Geißler / Schloen 05.03.2015
A Text Mining Approach to Technology Monitoring
Stefan Geißler, TEMIS Deutschland GmbH Tim Schloen, Fraunhofer IAO
„Les nouvelles formes de l‘intelligence economique pour la recherche“
GFII, Paris, March 5 2015
© Fraunhofer
AGENDA
Introducing TEMIS & Fraunhofer IAO Motivation
Case studies
A bit of Technology
Conclusion
Introducing TEMIS, Fraunhofer IAO
TEMIS
• Founded 2000
• ~65 employees
• Software vendor „Text Analytics“
• HQ Paris, Offices in Heidelberg, London, Grenoble, Washington
• Flagship product: Luxid®
• References: BASF, Sanofi, Volkswagen, Novartis, Deloitte, Swiss Re, Thieme, Credit Agricole, Merck, French Government, and many others
Fraunhofer IAO
• Founded 1981
• ~500 employees
• ~70% of funding through contract research & dev
• Technology & Innovation
Management, Engineering Systems, Corporate Development, …
• HQ: Stuttgart
• References: (in Technology
Monitoring): Stihl, KPMG, FESTO, Kärcher, CAS Software
The Technology Monitoring solution „SmartScout“ from Fraunhofer IAO
uses the TEMIS software Luxid® as the basis for document analysis
Basic challenge „SmartScout“
How to make sure not to miss relevant technologies, markets, competition?
How to define a systematic, replicable aproach to identify new technologies and ideas for new markets?
SmartScout is a software based analysis instrument, allowing to quickly arrive at key conclusions and analyses
about technologies, markets and competitors
Technologies Markets Competition
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Overview „SmartScout“
• Software based Analysis of large document collections
− Early identification of technologies
− Early Identification of new markets
− Monitoring competitors
• Allows identifcation of new (yet unknown) markets and technologies
• Offers graphical analysis tools in order to quickly analyse relevant information
• Provides access to documents from a variety of sources:
− Special interest DBs (WTI, Elsevier, ThomsonReuters, u.a.)
− Patents
− Press, Technology portals
− Internet
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Detail analyses
Annotation Analysis
Training
Core process
Analysis of key terms
Content sources
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Result t1
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Result t2…x
Monitoring
Feedback loop
Project overview: Approach has been applied on…
Current welding and soldering technologies
Development in light weight construction OLED
Products for In-Situ water analytics Innovative cleaning technologies Welding Polymers
Smart-Grid Technologies Automated driving
IT Security
Innovative Concrete Materials High speed rotation jets
Methods in technology and innovation management
Topic monitoring:
Automotive (FutureCar-Network) New Materials
Industry 4.0
3D-printing (FhG-Analysis) Markets for
visible light communication (VLC) Polymer foils
Close range infra red spectroscopy
Markets for glas ceramics
Competition analysis
Case study: Identification of potential markets
Goal: Application areas for very fact actuators (<1ms)?
Result: List of ~50 potential markets
Collision protection systems Injury protection
Protecting against overcharging Lasershutter
Firing magnets in armed land vehicles
Highspeed separators for good/bad parts separation Kabuki systems
Security systems in e-mobility (shutting off batteries, … )
…
Analysis of approx. 10.000 Documents Effort: 3 days
Problem and goal of the analysis
White-Spot-Analysis as a tool to develop new methods!
Problem:
Decreasing efficiency of turbine blades because of worn our blades
Economic repair today possible only with low pressure blades
Repaired high pressure blades don‘t attain original performance
Goal: Develop an efficient methods for the repair of high pressure turbine blades
Result of the analysis phase:
13 Ideas (White Spots) for generative repair approaches were defined
Assessment of the identified ideas:
3 White Spots on Repair ofhigh pressure turbine blades by Selective Laser Melting/ Laser-Powder- weldingwere developed to market maturity, 1 Patent filed to protect the most promising approach
Case study: Repair of turbine blades
Result of the analysis
White-Spot- Analysis process
Project options
SmartScouting
TecScout
BasicTecScout
Prof• Topics:
- E-Mobility - IT-Security - Industrie 4.0
• Content
- WTI - Presse - Patente
Projects
• Individual topics
• Assessment by the client
• Content
- WTI/Elsevier/Thomson - Presse
- Patente - Google
• Individual topics
• Assessment by
Fraunhofer IAO
• Project report
• Individual topics
• Definition of and access to
dedicated dashboards
• Constantly
updated content
Project phases
Collecting &
organizing technical terms
Configuration
SmartScout Access Dashboards Monitoring
Relevant and specific terms of the project technology are collected and organizsed
(Workshop / Telephone)
- Select content auswählen and make it
accessible - Define Skill
Cartridge - Define
Annotation plan - Define Workflow
- Enter Users &
Groups - Define user
permissions and roles
- Send access information
- Select
technologies to be monitored - Save in
Dashboards - Definition of Dashboards - 2 Feedback-
loops
- Continuous import of new documents
Sample terminology structure
Entry: Search page
Document list
Research institutions: fuel cells
PR_TC_Grafikbaukasten_02032009.ppt
Relevant Statements:
Which vendor is working on which engine concept?
Connections
Temporal distribution: Lithium sulfor batteries
Technical terms
Newly founds technical terms
Research Institutions
Chinese Academy of Science
• Single data model (LUX)
• Single annotation resource type : Skill Cartridge®
• Easy Integration
• Low Overhead
• Easy Customization
• Easy Maintenance
• Easy Integration
REST APIREST API
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SC1 SC2SC2 SCnSCn
Annotation Plan
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