Overview
SPX FLOW Innovation and Design Centers provide a state-of-the-art, collaborative space for customers to test, develop and perfect their critical manufacturing processes. These test facilities are intelligently designed to minimize waste, cost and development time in the product refinement process. SPX FLOW has more than 26 Innovation and Design Centers worldwide, which offer support from food technologists, product specialists, process and production engineers, electricians and other specialists.
Forming a new product with a competent competitive edge can be financially taxing due to the time, waste, and opportunity cost associated with the development of a product. Unfortunately, the immense cost associated with the refining of a product often results in failure, “failure rates of new food and drinks products [are] as high as 70%-80%.” As written in Hybrid Organizations: New Business Models for Environmental Leadership. According to 42% of the BCG 2015 Global Innovation Survey participants, the high rate of innovation failure is directly linked to long development times.
However, the SPX FLOW Innovation and Design Centers work specifically to mitigate the daunting time, opportunity and financial cost of developing a product. Our innovation centers employ cutting-edge production technologies and the deep expertise of process engineers. The innovation centers’ staffs are well-versed technologists, who have all accrued experience across several industries. The team at SPX FLOW will help develop a system that exactly fits any production needs. From designing the perfect texture and mouthfeel in the dairy industry to optimizing pharmaceutical production lines, SPX FLOW process engineers are dedicated to building efficient process solutions.
The SPX FLOW Innovation and Design Centers are the optimal environment for scaled process testing, hosting a wide range of scalable test equipment and a number of magnified analysis systems to support internal and external trials. This test environment is therefore perfectly suited for high-risk projects, allowing an externally “safe” environment to troubleshoot applications and products. Yet the SPX FLOW Innovation Centers are more than safely removed test environments; they each offer a set of additional services and uses. Each manufacturing test environment offers product line optimization to reach the maximum yield and standard of quality, applied training courses, scale-up plans and full test center rentals.
The SPX FLOW Innovation Centers are pointedly focused on assisting in developing the innovative products and processes for the dairy, food and beverage, chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
