use of DoE critical? 🖥️ Design of Experiments (DoE) pioneer Bradley Jones provides valuable insights on when DoE becomes essential during the innovation process. Should DoE be incorporated in the early stages, or are there other stages further down the process where its use is crucial? Bradley's guidance is explored in part 4 of the series featuring this thought leader! When you're just thinking about something, you haven't done anything yet. It's, once you have a set of ideas about what you want to do, then DoE is important because you can find out which of the things that you think might be important are actually important in making what you want. DoE helps you determine which factors are actually important in making what you want, allowing you to focus on the most impactful elements and streamline your innovation process. 💡 In our 4-part series we talked with Bradley Jones and shared the most valuable insights on the importance and positive impact of DoE on research, development and production processes. 🎯 Head over to the full article and discover how you can improve with DoE: https://lnkd.in/dNK9tgmV #DoE #optimalprocesses #BradleyJones #Effex

🍞 Optimizing food production with DoE Behind every successful food product is a series of carefully conducted experiments. Design of Experiments (DoE) plays a vital role in optimizing food production, whether it’s perfecting a recipe or scaling up a process. By systematically exploring ingredient combinations and processing conditions, DoE helps food scientists and manufacturers deliver products that are both delicious and consistent. Imagine reducing waste, improving taste, and increasing shelf life—all while maintaining efficiency. That’s the power of DoE in the food industry. 🎯 Interested in how DoE can enhance food production? https://lnkd.in/eqCMaHmb

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 I’m thrilled to share that Effex will be attending Slush Helsinki 2024 together with Leuven MindGate 🚀✨ As one of the leading events for startup innovation and entrepreneurship, Slush is the perfect platform for us to connect, learn, and showcase our incredible journey. We’re looking forward to engaging with fellow innovators, potential partners, and investors who share our passion. If you’re attending, let’s connect! We love to exchange ideas and explore collaboration opportunities. Feel free to reach out to schedule a chat during the event. Stay tuned for updates and highlights from the event. Here’s to driving change and creating impactful solutions together! 🌍🤝 #Slush2024 #Startup #Innovation #Networking #Designofexperiments Looking forward to seeing you there!

🥇 Why DoE accelerates product or system innovation? 💎 Design of Experiments (DoE) pioneer Bradley Jones offers valuable insight on demonstrating cause and effect, and how this contributes to accelerating innovation. Absolutely. The efficiency of DoE is what makes it so exciting. Companies who use DoE in their innovation processes — whether creating a new product or system — can converge on their desired outcomes faster than with other methodologies. This speed and precision gives them a significant advantage in the market. 💡 In our 4-part series we talked with Bradley Jones and shared the most valuable insights on the importance and positive impact of DoE on research, development and production processes. 🎯 Head over to the full article and discover how you can improve with DoE: https://lnkd.in/eS6VgRGR #DoE #optimalprocesses #BradleyJones #Effex

Effex software is the work of many great junior and senior statisticians who have done groundbreaking work over the past years. We want to recognize the work of Dr. Alan Vázquez who did his PhD at the University of Antwerp in 2018 and show how academic work contributes to innovation in business software. Our data analytic tools are based on his work. Alan proposed an effective method to analyze data from screening experiments, which are used to find the factors that drive a quality characteristic (response) of a product or process. The philosophy behind the method is that the user can generate information on the important effects of the factors by looking at high-quality models that link them to the response. Interestingly, the method can be used to analyze general data sets with the goal of identifying the important variables among several. Alan is currently a research professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico. More on his research can be found on his website: https://lnkd.in/eEE2uiSi Download the scientific paper: A Mixed Integer Optimization Approach for Model Selection in Screening Experiments -> https://lnkd.in/ejRGftnT Peter Goos Jose Núñez Ares Dewi Van De Vyver #academics #statistics #optimization #modeling #designofexperiments

🚀 Today on meet the team: let us present to you Mohammed Saif Ismail Hameed He will be supporting Jose Núñez Ares with the scientific work Saif is a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven MeBioS research group (Mechatronics, Biostatisics and Sensors). He obtained a PhD for his work on design and analysis of experiments under the supervision of Prof. Peter Goos at KU Leuven, Belgium. He holds a masters degree in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Michigan, USA, and a bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Ramaiah Institute of Technology, India. He is a certified Black Belt from the University of Michigan in both Lean Six Sigma and Design for Six Sigma. Looking forward to our collaboration!! #start-up #team #collaboration #expanding

Our presence at the 🍁Fall Technical Conference🍁 in Nashville did not go unnoticed. We provided 3 talks on Design of Experiments and some more specifics on our OMARS designs and modeling and optimization techniques. A conference as the FTC gives us the chance to really dig deeper into the technicality of the methods used and to be questioned and challenged by experts. Having their by-in is very important for establishing trust. On the pictures: Minimally aliased D- and A-optimal Main-effects Designs by Mohammed Saif Ismail Hameed Analysis and optimization of experimental data from screening experiments with and without split-plot structure Jose Núñez Ares Optimal Experimental Designs for Process Robustness Studies Peter Goos If you would be interested in any of the above topics or have attended the presentation and would like to receive the slides, please reach out -> https://lnkd.in/etTdPry2 #designofexperiments #modeling #optimization #statistics #OMARS

👩💻 Why EFFEX's DoE software merits presence in the market 👨💻 Design of Experiments (DoE) pioneer Bradley Jones shares his insights on EFFEX and the rightful place this new DoE software holds in the market. His advice is highlighted in part 4 of the series featuring this thought leader! EFFEX has some really original ideas about how to create a little bit easier path for people to set up a designed experiment. More modern interface tools than other commercial software for creating design of experiments. So I think there's value in what EFFEX is trying to do. EFFEX introduces fresh ideas for simplifying the setup of designed experiments and offers more modern interface tools compared to other commercial software options. This innovative approach holds significant value. As a new company, EFFEX faces the challenge of establishing infrastructure to match its competitors' capabilities. Fortunately, in today's computing landscape, infrastructure can be developed rapidly, enabling EFFEX to swiftly realize its vision of powerful software for design of experiments. 💡 In our 4-part series we talked with Bradley Jones and shared the most valuable insights on the importance and positive impact of DoE on research, development and production processes. 🎯 Head over to the full article and discover how you can improve with DoE: https://lnkd.in/ePumq948 #DoE #optimalprocesses #BradleyJones #Effex