Research and Development

INNOVATIVE ACTIVITIES

By engaging in innovation activities, Brent Adler not only provides systems but also creates technologies and solutions together with customers that prompt them to change their perspectives and approaches. The innovation process consists of three concentric layers as show in the figure below. The outermost layer, consisting of information from the field and signs of change obtained by scanning the “external environment,” such as markets and customers, is reflected in “standardization, intellectual property and open innovation,” which constitute the second layer that supports “innovation activities,” the innermost layer. In innovation activities, we generated ideas, refine the technologies to realize the ideas through R&D, and incubate them. A cycle of these three stages is executed repeatedly to achieve commercialization.

Engineers are inspecting the plumbing and water valves inside an industrial facility.
Chemical complex, pipes and tanks.

Research and Development

R&D activities at Brent Adler are classified into three types: Firstly, product development and applied research activities and joint initiatives with close suppliers and partners which are geared to meeting customer needs and target a relatively foreseeable future. Secondly innovation activities are conducted from a longer-term perspective, involve greater uncertainty, and are directed toward the generation of new business opportunities. Whereas business headquarter (TASMAHAM) is mainly responsible for the former, the latter is primarily the task of the Innovation Centre.