Test bed: testing new technologies
How to bring innovation to the market?
Innovation is perhaps the most important element of any company's competitiveness.
But a customer would only consider buying a new product or technology following a demonstration in an out–of-lab environment.
LEF represents an industrial chain, consisting of two model manufacturing companies – fully digitized – and all their services.
Here, new technologies are tested and validated for the impact they will have in the complex, everyday reality.
Our Use Case Program (UCP) is a unique platform and combines:
- Software (ERP, CRM, MES, …)
- Hardware (robots, cobots, 3D printers, milling cutters, machinery and tools for a wide range of machining operations)
- Skills in design thinking, lean manufacturing, six sigma and digital transformation
Why this program?
Startups, SMEs, and all types of companies can finally experience and validate in a complex, real-world environment their innovative solutions, show them to their potential customers, and implement them much more easily with those customers.
The Use Case Program (UCP) is a test field where clients can:
- deeply understand their customers’ needs and design the best user experience for their new solutions
- evaluate the maturity of new solutions
- design the integration with the real user environment
- validate and measure the benefits
- make the implementation in any other real context effective
The UCP team also provides expert know-how in design, lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and digital transformation to help companies introduce their solutions into the market in the most efficient way.
To whom we address
To companies at any stage of development, from startups to established companies, that have developed new technologies and products and need to evaluate the effectiveness of their project in the complexities of the real world.
What we offer
The flexibility of a model industrial value chain combined with the experience in digital transformation of consultants and internal trainers who accompany the client in the transition from a conceptual Proof of Value to a validated Proof of Concept.
The company has the opportunity to test, observe and modify their technological solutions in order to optimize the use of resources, work areas and production cycles through the elimination of wastes (MUDA), according to the lean six sigma methodology and the continuous improvement approach.
Stage 1: from technology to customer experience
The first stage of training includes a design thinking process that, starting with the technology in use, creates a prototype based on a use case.
Stage 2: test bed
The second stage starts from the current concept to obtain an engineering validation of data using an experimental protocol. A DOE (Design of Experiment) modeled on the use case allows for the implementation of the prototype within the test bed.
Stage 3: validation and show case
The third stage involves the implementation of the use case together with the prospect customer and the preparation of a communicable case that can be validated by third parties.
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