Research and innovation are essential to keep European industry at the forefront globally. Innovative products and design can create new market opportunities. Breakthrough technologies can deliver resource and energy efficiency, contributing to the European targets and objectives set in these areas.
Currently, the ceramic sector outstands for being rudimentary and stagnant. It has few and limited innovation proposals.
Until the moment, in the tile industry, the process to design the ceramic bodies consists of several steps that must be processed in an efficient and controlled manner to achieve the wanted results. The selection process of raw materials does not depend just on oxides, but also the physical characteristics, interactions and costs arising from the material for the outcome of the final product.
Traditionally this process is carried out with the method of trial and error, which can be associated with a higher cost of production or a decrease of quality, derived from an improper selection of raw materials and/or formulations.
The proposal of this project is a new technology that combines modelling, simulation and mathematical optimization as an alternative to trial-error procedure. Computer engineering will combine a self-awareness concept with the ceramic know-how, suitable to find solutions in a complex and heterogeneous system.
In contrast to the slow and full of error methods used until the moment, Neos proposes to overcome Excel files and manual operations with artificial intelligence technology that can provide fast solutions, focusing on obtaining the maximum cost reduction and increasing quality of the outcomes.
