Rheality - Listen to your process!

大量消费品的制造涉及材料通过管道的流动，通常是大量和高速的。在生产过程中监测材料的状态（流变性）对于确保产品质量和一致性至关重要，但目前难以在现场进行。在大多数情况下，每隔几个小时就采集一次样本，并在远程实验室进行测试。因此，失败的测试需要处理在检测到失败之前生产的材料，并且通常导致重新启动生产线的长时间延迟，从而导致显著的浪费和环境影响。**Rheality Ltd** 开发了一种系统，可以在管道中测量材料的状态，提供实时信息，从而减少浪费，提高生产效率，从而实现环保生产。它安装相对简单且便宜，但需要我们的专有软件，该软件使用机器学习和大数据来解释信号并确定流变状态和流动动力学。该技术还可以在泄漏或堵塞变得严重之前检测到它们，这对供水系统至关重要。凭借低成本的组件，简单的安装和高价值的软件，我们希望我们的系统成为广泛行业的标准监测工具。举一个与日常生活有关的流变学问题的例子，例如油漆或番茄酱。当使用油漆时，我们期望某些流动特性。当把刷子浸入油漆中时，我们希望它能粘在油漆上，而不是在提起油漆时滴下来。在粉刷墙壁时，我们希望油漆能够轻松均匀地粘在墙上。当有番茄酱，我们不寻找一个产品，是流鼻涕或将永远坐在瓶子里。所有这些产品可能看起来很简单，但是，它们的生产方式是复杂的。为了确保这些配方的行为符合我们的预期，流变学是一门研究物质流动和变形的科学。

The manufacture of a vast range of consumer products involve the flow of materials through pipelines, often in large volumes and at high speeds. Monitoring the state of the materials (rheology) during manufacture is critical to ensure product quality and consistency, but is currently difficult to perform in situ. In most cases, samples are taken every few hours and tested in a remote laboratory. Thus, a failed test requires disposal of material produced prior to the detected failure, and often leads to long delays in re-starting the manufacturing line, resulting in significant waste and environmental impact. **Rheality Ltd** have developed a system that can measure the state of materials whilst still in the pipeline, providing real-time information that should lead to reduced wastage and more efficient, and hence environmentally friendly, manufacturing. It is relatively simple and inexpensive to install but requires our proprietary software that uses machine learning and Big Data to interpret the signals and determine the rheological state, flow dynamics. The technology can also detect developing leaks or blockages before they become critical, which is critical for water supply systems. With low-cost components, simple installation and high value software, we expect our system to become the standard monitoring tool across a wide range of industries.To give an example of rheological issues relating to everyday life are for example paint or ketchup. When using paint we expect certain flow properties. When dunking the brush into the paint we expect it to stick to it and not to drip when lifting. When painting the wall we expect the paint to stick easily and evenly to the wall. When having ketchup we do not look for a product that is runny or will sit forever in the bottle. All these products may look simple, however, are sophisticated in the way how they are produced. And to ensure that these formulations behave the way we expect them to is subject to the science of **rheology - the study of flow and deformation of matter.**