- Acoustic imaging
- Actuator design
- Advanced materials processing
- Autonomous robots
- Bio-process development & industrialization
- Chemical Formulation for coatings
- Chemical surface modification
- Clever data acquisition
- Coating material formulations
- Contactless sensing solutions
- Design for connectivity
- Design for sustainability
- EcoDesign workshops
- Eco-friendly materials
- Electro motor selection
- Electronics design
- Energy saving potential scan
- Ergonomics for monitors
- Failure mechanics
- Functional design solutions
- Heating and cooling
- High-Frequency inductive heating
- High Speed Digital Electronics
- Human behavior analysis
- Identification of resonance issues
- Improved control performance
- Individual coaching
- Industrial software engineering
- Industrial Vision
- Infrared pyrometry
- Integral designs
- Interconnect processes
- Interim support
- Laser welding
- Lifecycle assessment
- Low cost by calibration
- Low-cost motion control systems
- Lubrication selection
- Machine learning and calibration
- Machine maintenance planning
- Machining
- Machining of materials
- Magnetic designs
- Magnetic levitation
- Materialography by optical microscopy
- Measurement of shock resistance
- Mechanical testing
- Mechanical behavior
- Mechanical interface failures
- Mechatronic problem identification
- Micro-dosing of (bio)materials
- (Micro) Fluidic applications
- Microfluidic evaluation
- Miniaturization of functions
- Motion control implementation
- Motion control selection
- Motion control tuning
- Multiphysics
- Optical design
- Optical engineering
- Optical metrology
- Optical modeling
- Position measurement design
- Product cost minimization
- Product fragility & packaging design
- Product market research
- Product supply strategies
- Quality & realiability of electronic products
- Real-time motion control
- Remote handling with natural feeling
- Roadmaps for success
- Simplify your motion/sensor connection
- Software architectural scan
- Software System & Product control
- Solving thermal performance issues
- Supplier assessment
- Supplier cost price analysis
- Supply market research
- Thermal characterization
- Thermal design in system architecture
- Ultrasonic welding of plastic parts
- Understanding thermal performance
- Use case
- User interface support
- User research
- Visualization of ideas
- Wearable sensor solutions
Acoustic imaging
Component level localization of noise / vibration sources
Philips Innovation Services locates the noise-sources in your product using acoustic imaging techniques.Component level noise sources down to 1mm2 can be detected.
Benefits:
- Time-effective measurement methods
- near-instant data post-processing
- use of microphone arrays leads to short measurement time
- Detailed noise-source detection
Actuator design
From a simple lens-actuator to a complex planar motor
Do you need tailor-made electromagnetic actuator solutions? Philips Innovation Services offers consultancy and specialists support from specifications to the design and development of actuator and magnetic system solutions. Several major motor companies are producing our designs.
Benefits:
- Unique actuator designs suiting system specifications
- Motor companies increase their product variety with our design support
Advanced materials processing
Application and processing of advanced materials
Philips Innovation Services has considerable experience in the field of processing of advanced materials. Practical knowledge of machining, forming, welding, soldering heat treatment, coating etc. is available in order to apply novel materials using their functional benefits in various application fields.
Benefits:
- Component design with tailored materials properties
- Exploring the unique and/or tailored properties of novel materials like composites and structural foams
Autonomous robots
Implementation of goal-oriented algorithms
Philips Innovation Services delivers consultancy, specialist support and design of algorithms for use in autonomous robots. Functions that can be implemented are: autonomous navigation in an unknown changing environment, map building, self localization, path planning & execution and prioritized goal selection.
Benefits:
- Implementable specific functions
- Enabling unique end-user selling points
Bio-process development & industrialization
Translating your concept into a product
The development of bio-chemical applications (like In-Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) or point of care applications) needs an integral approach of biochemists, process and equipment engineers. Philips Innovation Services has an integral approach to develop bio-chemical applications. Special equipment and controlled environmental rooms are available.
Benefits:
- Knowledge of biosensors for immunoassays and devices for molecular diagnostics
- Use of Design for Six Sigma methodology for structural development and improvement
Chemical Formulation for coatings
Creating functionality within applications
Philips Innovation Services has experience in changing properties and surface of products.We have practical knowledge of adapting chemical composition of coatings for better control during the application and creating functionalities, like color, conducting and wetability. Various coated lens colors
Benefits:
- Reliable processing
- Improved product properties
Chemical surface modification
Add functionality to the surface of your product
Philips Innovation Services has considerable experience in changing the surface of products via chemical reactions by applying extremely thin layers. We have practical knowledge of adapting the physical behavior of layers/interfaces chemically and obtaining (prolonged) stability in the application. Flame retardant transparent coatings
Benefits:
- Improve the surfaces of products like; clean-ability, flame retarding and controlling the interface with other materials
- Adhesion or release control
Clever data acquisition
Sensor selection and processing
Philips Innovation Services has extensive experience in selection and use of many types of sensors (simple physics, arrays sensors and MEMS). We deliver consultancy, specialist support and designs for sensor and algorithm combinations. Robustness and cost efficiency are improved by smart filtering / combining / comparing of sensor signals.
Benefits:
- Robustness enhancement
- Cost price reduction
- Enabling (new) senses
Coating material formulations
Adjust material properties to the right application
Philips Innovation Services has considerable experience in material formulations for various application methods e.g. dispensing, spraying, inkjet, dipping and printing, which is mostly applied in the early phase of product development. Formulations can eventually be transferred to material suppliers. Inkjet of thin layers
Benefits:
- Formulation developed for specific properties of applications
- Optimize viscosity and flow control
Contactless sensing solutions
Measuring without touching
Philips Innovation Services has over 30 years experience in design and realization of contactless (capacitive) sensor systems, from wide range person contour or presence detection to ultra high precision displacement.
Benefits:
- Wide range of contactless and invisible detection techniques
- Very flexible geometry & range design freedom
Design for connectivity
Making a set of physically separated devices collaborate
Philips Innovation Services have long experience with distributed systems. We have platforms for simple control systems, data measurement and collection systems, IP-based systems, client-server systems, etc. Our support ranges from help in selecting the right wired/wireless communication technology and module up to making a full distributed system design.
Benefits:
- Best trade-off between cost, size, weight, bandwidth and power, based on extensive hands-on experience with (wireless) communication
- Design of distributed systems integrating off-the-shelf technologies
Design for sustainability
Taking into account the complete product lifecycle incl. end of life
Conscious design choices have a big impact on cost and CO2 footprint throughout the lifecycle. At Philips Applied Technologies design for sustainability is both multidisciplinary and integral: Multidisciplinary because knowledge of eco-friendly materials, energy consumption and eco-design principles are taken into account. Integral because design choices in the concept phase are linked to packaging, supply chain and the product disposal at end-of-life.
Benefits:
- Multidisciplinary because knowledge of eco-friendly materials, energy consumption and eco-design principles are taken into account.
- Integral because design choices in the concept phase are linked to packaging, supply chain and the product disposal at end-of-life.
- Realization of a cheaper concept with easier usage
- Minimizing environmental impact and costs during functional lifetime & disposal
EcoDesign workshops
Get introduced in "Green Thinking"
Many companies want to go "Green", but struggle to translate this high level intention into concrete ideas and actions. Philips Innovation Services offers dedicated workshops which explain the basic concepts of sustainability and EcoDesign. These concepts are turned into concrete ideas related to companies' products during the workshops.
Benefits:
- Sustainability and EcoDesign explained in a practical way.
- Translate high level "Green" intention into concrete ideas.
Eco-friendly materials
Support to enable use of eco-friendly materials
Philips Innovation Services has knowledge to select appropriate materials within the framework of commercial, functional and system requirements for the product. An integral approach to material characterization, product design, mechanical testing and end-of life strategy, enables product design with a minimum impact on the earths' natural environment.
Benefits:
- Living an eco-vision while maintaining product quality
- Reduction of CO2 footprint
Electro motor selection
The optimal motor selection related to your application
Benefits:
- Motor type (asynchronous, brushless, AC, DC, stepper, etc.)
- Cost price - Motor characteristics
- Cost savings due to perfect motor match for the application
- First-time-right motor selection
Electronics design
Design of dedicated electronics for sensors
Philips Innovation Services has more than 30 years experience in the design of demanding sensing solutions within Philips and associated high-tech companies. Our applications coverage ranges from AD conversion and digital processing to high-resolution and high-stability capacitive sensor electronics.
Benefits:
- Fast focusing to the most optimal solution
- Fast prototyping to prove the validity of the designs
Energy saving potential scan
Reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions in production
A site can be reviewed on energy consumption and CO2 reduction The following steps will be considered: quick scan (to establish the potential for a well managed approach), energy action team, energy reduction plan (targets, organization, schedule, finance) and execution of energy saving projects.
Benefits:
- Lower cost of operation
- Competitive advantage
Ergonomics for monitors
Automatic adaptation of monitor settings
Benefits:
- User interface that adapts to user
- Better ergonomic usage of devices.
Failure mechanics
Design of dedicated electronics for sensors
Philips Innovation Services has world-class knowledge in the field of application specific failure mechanics to understand, predict and prevent fracture, delamination and fatigue failures. Our experts combine state-of-the-art numerical and experimental failure analysis to achieve optimized product reliability.
Benefits:
- First-time right product design
- Enhanced product reliability
- Reduced cost of non-quality
Functional design solutions
Finding the optimal concept for mechanical designs using Design Principles
Benefits:
- First-time-right design concepts leading to reduced development effort
- time effective
- cost effective
- Experienced & methodological approach
Heating and cooling
A heating and cooling solution to fit your application
Philips Innovation Services offers customer independent advice on heating and cooling solutions which gives the best fit for customer applications by added focus on: Technical feasibility Cost price Manufacturing / Design in
Benefits:
- Technical feasibility
- Cost price
- Manufacturing / Design in
- Fit your application
- Broad range of technology know-how
High-Frequency inductive heating
Contactless, fast and controlled heating of conducting materials
Benefits:
- Contactless, local and controlled heat
- High heating rates and throughput
High Speed Digital Electronics
Reliable design of high speed digital boards
Our high speed digital board design result in first time right, reliable high performance digital boards. Simulations ensure the signal and power integrity up to the Gigahertz domain. Programmable digital circuits such as FPGAs and memories are used to give the board the required functionality.
Benefits:
- Robust design by pre and post simulation
- Insight in fast signals of the board in the Gigahertz domain
- Design EMC compliant
Human behavior analysis
Detection, tracking and/or recognition of people
Computer vision algorithms can retrieve biometric information from persons in images and video. This information, such as body positions, movements or facial features, is used to detect, track and recognize persons and their behavior.
Benefits:
- Automated recognition of persons, their behavior and intentions, and events
Identification of resonance issues
Where do the vibrations come from?
We offer a range of methods to locate and quantify your vibration sources and analyze the propagation paths of the vibrations. We have equipment available that ranges from simple 1D vibration sensors up to 3D contactless automated sensor systems.
Benefits:
- Understanding of vibration in your application
- Wide range of measurement equipment available
Improved control performance
Factor ten performance improvement for repeating tasks
Philips Innovation Services has vast experience with Iterative Learning Control (ILC) in different application areas. ILC enables you to greatly improve the control performance for repeating tasks, often a factor ten. A type of feed forward control is used to eliminate all the reproducible parts of the servo error.
Benefits:
- Optimized servo performance for repeating tasks.
- Robust and easy calibration.
Individual coaching
Helping you out in your darkest days
Philips Innovation Services delivers specialists to coach you in enhancing your qualities and experiences in the field of architectural and project management approach. Intensive one to one sessions allow specific training and short feedback loops. Direct results have been created in a wide area of businesses, from high-end precision systems to fast moving consumer goods production
Benefits:
- Integral learning, mapping skills and competences to needs on the job
- One-to-one sessions, with clear entry and exit definitions on assignment and responsibilities
Industrial software engineering
Software development for mechatronic environment
Philips Innovation Services supports you in software architecture and software design for real-time environments. We deliver developments ranging from single aspects of software like program language to integral solutions. This is based on knowledge of architectural/design patterns, development environment, development processes and configuration management
Benefits:
- Cost-effective development of your mechatronic software.
- Total software development possible at one-stop shop
Industrial Vision
Apply inspection systems in production process
Philips Innovation Services develops robust high-speed and high-precision surface, geometric and cosmetic inspection systems. This can be turn-key solutions with human machine interaction offering the optimal choice for optics, illumination and (intelligent) camera platforms. Our solutions are applicable from research laboratories up to and including in-line production processes.
Benefits:
- Improve yield by constant product quality inspection
- 100% product measurement provides traceable product data
Infrared pyrometry
Contactless temperature measurements of surfaces
Benefits:
- Spatially resolved temperature images
- Knowledge and equipment available at your service
Integral designs
Balancing and optimization
Creating successful products means balancing between the needs of all stakeholders (end-users, business, production, service, etc.) Philips Innovation Services delivers consultancy, specialist support and development expertise to achieve optimal integral designs through close cooperation with your teams
Benefits:
- First time right designs, creating optimal value for all stakeholders
- Adding on-demand specialist support and experience for out-of-bound analyses and designs
Interconnect processes
Electrical interconnect design, verification and trouble-shooting
Philips Applied technologies can support you in finding the best material and electrical interconnect processes depending on your requirements. We cover technologies like soldering, wire bonding, conductive adhesives, thermo-compression and thermo-sonic interconnect technologies.
Benefits:
- Best solution fitting the requirements
- Various equipment in-house
Interim support
Technical architect and / or project lead
Philips Innovation Services delivers specialists to support you in reaching technical solutions within time constraints. Translation of roadmaps into choices of technical architectures and implementing these. Specific help is possible on aspects such as requirements elicitation, function deployment, technology choice, interface definition and supply chain alignment.
Benefits:
- Access to international and broad experience
- Specific needs and know-how readily available within our organization
Laser welding
Contactless joining by light
Laser welding can be applied on various materials, such as metals and plastics. This enables product functionalities like hermetical sealing, optical behavior and thermal conductivity without contacting. Our way of working is to optimize the weld by taking into account process, materials and design for assembly by using a wide range of laser equipment.
Benefits:
- Non-contact method, less pollution
- A high-precision, reliable solution
Lifecycle assessment
Quantifying the environmental impact of products and services
Lifecycle assessment (LCA) enables to quantify the impact that a product/service has during its lifecycle on the environment. This is a basis for any improvement cycle to reduce the carbon footprint. Philips Innovation Services has professional software and an extensive database available as well as specialized consultants with a long track record of conducting LCAs.
Benefits:
- LCA gives insight into possible improvement areas
- LCA can prove that a new product is indeed greener than its predecessor/reference
Low cost by calibration
Optimal designed calibrations for products & equipment
Designing a total calibration procedure leads to optimal product and equipment performance. Based on a calibration model of your system, a good balance between accurate parts, assembly adjustments and data acquisition costs is possible. Philips Innovation Services delivers consultancy, specialist support and integral designs for calibrations.
Benefits:
- Cost savings
- Improved performance
Low-cost motion control systems
Cost effective motion control solutions that fit in your hand
Philips Innovation Services offers consultancy and specialists support for design and development of flexible motion control solutions, where the price of motion is minimized for the desired performance. Multi-disciplinary design and analysis techniques to: reduce system cabling lower electronic and software costs minimize electronic footprint and maximize digital controller performance
Benefits:
- reduce system cabling
- lower electronic and software costs
- minimize electronic footprint and
- maximize digital controller performance
- Discriminating market advantage with a low-cost and compact-sized solution
- High system reliability and flexibility that will reduce maintenance costs and enable future product extensions
Lubrication selection
Independent specialist support on lubrication selection
We offer you advice that is independent of any supplier on: lubrication selection / replacement service intervals
Benefits:
- lubrication selection / replacement
- service intervals
- Independent advise
- Maximize machine/product lifetime & reliability
Machine learning and calibration
Get the best out of your controller by automatic optimization
Philips Innovation Services has developed automated algorithms for the calibration of the crucial control parameters in your motion system. The performance can even be optimized during operation, thereby adapting the control parameters continuously to system properties that may change over time. We call this "machine learning and calibration."
Benefits:
- No modification of control system hardware needed.
- Imperfections in medium class components can be compensated.
Machine maintenance planning
Cost-effective preventive maintenance is better than down-times
Our tribologists offer you advise that is independent of any supplier on: machine maintenance planning and logistics optimized lubrication usage / reduction of lubrication types
Benefits:
- machine maintenance planning and logistics
- optimized lubrication usage / reduction of lubrication types
- Cost-effective preventive maintenance -minimum machine/product down-time
- maximum machine/product lifetime & reliability
Machining
Material removal, thinning and separation
Philips Innovation Services is an enabling partner to generate demonstrators, proof of concepts in the early stage of projects and pilot production during manufacturing start-up. We work as advisors to the industry to generate, rank and select customer specific process scenarios and/or alternatives and develop and optimize customer specific machining processes.
Benefits:
- Wide variety of machining, measuring and analyzing techniques in-house and in our clean room
- Knowledge and network to external machining technologies
Machining of materials
Shaping of any material by means of machining
Philips Innovation Services stands for shaping by removal of matter for unconventional materials and specifications.Various technologies like dicing, grinding, laser-ablation, laser-/water jet-/conventional cutting, and powder blasting are available to shape any material towards your requirements.
Benefits:
- Various support roles possible:
- enabling partner
- consultant
- knowledge base
Magnetic designs
Magnetic circuit and shielding: designs, modeling and testing
Philips Innovation Services offers consultancy and support in defining specifications, design, modeling and testing of magnetic system solutions. We have a broad spectrum of experience ranging from simple magnetic clamping solutions to MRI coils and magnetic shielding in mGauss levels.
Benefits:
- Optimal magnetic design
- Magnetic shielding solutions
Magnetic levitation
Linear and rotary motion can be sustained by means of magnetic levitation without the necessity of mechanical bearings. This allows for maintenance-free and disturbance-isolated system solutions, possibly with a high positioning accuracy. The gravity effect is compensated without external energy use.
Benefits:
- Maintenance free
- High accuracy
Materialography by optical microscopy
Looking into the material to understand it
Philips Innovation Services has both the knowledge and equipment to study material properties like structure, grain size and layer thickness. The properties of materials such as plastics, glass, ceramics and metals as well as interconnects of these materials can be studied by optical microscopy on all kind of mismatches. Generally such studies are performed in cross-section. Correct cross-section sample preparation is the key factor to obtain valuable information on these materials.
Benefits:
- Knowledge on quality (porosity, layer thickness, particle size)
- Short term support
Measurement of shock resistance
Reproducible verification of product fragility
Philips Innovation Services is experienced in performing relevant measurements on shock resistance of products. Typical tools used are a pendulum setup for reproducible results, a shock table, acceleration sensors and a high-speed camera.
Benefits:
- Validated product reliability
- Root cause analysis of failure
Mechanical testing
Measurement of the mechanical material properties
Philips Applied Technology has a large range of testing facilities which enables determination of many mechanical properties of all solid materials. Both standard and custom-made test set-ups are used for mechanical and materials consultancy.
Benefits:
- Independent test results based on application-focused tests
Mechanical behavior
Control the mechanical behavior of your product and process
Getting into control and optimizing the mechanical behavior of your product and process is about predicting this behavior in the design stage or adapting and improving it in a subsequent stage. Philips Innovation Services has powerful numerical (FEM), experimental tools and expertise available for this purpose.
Benefits:
- First time right product & process design
- Improved mechanical functionality
Mechanical interface failures
Virtual Prototyping to improve reliability and understand failures
Philips Innovation Services is experienced in the field of application specific fracture mechanics. Our experts predict and investigate failure mechanisms, like interface delamination and cracking, to achieve improvement of product reliability.
Benefits:
- First-time right product design
- Reduced cost of non-quality
Mechatronic problem identification
Analysis and trouble shooting of mechatronic systems
Philips Innovation Services offers support in trouble shooting mechatronic systems. A preliminary investigation is made by an experienced system integrator. From there, a specialist can take over the investigation if needed. Specialists in a large variety of disciplines are available.
Benefits:
- Fast system level identification of complex problems
- Specialists available for in-depth analysis
Micro-dosing of (bio)materials
High precision low volume liquid handling of (bio)materials
Philips Innovation Services has extended knowledge and experience in various dispense and micro-dose platforms. We can precisely apply a very low amount of (bio) material on a (microarray) product. This platform also includes aspiration and / or dispensing of a dynamic range of viscosities and volumes (picoliter - microliter).
Benefits:
- Process and equipment development for micro dosing of (bio) materials
- High degree of accuracy and inline process control by dosing equipment with vision and marker recognition.
(Micro) Fluidic applications
Contact angle measurements & determination of fluidic properties
Philips Innovation Services is able to determine the characteristics of surfaces to predict the behavior of fluid on it. There is knowledge of many treatments of surfaces to influence the behavior of fluids or to enable (micro)fluidic flows.
Benefits:
- Fluid behaves predictable
- Product-cost reduction or improved functionality
Microfluidic evaluation
Flexible video based evaluation for debugging and quality control
Fast development of microfluidic applications requires fast testing and evaluation of prototypes or products. Philips Applied Technologies has a microfluidic evaluation system which analyses liquid flow in small series of devices. This system supports the optimization of micro fluidic structure within the design by collecting video data.
Benefits:
- Fast characterization of liquid flow in microfluidic devices
- Automated data collection for evaluation / documentation of behavior of products
Miniaturization of functions
Design of miniaturized mechatronic product functions
Philips Innovation Services offers support to miniaturize product functions based on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and Micro System Technology (MST). The functions often consist of detection, actuation, controlling and manipulating using mechanical, electrical and optical principles.
Benefits:
- Very small (up to 10 mm) overall dimensions
- High integration, high performance
Motion control implementation
Bringing your mechatronic system to life
Philips Innovation Services guides you through the selection of the right of-the-shelf motion control software and hardware. Furthermore, we are able to come up with solutions, where off-the-shelf solutions are not satisfactory. Next to selection and design, we can assist you in implementation and testing.
Benefits:
- Motion control solution tailored to your needs
- Independent advise
Motion control selection
Philips Innovation Services delivers consultancy in the area of (commercial) motion control systems ranging from low to high-end systems. Our knowledge on different applications and solutions in electronics and control is used to determine optimal performance for your application. This includes hardware selection and control implementation.
Benefits:
- Supplier independent
- Optimized motion control
Motion control tuning
Getting your system within spec
Lacking servo performance or robustness? Philips Innovation Services control engineers can tune your controller to your specifications. We carry out an identification experiment on your system, tune the controller offline and finally we take care of the implementation of the new settings. This process often takes as little as a single day.
Benefits:
- Robust and relevant performance
- Minimum machine down time thanks to offline tuning
Multiphysics
Short design cycle by validated modeling and simulations
Benefits:
- Short design cycle
- Insight in product behavior before production
Optical design
Get your optical system realized
Benefits:
- Extensive experience with the design of a broad range of optical systems
- Access to many parties for realization
Optical engineering
A quick realization of your optical prototype
Philips Innovation Services has a broad competence of integrating optics in complex systems including thermal and mechanical constraints and the needed tools for simple optical design. We also have lab spaces available with optical modules for testing the illumination and imaging optics.
Benefits:
- Quick verification of an optical solution
- Extensive experience base on a wide range of optical prototypes
Optical metrology
Customized optical metrology solutions
In current products, accurate measurements on shapes become more and more important. At Philips Innovation Services we have optical metrology equipment for these measurements. We have also the knowledge to build your customized optical metrology solution to measure shapes or displacements using Displacement Measurement Interferometry.
Benefits:
- Fast and reliable measurement results, using available equipment
- Customized solutions possible
Optical modeling
Steering the light where you want it
Philips Innovation Services can simulate how light propagates through systems. We can design lenses and reflectors to get the light where you need it. Both in imaging systems as well as in non-imaging systems.
Benefits:
- Customized illumination solutions
- In-depth understanding of optical systems
Position measurement design
Philips Innovation Services is experienced in choosing and evaluating architectural concepts for metrology performance. We deliver consultancy, specialist support and integral designs for metrology. In the early system design phase of products and equipment, complex design decisions are needed to minimize measurement uncertainties (for example Abbe errors). We make and apply metrology models to support these decisions.
Benefits:
- First time right design
- Specialist know how readily accessible
Product cost minimization
Integrate small form-factor functions suitable for mass-production
Philips Innovation Services has experience in reducing product costs by miniaturization of product functions based on technologies such as Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and Micro System Technology (MST). These technologies are very applicable for mass production with low cost of goods.
Benefits:
- Low repeat costs
- Very small (mm) overall dimensions
Product fragility & packaging design
Design optimization for increased shock resistance
Philips Innovation Services is experienced in analyzing and improving shock resistance of products. This includes advise on packaging design. Optimized packaging design can lead to increased product reliability. Furthermore, it can enable lower shipping costs.
Benefits:
- Faster design release
- Increased product reliability
- Lower packaging/shipping costs
Product market research
Identifying the best potential suppliers
The global supply market offers endless opportunities, but identifying the right suppliers remains a challenge. Philips Innovation Services offers supply market research services to identify a shortlist of potential suppliers that can really meet your needs.
Benefits:
- Access to Philips world-wide supply base.
- New suppliers that really support achieving your company goals.
Product supply strategies
Identifying future Supply Market Potential
Your suppliers form a basis for the long term success of your organization, formulating strategies for your key supply markets will secure maximum future value from your supply base. Philips Innovation Services offers a framework and support for reviewing your key supply markets and defining the right strategic approach.
Benefits:
- Clarity on what needs to be done with your supply base in the coming years
- Identification of the long term potential of the global supply market
Quality & realiability of electronic products
Lifetime prediction (mainly of soldered interconnections)
Philips Innovation Services provides Quality & Reliability expertise to achieve less costs and better products. We offer both experts and access to laboratory equipment to cover reliability issues of electronic systems and manufacturing processes. This includes modeling techniques.
Benefits:
- Design-in of quality and reliability
- Less field calls
Real-time motion control
Philips Innovation Services delivers consultancy in getting your (industrial) motion control system operational. We use our knowledge on real-time operating systems and motion algorithms to your advantage. This enables solutions from single path and trajectory planning to complex combinations of multiple systems working synchronized.
Benefits:
- Transferring established high-end solutions to cost effective applications
Remote handling with natural feeling
Implementation of manipulators with force feedback
Philips Innovation Services delivers consultancy, specialist support and designs for implementing sensors, actuators and/or haptic feedback control algorithms for remote handling. System performance is improved by adapting the input device to the way users usually execute the task.
Benefits:
- Natural feeling (force feedback)
- Input devices tailored to the task, giving unique selling point
Roadmaps for success
Philips Innovation Services delivers consultancy and specialist support for technical system architectures from consumer devices to high-end systems by: creating flexibility in designs and roadmaps. integral approach, including aspects on: supply chain, testing, service, etc. working with your teams for quick and efficient implementation
Benefits:
- creating flexibility in designs and roadmaps.
- integral approach, including aspects on: supply chain, testing, service, etc.
- working with your teams for quick and efficient implementation
- Architectures that are robust for future requirements, creation of roadmaps
- Linking product definitions, technologies and business demands
Simplify your motion/sensor connection
Philips Innovation Services helps you to implement real-time distributed systems with centralized control via Ethernet. This replaces complex cable bundles and gives flexibility in hardware configuration. We deliver real-time motion solutions with distributed inputs / outputs based on EtherCAT software master stack. The centralized control allows for tightly synchronized outputs at different locations.
Benefits:
- Reduced wiring
- Reduced cost
- Reduced risk
- Environmental friendly
- Flexible solution
Software architectural scan
Assist in making robust digital software systems
At Philips Innovation Services, we have experience in many different software applications, like : low footprint / high performance, web based client / server , real-time / high-bandwidth / low-latency networking and control applications (simple and complex, small and large). Our experience means that we can support you with your software architecture to create reliable complex software.
Benefits:
- Robust digital software systems
- Reworking existing code and getting it to work
Software System & Product control
A software platform which speed up product and equipment development
Benefits:
- Prototype verification based on user defined experiments (no dedicated software development required)
- Minimum programming effort and automatic user interface generation
Solving thermal performance issues
Fast and efficient modeling of thermal behavior
Philips Innovation Services is experienced in static and dynamic thermal analysis using various methods. Our services range from a simple analysis up to and including complicated FEM analyses, whatever is necessary.
Benefits:
- Predictable/increased system performance
- First-time-right thermal design
Supplier assessment
Independent evaluation of your (potential) supplier
The performance of your current and future suppliers has a direct impact on your bottom line financial results and efficiency. Philips Innovation Services offers independent supplier assessments using Philips' proven tools and experience to identify areas for supplier improvement and potential supplier performance risks to be addressed.
Benefits:
- Identification of supplier performance improvement actions
- Identification of supply chain risks and advice on mitigation strategies
Supplier cost price analysis
Calculate your supplier's product should-cost price
Suppliers' product pricing is a determining factor for your Bill of Material costs - keeping a downward pressure on this pricing is often essential for maintaining your competiveness. Philips Innovation Services offers analysis/calculation of the supplier's product should-cost and gives insight into potential cost reduction opportunities.
Benefits:
- Identification of cost reduction potential
- Negotiation leverage towards your suppliers
Supply market research
Identifying the best potential suppliers
The global supply market offers endless opportunities, but identifying the right suppliers remains a challenge. Philips Innovation Services offers supply market research services to identify a shortlist of potential suppliers that can really meet your needs.
Benefits:
- Access to Philips world-wide supply base
- New suppliers that really support achieving your company goals
Thermal characterization
Thermal emissivity and temperature measurement
Benefits:
- Increased live time of critical components or/and cost reduction by reducing the thermal specification.
Thermal design in system architecture
Understanding thermal behavior of systems
Philips Innovation Services supports you in identification of and dealing with thermal effects in systems. This can be done by means of thermal design principles, modeling, control or validation experiments.
Benefits:
- Increased system performance
- First-time-right thermal design
Ultrasonic welding of plastic parts
Design your product and process for US welding
Benefits:
- Both risk analysis and advise capabilities.
- Capability to set up the process, independent of the equipment supplier.
Understanding thermal performance
Prediction of dynamic performance
Philips Innovation Services has experience in predicting and understanding the dynamic behavior of systems that range from nanometer accuracy equipment to low cost consumer products. A short analysis can show whether your design is likely to fulfill the dynamic requirements.
Benefits:
- Early design verification
- Behavior understanding
Use case
Get insight in the way a product can be used
Benefits:
- Insight in impact of product functionalities on your final product
- Communication tool
User interface support
Create innovative solutions with the end user in mind
Philips Innovation Services generates and explores solutions which can be translated into tangible demonstrators that show the usage. We may support you in designing and implementing the user interface and deliver a working prototype. We can evaluate the solutions and highlight strengths, weaknesses and opportunities.
Benefits:
- Insight in opportunities for development
- Solutions evaluated from both technical and usage standpoint
User research
Find out what people want
By testing in an early stage of the development an evaluation can be used to give a better direction for further development of the product Philips Innovation Services can help you to identify the consumer needs and user behavior on a product. This can be done by testing mock ups or prototypes.
Benefits:
- Get insight in consumer needs
- Decrease development time
Visualization of ideas
Use an artist impression for your communication
Philips Innovation Services can help you to concrete your ideas by visualizing. This can be done for single ideas but it can also be done in a brainstorm session. Make ideas visible by getting them on paper to start a discussion before real money is spend.
Benefits:
- Concrete ideas on paper for communication
Wearable sensor solutions
Find cheap sensors and integrate them fast
Today, persons are surrounded by watches, mobiles, mp3 players, smart clothes in which sensors play an important role. Philips Innovation Services has an extended knowledge on sensors and integrating sensors. We search for the most optimal solutions in cost price and functionality.
Benefits:
- Wide knowledge of sensors solution
- Simple but effective approach towards the optimal solution
