We live in a historical era that not only timely
acquisition of
information (or knowledge) is important but it is critical
that this information (or knowledge) be relevant, targeted,
reliable,
and adds value to your current efforts. Additionally, in an epoch of
"Big Data," when a simple
Google search provides hundreds or thousands of results, the
time, skills, and efforts required to filter them out to a highly-targeted and
useful information subset for your immediate interest is a daunting
and challenging
task. This is precisely what we at Advanced Technology
Consultants (ATC) have been doing for years; that is, providing high-quality,
timely, and targeted information (or knowledge). We find
an
increasing number of organizations that do not have
just the right human resources to do this
in an effective manner, or that would like to have a second opinion, or simply they are interested to outsource
it for efficiency purposes. At Advanced Technology Consultants, we
offer exactly such a highly-selective, just-in-time,
high-fidelity, and targeted information
on a number of areas listed in the "Service
Areas" section of the
ATC
website. A list of products and services are given below:
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In-house Professional
Trainings/Seminars on an increasing number of topics. Although a
partial list of seminars is given below, we
continuously develop new training seminars to serve our
clients' needs. In fact, almost every one of our
professional education/training seminars was originally
prepared for one of our clients. With their permissions,
these seminars/trainings were later made available to public. Contact
ATC
for a more economical
seminar pricing to be conducted at your company (i.e.,
in-house) by our consultants. For a comprehensive list of
topics, please click on the "Service
Areas."
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Effective Management of Research and Development
Teams and Organizations
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Management of Innovation in R&D Environment
(also see a sample of invited talk at the Society of
Petroleum Engineers titled "Management
of Innovation in R&D" ). For more on
benefits and intelligent use of outside talents,
skills, and ideas, click on "Current
Trends in Innovation by Expanding Beyond Organization's
Boundaries ".
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Understanding Combustion and Emission Technologies for Automotive
Industry
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Ignition Technologies and Advanced Diagnostics
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Strategies Towards Environmental and Fuel Economy
Improvements
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Combustion and Emission Technologies for
Automotive Engines
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Gasoline Direct Injection Engines
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Liquid Atomization, Sprays, and Fuel Injection
Technologies
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Diesel Engine Combustion and Emission Issues:
From Injector to Aftertreatment in Exhaust
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Homogeneously-Charged Compression Ignition (HCCI)
Engines
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Aftertreatment of Pollutants Emissions in the Exhaust
System
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Combustion and Emission Technologies in Gas Turbine
Engines
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Liquid Atomization, Sprays, and Fuel
Injection for Gas Turbine Engines
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Understanding Emission of Pollutants from Gas Turbine
Engines for Design, Research, Operation, and Technology
Development
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Systems Engineering
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Nanotechnology: Present Status and Future Outlook
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Electronic
(PDF) and hard copies of the
professional education/training seminar
materials. This can only be purchased through
ATC.
Most of our clients, or those individuals who attended such
seminars, have decided to purchase electronic (PDF) versions
of the presentations for
transportation convenience, speedy access anywhere in the
globe, and compatibility
with digital world. Please keep in mind that individual
copies are for individual use and have certain
copy right restrictions.
However, corporate copies are available with minimal
restrictions limited to the employees of the specific
corporation. Contact
ATC
for pricing and additional related information.
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Professionally-prepared
audio-video Powerpoint-type
presentations of all professional
education/training seminars are
available for purchase by the companies.
Each slide is presented with a clear
audio by our award-winning expert consultants,
thoroughly describing the
subject, while a digital pointer guides
the users to where the attention is
to be focused. Companies can store such
audio-video presentations on their
intranet to be used by their employees
at any convenient time and pace to them. There would be no
loss work or out-of-town travel expenses for attending such seminars. It is a cost effective way of approaching
professional training which, once
completed, also
positively contributes towards R&D, design, and
intelligent new product development
efforts.
Presentations are updated every year at
a fraction of the original cost.
Please contact
ATC
for more details and pricing.
To
view a short sample of the "audio-video Powerpoint-type presentation"
click on the word "IGNITION" in the image
located to the right to get a feel of how course
information is transferred (the copy sold is of high
resolution with high quality sound). High-speed internet
access is recommended.
To
view another short sample of the "audio-video Powerpoint-type presentation"
on "UNDERSTANDING COMBUSTION AND EMISSION OF POLLUTANTS FOR
ENGINEERS" go to the following link at Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNkyzOET2Q4 . High-speed internet
access is recommended.
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Systems Engineering in Design and
Project Management. At
ATC, we firmly believe in
systems engineering way of thinking towards addressing problems. If
you would like to use this approach towards your product
development and/or simply desire to infuse "systems thinking" into
your organization, we know how to do it. Systems engineering is
particularly employed in highly complex and large-scale projects
and has shown to highly increase likelihood of success
and minimize risks. We have trained corporate employees in systems
engineering and taught them to think in this way. We can do that
for your employees too.
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We offer Comprehensive Reports
and Presentations on a number of highly technical
subjects and advanced technologies,
contributing towards your R&D efforts. We have the
knowledge, experience, and expertise to phase in at any stage of
your research or product development efforts, taken from idea generation, literature/patent
search, to feasibility, to research, to design, to testing,
to verification/validation, to prototyping, to commercialization and to product launch. For example, almost all
of our professional training seminars were initially solicited by
companies which needed such information to raise the knowledge
level of their employees. There are other
trainings/seminars that
have remained as proprietary properties of the corporations we
worked with, and as such, cannot yet be offered to the public. As
an another example, a client of ours desired to enter into a line
of product in Gasoline Direct Injection (GDI) technology and
wanted
to know more about the technology itself and its roadmap,
to have technical information on the line of product, and to
know whether this
was a good timing or that
it made a good business sense. We at
ATC
formed a
multidisciplinary team from our network of experts and
offered a comprehensive information to address this
client's immediate needs. The company decided to proceed with
the product and in the process
ATC
also contributed towards the new product development, in terms
of streamlining the process as well as providing highly
technical and engineering information during the design process.
Click to the right image on the word FRP
to see a sample presentation of our work prepared for one of our
clients.
For a sample of our reports click on the following title: "Technologies
in Energy Storage for Electricity (ESE) (Smart Grid
Applications)"
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Technical and Engineering
Services. There are an increasing number of scientific
and engineering areas in which we at
ATC
can offer expert
opinion. For a growing list of
topics, please click on the "Service
Areas".
 For example, in one case we
received data acquired within a
company's advanced development department on a highly-complex test and there was
a need for a
second opinion on analysis and interpretation of the data to contribute towards the goals and objectives of the
project. In another case, an
ATC
consultant became a temporary member
of the client's team to work for an extended period of
time on an
R&D effort of interest. This addition of our expert, essentially filled a
recognized void within the company. In yet another case,
ATC
provided a thorough literature survey, including patent search,
for a client prior to its new product development effort.
Finally, another client desired to understand the role
nanotechnology played in the fuel technology for investment
purposes. We at
ATC
prepared a comprehensive and up-to-date presentation to provide
the gist of the matter and demonstrate the state of the knowledge
and technology for
this client's decision
making process.
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New Product Evaluation on its
Criticality Within the Technology Sector. If you are
thinking to create a new product, or if you are an investor or a
Venture Capitalist (VC), one of the things you must
consider before heavily investing is to understand how critical
this new product is (or will be) in the technology within which
the new product of interest resides. This is especially
important if your are operating within a rapidly and newly
evolving technology. For example, if you are thinking of a
new additive for the fuel to be used in automotive
industry, then the criticality of this additive to the
combustion and emission technologies employed in the
automotive sector must be thoroughly evaluated early before full
commitment is made towards research and development. At
ATC,
we have an increasing number of experts in our network
that can offer their services so that your decision making
process is more informed and intelligent, thereby
minimizing losses and risks.
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Comprehensive Evaluation of
Corporate R&D for Effectiveness and Competitiveness. If you
think your R&D division is not effective or efficient in
terms of the ROI (stemming from the R&D activities), we can
offer our services to, first and foremost, diagnose the problem
areas and, second, to formulate a course of action, and finally assist
you in its implementation. Our proprietary diagnostic questionnaire to
your employees can pinpoint trouble areas so that the
remedial solutions and corrective actions are highly targeted to
improve the identified weak points, while keeping the exiting
strengths and competitive advantage attributes intact.
For example, a client of ours suspected that it had a
motivation problem in its R&D department.
ATC
was then consulted and
after a couple of initial meetings with the VPs and C-level
executives, they agreed to utilize our diagnostic questionnaire. The
outcome has not only
verified executives' initial hunch but also identified the
specific processes, policies, managerial, leadership, and
behavioral components that contributed to the lowered
motivational energy within the R&D department of this company.
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Technology Roadmapping (TRM). At
ATC, we can either work with you, as a member of your team, or do it
entirely at
ATC
to prepare a detailed roadmap of the
technology within which your firm operates. This is an
integrated and important component of any product development,
technology assessment, R&D and corporate strategic planning, and technology transfer effort.
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Integrated R&D and Corporate
Strategic Planning. It is highly recommended that companies
along with its R&D department go through strategic planning
exercises once every two years or so, depending on the
size and evolutionary stages of the company. At
ATC
we engage in
both R&D and corporate strategic plannings. We have our own
methodical approach to ensure that not only a relevant and
effective strategy is crafted, but also implemented smoothly so
that employees act as well as "think" strategically. We can specifically
assist formulation of your R&D strategy and
ensure that it is
aligned with your corporate strategy.
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Feasibility and Economic Analysis.
Extensive research has shown the importance of feasibility and
economic analysis in innovation process and new product
development.
ATC
has assisted others to perform
intelligent feasibility and early economic analysis to
increase the likelihood of both technical and market
successes. We have seen an increasing number of
downstream failures with large financial losses that
have been
traced back to a poor feasibility and/or economic analysis.
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Technology
Transfer.
Knowledge and technology transfers are one of
our services and we at
ATC
can streamline/facilitate such transfers both within organizations and across the
national borders. We enter
into the technology transfer process at the knowledge,
persuasion, decision, implementation, and confirmation stages.
In the following please find areas in which we offer our
services:
_Technology
assessment using TRL levels, technology
roadmapping, and others (see the slide to the right),
_Drafting/editing agreements with industries (NDA, MTA, joint
research agreement, license
agreement, etc)
_Formulation and
implementation of comprehensive technology transfer plan and
strategy, and
_Technology scouting.
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Technical and Fundamental
Analysis of Financial Market. At
ATC
we have developed
expertise to analyze financial markets for investment and
intelligent future
forecasting purposes. A proprietary mathematical approach
has been developed during the past 15 years to
successfully analyze market dynamics, specifically for the equity
market. Please contact
ATC
for demonstration, testing, and purchasing.
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Expert Witness in Legal Matters.
ATC
consultants have provided reports and appeared
in court as expert witness in
legal matters pertaining to a number of technical areas.
This provided a tremendous assistance to attorneys in
understanding
the main issues (from a technical perspective) and in
terms of carving a defense strategy and tactics to maximize
their success likelihood in defending their clients. The range
of ATC
activities spans from a mere patent and technical analysis
(providing an easily-understandable synopsis) to
appearance in the depositions and courtrooms. Please
contact ATC
for more information. For a list of cases
ATC
offered assistances, please click on "Sample
Cases".
NOTE:
Contact Advanced Technology Consultants for consulting needs
and opportunities in this area.
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