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Jean-Michel LAMBOUR: Formerly R&D project manager, automotive paints
INTRODUCTION
You've changed business sector and are faced with different issues. You want to understand, improve and quantify influential factors.
Contrary to preconceived and subjective ideas, most observable phenomena can be compared to "common" behaviors that you may have already encountered, particularly in your previous design missions. Thanks to this practical experience, you'll be able, at first glance, to describe a phenomenon whose strictly scientific denomination may appear impenetrable to non-specialists. Secondly, you'll be able to find the mathematical equation that relates this behavior to the parameters on which it depends.
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