Goldfire automates and supports innovation tasks using three core capabilities: Research, Collaboration, and Innovation Methods

• Define and understand problems and opportunities
• Analyze market and technology trends
• Access the information they need, real-time, in the context of the problem they are trying to solve
• Accelerate ideation and concept generation
• Capture and re-use knowledge, expertise and intellectual property
• Collaborate with subject matter experts

Goldfire drives sustainable innovation, helping manufacturing companies around the world make innovation a value-driving core competency.

Goldfire delivers innovation results:

• Faster time to market with more innovative and differentiated products
• Reduced product design and development costs
• Improved product quality and reliability
• Increased value for the company’s intellectual property
• Increased productivity for innovation workers across the organization
• Improved revenues and bottom line profitability

Companies using Goldfire drive sustainable innovation to boost top-line revenue and minimize costs by:

• conceiving of more and better product concepts (often generating concepts they would never otherwise conceived of)
• creating more competitively differentiated products
• solving technical problems faster
• more readily identifying and meeting new market opportunities.

• Build a risk analysis table
• Build an abstract model of a product or process system
• Conduct a technology survey
• Design and compare product or process systems
• Explore opportunity space
• Explore system modification patterns
• Find technology facts by leveraging on personal and corporate Knowledge Bases, technical literature including patents and proprietary scientific databases
• Generate product or process conceptual design
• Identify core competency
• Identify industry players and patent activity
• Parameterize a system to analyze the design of products or processes and identify areas for improvement
• Perform Function Modelling of component or process parameters and interaction
• Perform Root Cause analysis
• Perform technology analysis
• Perform value engineering analysis
• Resolve design contradiction leveraging on Inventive Principles
• Retrieve and research information using semantic search engine
• Validate rationale for opportunities

Brochure

Goldfire Data Sheet

What Clients & the Industry are Saying

Task Sheets

Quickly Understand a Technology Space

Technology Driven Evolution of a Product

Technology Landscaping

What Do I Know About 'X'?

Design a New System

Design a Hybrid System

Capture Design Intent

Diagnose a Product Failure

Fix a Product Defect

Improve a Product to Achieve a Specific Goal

Resolving a Contradiction or Trade-off

Finding a New Market for an Existing Technology

Patent Busting

Predictive Failure Analysis

Case Studies

Life Sciences: Immucor – Driving Automation & Accuracy in Blood Bank Technology   

Automotive: MAHLE – Accelerating the Future Engines of Innovation   

Consumer: MAGNET – Driving Innovation with Next Generation Leak-Proof Flush Valve

Energy & Environment: Shell – Innovating the Biofuel Market with Marine Algae   

Energy & Environment: Statoil – Pipelines of Innovation & Prosperity