NIR Biomass Analysis Gone Wrong
I recently had to audit a production NIR spectroscopy system used for biomass analysis. On paper, it sounded impressive: “state of the art chemometrics,” “advanced multivariate calibration,” “industry ready models.”…
I recently had to audit a production NIR spectroscopy system used for biomass analysis. On paper, it sounded impressive: “state of the art chemometrics,” “advanced multivariate calibration,” “industry ready models.”…
The Inflection Point Three-four years ago, I stood in front of production equipment I’d designed using textbook equations and decades-old heuristics. The systems worked—they always had—but I couldn’t shake the…