R&D as a service
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Every company eventually encounters that “do-or-die” moment when the product cycle reaches the maturity stage and it’s necessary to pursue innovations. Borys Pratsiuk, Ph.D., Head of R&D Engineering at Ciklum describes how companies across all sectors and industries can use Research and Development as a Service to update and improve their products or services.
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- 1. 1 R&D as a Service Success Through Innovations
- 2. 2 First project, C, embedded 2004 Engineer, R&D Lab, Tescom, South Korea 2006 2013 Assistant professor, Kiev Polytechnic Institute 2012 Ph.D Solidstate Electronic 2015 - ... Senior Android Team Lead Android Architect 2009 Android Developer Head of R&D Engineering 2007 @b_pratsiuk bopr@ciklum.com Who am I? Borys Pratsiuk, Ph.D.
- 3. 3 Agenda 3 R&D History R&D Driving Evolution Ciklum’s Point of View2м 1 4 Ciklum’s R&DaaS 5 Success Stories
- 5. 5 Henry Ford Nicola Tesla Thomas Edison R&D was about solving problems with physical, raw materials Edison, Tesla and Ford experimented on all kinds of strange materials like Rhino Skin, hemp, and copper They used to break things with a hammer just to see what would happen. They all created numerous prototypes before successfully proving their ideas with a breakthrough
- 8. 8 R&D Today – Retail Tesco is the leading grocer in the UK, accounting for 25% of all grocery sales offline and 43% of all grocery sales online
- 9. 9 R&D Today – Agriculture techcrunch.com Ag Tech Subsector Breakdown
- 10. 10 R&D Today – Agriculture – Connected, efficient farming techcrunch.com • Developing connected farming machinery that creates precise 3-D maps • Allows for early soil analysis and useful planning in seed planting patterns. • After planting, drone-driven soil analysis provides data for irrigation and nitrogen-level management.
- 11. 11 Self-driven cars 10 million self-driving cars will hit the road by 2020
- 12. 12 Worldwide R&D spending among the world’s 1000 largest corporate R&D spenders increased 0.04 % in 2016 to $680 billion. R&D spending is huge By 2018, Healthcare will pass Computing and Electronics to become the largest overall industry by R&D spending.
- 13. 13 R&D is Shifting • Most of the world’s major innovators are in the midst of the same transformational journey. • R&D is shifting toward developing digital products that are designed around Software & Services. • Products are developed with embedded sensors, cloud based software services, and the ability to connect to and leverage external data sources. • Software enabled products create better user experiences, are more adaptable, and continually deliver value faster
- 14. 14 Apple is continuously investing in R&D to enlarge its business and launch new products. Big players continuously invest in R&D
- 16. 16 • The process is the same - Experiment, iterate, fail fast and innovate! • But the possibilities are greater – data is now one of our raw materials! • And software’s ability to leverage the data drives new use cases, value and innovation! • Technology is becoming fundamental to all industries at exponential speed, R&D is the key to innovation and to developing new competitive advantages. Ciklum’s Point of View
- 18. 18 ii Proof of Concept Experience design workshop Research & Plan R&D as a Service. Overall Approach Solution development Supporting Monitor & Adjust Prioritized Improvement Roadmap/Plan Setup development processes, approaches, frameworks, tools and team Solution Maturity and full independency1-4 weeks 1-3 months 3 – N months
- 19. 19 Focus Areas Machine Learning • Multimodal data fusion, behavioral characteristics recognition • Prescriptive data analysis, event processing AR / VR Mobile application development with Tango technology IoT / Hardware design • Proof-of-Concept development • IoT platform integration • Concept - Physical prototype, including in- house 3D Printing • Specialty in medical devices & algorithms, including signal processing Research, Analysis & Ideation • Scientific articles reading • Brainstorming • Digital thinking sessions • Motion tracking • Depth perception • Area learning
- 20. 20 48 hours to design the IoT prototype with the Machine Learning capabilities for the #Garage48 hackathon Team: • Machine learning engineer • Mobile developer • Cloud developer • Embedded engineer • Solution architect • Scoofy, a smart cocktail mixer prototype • Speech recognition and natural language processing. • Speech recognition was implemented to mix your favorite cocktail by saying: “Scoofy, make my favorite drink!” The device makes your favorite drink based on your preference and the history. • Mobile app and cloud app helped connect the IoT machine to the smart server. Challenge Result Solution Design Thinking sessions How to turn an idea into the ready Proof-of-Concept in 48 h?
- 21. 21 IoT World 2016 Hackathon: 1st Place in California
- 22. 22 Success stories How RDaaS model worked for the companies
- 23. 23 How R&D as a Service worked for Aim: develop a wearable device to help reduce newborn mortality in developing countries. Functionality: the device monitors baby’s heart rate and blood oxygen saturation, alerts doctors and nurses on changes. Budget: $ 60K Duration: 3 months Result: 40% faster time to market, helped to rise $ 441K Architecture design Hardware design Firmware Signal processing Cloud service Web application QA / Testing Stages
- 25. 25 How was a PoC for the Agriculture Remote Positioning System developed? https://dzone.com/articles/from-farmers-to-programmers Aim: create a Proof of Concept that allows farmers to control various types of vehicles remotely Functionality: users can collect data from various sensors, send it to other boards and servers, and control any actuators using digital, analog and PWM outputs. Budget: $ 50 K Duration: 2 months Result: PoC proved the idea as feasible without the need for an army of programmers. The farmer could program machines in the field to work together.
- 26. 26 IoT visual programming language
- 27. 27 IoT visual programming language
- 28. 28 5 steps to arrive at an innovative solution to a problem Empathy Gather information through interviews, observations or first- hand experience. Keep an open mind, listen Define Narrow down the amount of obtained information and describe the specific problem you are trying to solve Ideate Work within a limited time frame, hold a blue-sky brainstorming session. Write down all ideas that come up to your mind. Prototype Use whatever materials are at hand, quickly throw together models of your top ideas Test Ask your end users to test the prototypes and gather their feedback. Then repeat steps 4 and 5 1 2 3 4 5
- 29. 29 R&D as a Service. Webinar Summary R&D spending is growing. Computing and Healthcare are the two leading industries in R&D investments, Software and Automotive industries ramp up the pace Data is now one of our raw materials Technology is becoming fundamental to all industries at exponential speed, R&D is the key to innovation and to developing new competitive advantages R&D as a Service: less risk, intensive collaboration, fresh eye on the processes, faster time to market in limited time frames Design thinking can be applied to any problem in any industry
- 30. 30 Fuel innovation in your company today! ciklum@ciklum.com