Ver­tical Optim­iz­a­tion, LLC

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Our Pro­jects

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Our con­sult­ants have worked on a wide vari­ety of pro­jects. In every instance, we con­vert a seem­ing prob­lem into an oppor­tun­ity. That is what our cli­ents have come to expect of us. We list a few of our engage­ments below.

Turning Problems Into Opportunities - Vertical Optimization



•Product & pro­cess design and pro­cess devel­op­ment (through to com­mis­sion­ing) of a man­u­fac­tur­ing plant for product flour (Africa)



•Pack­aging & sup­ply chain design for con­sumer food product dis­tri­bu­tion (US)



•Organ­iz­a­tional re-​design and busi­ness pro­cess re-​engineering of a national R&D organ­iz­a­tion to enhance R&D pro­ductiv­ity (Canada)



•Func­tional [product] design of a home-​based ana­lyt­ical device for urin­ary tract infec­tion (UTI) test­ing (USA)



•Pro­cess design & enter­prise devel­op­ment study for recyc­ling of waste plastic for use in (purpose-​designed) tem­por­ary hous­ing for refugees and intern­ally dis­placed per­sons (Mex­ico)



•New mar­ket devel­op­ment study for com­mer­cial­iz­a­tion of a pat­en­ted (insect con­trol) tech­no­logy to serve the ‘base of the pyr­amid’ (US).



•Soft­ware design and algorithm devel­op­ment in sup­port of batch pro­cess mod­el­ing & sim­u­la­tion (US/​UK).



•Design & devel­op­ment of a [soft­ware] ‘work­bench’ for integ­rated pro­cess devel­op­ment and optim­iz­a­tion (US/​Canada/​UK).



•Enter­prise mod­el­ing and sim­u­la­tion to sup­port integ­rated decision mak­ing in com­plex research & man­u­fac­tur­ing pro­cesses (US)



•Design & devel­op­ment of an integ­rated plastics recyc­ling and pro­duc­tion plant (Africa)



•Design, devel­op­ment and com­mis­sion­ing of a water treat­ment & pack­aging plant (Africa)



•Devel­op­ment study for community-​based (and community-​owned, water & power) infra­struc­ture (Africa)



•Devel­op­ment study of fibers for next-​generation intim­ate appar­els (US/​Dominican Repub­lic)



•Tech­nical eval­u­ation of thin-​film tech­no­lo­gies for advanced sensor applic­a­tions (US/​UK)



•Sup­ply chain design and new mar­ket devel­op­ment for pro­cessed food dis­tri­bu­tion (US)



•Improve­ment of energy con­ser­va­tion (& asso­ci­ated cost reduc­tion) in a large R&D facil­ity (US)



•Reduc­tion of health­care and dis­ab­il­ity costs (US)



•Design and spe­cific­a­tion of link state map and ter­restrial net­work design for (voice and data) net­work in sup­port of a CLEC busi­ness devel­op­ment pro­ject (Africa/​US).



•Opin­ion sens­ing and mul­ti­me­dia con­tent devel­op­ment for local radio and tele­vi­sion broad­cast facil­ity, to serve domestic and inter­na­tional mar­kets (Africa/​US).



•Pro­gram devel­op­ment of a cooper­at­ive soci­ety to improve agri­cul­tural out­put amongst rural farm­ers (Africa)



•Design & devel­op­ment of a pro­to­type bio­mass gas­i­fic­a­tion plant to gen­er­ate energy from waste wood shav­ings in an indus­trial saw­mill (US/​Africa)



•Devel­op­ment plan for a (World-​Bank fun­ded) capacity-​building pro­gram tar­get­ing 51,000 rural farm­ers (US/​Africa).



•Scores of busi­ness plans, feas­ib­il­ity stud­ies, and cap­ital form­a­tion projects.

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