Documenting and reporting
Effective reporting and thorough documentation are the backbone of impactful R&D. They ensure that knowledge gained from successes and failures is not lost but becomes a resource for others to learn and innovate.
By documenting your processes and findings, you build collaboration, transparency, and scalability, enabling others to replicate and adapt your methods to their contexts.
This practice not only amplifies the impact of your work but also drives continuous improvement across similar initiatives. It also helps you to see your work from a different angle, often suggesting improvements and creating new insights.
Documenting and reporting are valuable for:
- Tracking progress and learning from past work
- Ensuring reproducibility
- Improving troubleshooting and problem-solving
- Facilitating teamwork and knowledge sharing
- Supporting decision-making
- Attracting funding and external support
How the Flipflopi did it...
Case study: Flipflopi Material Research and Analysis (work in progress!)
In our extruded plastic lumber, there are always variances of the specifications depending on the plastic input.
Each plastic type can behave differently, and even within one plastic type, there can be diverse properties and process qualities.
This report is to document and analyse the process and outcomes of our extrusion production (especially for the more challenging plastic types and products), with the goal of learning and improving the settings and process to achieve consistent material of the best possible quality.
See the Flipflopi Material Research and Analysis report
Case study: Exploring the viability of recycling magunia (woven PP sacks) in small scale recycling
Learn from the research project undertaken by a partnership between the Flipflopi Project and students at Delft University.
Is it possible to recycle woven PP sacks?
