Pierre-Emmanuel Fayemi

IKOS Consulting · IKOS Lab.

Smart trains nowadays are equipped with sensors that generate an abundance of data during operation. Such data may, directly or indirectly, reflect the health state of the trains. Thus, it is of interest to analyze these data in a timely manner, preferably on-the-fly as they are being generated, to make maintenance operations more proactive and eff...

Design Theory and Innovation management theory are commonly used in many industrial sectors, especially in highly competitive areas with also the presence of a high level of substitution. Nevertheless, these theories can be useful as well as a support to decision making in slower paced sectors, as railways. In this article the case study of various...

This paper presents a semi-automated state of the art related to the concept of circular economy and focuses on technical problems identification methods based on syntactic dependency patterns, for ameliorating supervised state of the art and patent intelligence. The data and information used in this paper were collected from patents and scientific...

Biologically inspired design (BID) is an emerging field of research with increasing achievements in engineering for design and problem solving. Its economic, societal, and ecological impact is considered to be significant. However, the number of existing products and success stories is still limited when compared to the knowledge that is available...

The present research primarily focuses on building an effective rationalization of the knowledge which can be extracted from biological experts. To achieve such results, a structural framework, allowing knowledge integration from different fields at specific phases of the creative process is proposed. The formalized methodology along with its assoc...

In the last years the efforts spent for the enhancement of parsing engines led to several software more performant, in terms of both effectiveness in identification of syntax modules and speed of elaboration of the text, than the previous generation ones. Exploiting the benefits coming from such a new generation of software, nowadays the patent sea...

An Eco-design methodology based on two abridged Life Cycle Assessment (aLCA) tools and TRIZ Eco guidelines is presented. This method is one of the outputs of the European project REMake, which developed and tested new approaches for eco-innovation and optimization of energy and materials for 250 manufacturing SMEs in six countries. Unlike other Eco...

ITree, a step by step procedure for supporting eco-assessment and eco-design is presented. The assessment phase is carried out combining life cycle assessment, for calculating the environmental impacts, with an innovative technique, called “IFR index”, for selecting the main LCA criticalities. IFR index is inspired by Ideal Final Result tool from T...

Biomimetics applies principles and strategies abstracted from biological systems to engineering and technological design. With a huge potential for innovation, biomimetics could evolve into a key process in businesses. Yet challenges remain within the process of biomimetics, especially from the perspective of potential users. We work to clarify the...

Biomimetics, as the transfer of strategies from biology to technology, is an emerging research area and has led to significant concepts over the past decades. The development of such concepts is described by the process of biomimetics, encompassing several steps. In Practice, beneficiaries of the process face challenges. Therefore, to overcome chal...

La bio-inspiration applique des principes et des stratégies issus de systèmes biologiques afin de faciliter la conception technologique. Doté d’un fort potentiel pour l’Innovation, la biomimétique, son pendant méthodologique, est en passe d’évoluer vers un processus clé pour les entreprises. Un certain nombre de freins demeurent cependant à lever a...

The intended goal of the publication is to evaluate the relevancy of tools originating from TRIZ to integrate transitional representations in an eco-design process. It is expected that TRIZ tools could allow the project team to take into account all the identified constraints regardless of the discipline they are coming from. The methodology aims a...

This article aims to explore the use of TRIZ in the context of technology transfer. Based on the technology, which needs to be transferred, as well as the intended field of application, the developed methodology relies on the use of a Product DNA, a nine windows tool, a process regarding smart little people and a contradiction matrix. These tools c...

Bibliographic search is a common entry point to any scientific work. It aims at gathering enough information to support the incoming thoughts. It is usually an unstructured process relying on both information retrieval and serendipity. Considering the search as an unstructured process, it could easily become a time consuming never ending process. I...

The bio-inspired design process implies a multiplicity of actors. Engineers and biologists are usually among them. Mobilize cross-disciplinary and/or highly specialized biologists is a complex task and tools have been developed to address this specificity of the biomimetic approaches. However, the selection of biological model(s) of inspiration doe...

Nature has always been inspirational for humans. It is thus more than likely that she will continue to provide many of our tomorrow's innovations. Getting inspired from Nature teaches us to be satisfied with little while getting more. Regarding this potential, it is therefore crucial to clearly understand stakes, limits and mechanisms of bio-inspir...

The potential of bio-inspired design has been illustrated many times over human history. Nevertheless its process is complex, as biologists and engineers have to work together without necessarily sharing the same vision or language. Methods and tools have therefore been developed in order to support these kind of approaches. Following the outlined...

Industrial leaders, in order to stay competitive, take decisions on the basis of estimations of what the future socioeconomic environment will look like. Several approaches exist for the conduction of studies sought to make this estimation reliable. We distinguish the classical prospective approach, based on works of French philosopher Gaston Berge...

Although bio-inspiration is a well-known instrument for innovation, the problem-solving process that leads to the solution has not been fully investigated yet. The purpose of this article is to understand what bio-inspiration is, by defining its relative concepts and boundaries. After the outlining of a generic biomimetic process, a direct correspo...

L'article présente l'avancée de la recherche entamée dans le cadre des travaux de thèse. Après une analyse de la tendance de la bio-inspiration, les problèmes de sémantique liés au domaine sont abordés. Des exemples de réalisation biomimétiques sont ensuite analysés afin de comprendre ce qui définit une bonne solution biomimétique. A la suite de ce...