Insights

What these systems need, and where they stop

Short technical notes for the people who would have to run a pilot.

Retail operations and store technology

What a QR store finder needs before it can work

The product finder is the easy part. Here are the catalogue, shelf-location and stock data a retailer needs before a QR store finder is worth piloting.

Metallurgy and process development

What a surrogate model can and can't learn from flotation tests

Historical flotation tests can help choose the next lab experiment, if the model is validated honestly. How to test that, and where the method stops.

Metallurgy and process development

How many flotation tests do you really need?

There is no universal number of flotation tests. How factors, noise and a stopping rule set the count, and how to use data you already have.

Metallurgy and process development

How a surrogate model picks the next flotation test

How our demo fits a Gaussian process to a synthetic test archive, checks it on later years, and picks the next test within grade and dose limits.

Retail operations and store technology

How a QR product finder works without an app

How a shopper scans a QR code and gets the aisle, bay and stock on their own phone with nothing to install, and what a retailer has to decide before trying one.