Market Vision

Creating innovative businesses

Fractals Ventures has the vision to develop and integrate new technologies, knowledge, concepts and processes for the creation of innovative and scalable businesses.

The Iceberg of Manufature

Being a self-explanatory metaphor, the iceberg represents the set of topics that are visibly discussed in the market and another less known, but extremely relevant set for the transformation of manufacturing. We believe that the shop floor is the heart of modern manufacturing. We do not limit ourselves to offering isolated improvements; we create integrated industrial environments that drive sustainable and scalable results.

Operational Efficiency

A central pillar in the transformation of industrial business models. We use advanced technologies, such as AI, machine learning, and data analysis, integrated with engineering solutions, to optimize operations. These models aim to improve predictability, reduce waste, increase productivity, and ensure resilience in manufacturing environments.

Servitization

Fractals Ventures adopts servitization as a core strategy, especially in the industrial sector. Servitization transforms traditional products into services, offering continuous solutions that include performance, maintenance, warranty, parts, and other services throughout the product's life cycle, rather than just selling the product itself.

Industry 4.0

Fractals Ventures embraces the principles of Industry 4.0 to promote digital transformation in its clients' industrial operations. Industry 4.0 involves integrating technologies like IoT, robotics, big data, and artificial intelligence to create smart factories with automated and interconnected processes.

Advanced Services

'Advanced Services' or 'Life Cycle Solutions' are contracts that cover the entire life cycle of products, such as machinery and equipment. These services go beyond traditional maintenance, encompassing everything from design to asset decommissioning. They include installation, operation, prescriptive and prognostic maintenance, remote monitoring, retrofitting, upgrading, and disposal. Fractals Ventures develops projects and possesses the necessary technology to implement these solution models.

A.I Digital Twins

Digital Twins are virtual replicas of physical systems or processes used for real-time simulation, monitoring, and optimization in industrial environments. These digital twins receive real data from sensors, including information on machine status, environmental conditions, and process performance. Artificial intelligence (AI) is used to analyze this data, identify patterns, predict failures, and suggest process improvements.

A.I enabled Agents

These can be used in smart factories, where they monitor product quality in real-time, alert operators to deviations, track process performance, and assist in maintenance and repair operations. Additionally, chatbots are used in commercial areas, optimizing customer relations and creating synergies between sales, support, and after-sales services. Fractals Ventures offers various applications for these chatbots.

Distributed Manufacturing

This is a production model where manufacturing occurs close to the point of need, rather than centralizing production and distributing it afterward. This model is popular for reducing costs, speeding up the production cycle, offering flexibility and customization, and increasing supply chain resilience. It uses advanced technologies to remotely coordinate geographically dispersed production facilities. Fractals Ventures specializes in this model and its management through digital technologies.

New Business Models

Transform how companies create, deliver, and capture value. Innovation in manufacturing is not limited to new or improved products and services but involves reshaping the business fundamentals. This can include new commercialization methods, such as servitization, where companies move from being mere manufacturers to becoming providers of complete solutions, integrating services with products. Another innovation is the implementation of digital platforms that more efficiently connect different parts of the value chain.

Risk Management Based on Weak Signals

This approach identifies and analyzes subtle or emerging indicators that, although initially appearing insignificant, can anticipate high-impact future events. Weak signals reveal changes or trends not widely recognized but, when correctly interpreted, help prevent operational risks, such as workplace accidents, supply chain disruptions, and operational failures. This methodology is also useful in analyzing future business scenarios.

Operational Excellence 5.0

Operational Excellence 5.0 goes beyond new technologies and industrial process optimization, integrating four fundamental dimensions: people, strategy, customers, and the environment. This holistic approach creates synergies between these dimensions and the five elements of excellence: purpose and strategy, organizational culture, management and performance systems, process optimization, and digital technology. The goal is to establish a culture of continuous improvement, generating short-term results and adding sustainable value for the business and stakeholders in the medium and long term.

Automation

It's used to transform industrial processes and increase operational efficiency. This is achieved through process redesign and the application of advanced technologies, in both new projects and retrofits. Automation can be applied at different levels of complexity, from simple control and monitoring improvements to complex integrations that increase precision and consistency, reducing cycles, errors, and waste.

Strategic Asset Management

This is an advanced approach that combines various methodologies, such as Reliability-Centered Maintenance, Data Analytics, and Prescriptive and Prognostic Maintenance. It uses real-time data and knowledge graphs to create precise analyses, resulting in efficient maintenance that predicts failures, optimizes asset performance, maximizes equipment lifespan, reduces operating costs, and minimizes risks.