Prototyping

Groundbreaking innovations are usually the result of countless tests with expensive prototypes. We do without these tests because the world inside our computers is at least as good as the physical one. In our DigiLab, we can use virtual prototyping to generate digital models of products, processes or even entire systems and work interactively with them to explore their functionality – exactly as you would do with a physical object in the real world, only faster, more accurately and more cost-effectively.

Even complex processes can be split into easily interpretable sub-processes and analyzed. All model functions can be simulated digitally without having to build physical prototypes. Powerful algorithms help us interpret numerical evaluations in order to produce valid model analyses right down to the molecular and atomic level. This saves the cost of building physical prototypes and also speeds up the simulation and analysis phase.

The final step involves using the virtual model to create a physical model of the particular application in order to optimize the balance between design requirements and technical feasibility in product tests under real-life conditions. Digital modelling and virtual prototyping require a great deal of specialist expertise. To simulate reality with mathematical models, the AI must first be fed with information. If the virtual result is to correspond to reality later on, this information must be accurate.

Our wealth of knowledge and experience in the digital modeling and virtual prototyping of flow cell technologies allow us to achieve maximum system benefits that ultimately lead to innovations like nanoFlowcell® and the bi-ION® electrolytes. Our n-AI and digital R&D facilities – the DigiLab – are central to our innovation management; as the core of the future QUANT-City innovation center, the DigiLab is set up to function as a competence center for an agile network of international flow cell research that brings together ideas and capabilities from a broad research and development network.