MOXOFF, Milan Polytechnic’s new spin-off, originated from the partnership between Warrant Group and MOX (the polytechnic’s mathematics department), which builds models and algorithms for the simulation, study, forecast, optimisation and monitoring of physical phenomena or industrial processes.
MOXOFF’s mission is to take the results delivered by the MOX laboratory and to optimise and adapt them to meet businesses’ needs, giving life to concrete, innovative projects for the competitive development of products and processes.
Everything around us, from nature (and therefore physical effects) to socioeconomic or industrial processes, forms a complex system of diverse elements wherein interactions between elements resulting in changes in the status of individual elements go on to cause, in a non-linear fashion, changes in the status of each of the other elements. These circumstances, and all the effects thereof, can be described by mathematical equations that form the mathematical model with which different scenarios can be simulated, to understand how interactions evolve as the data changes.
For businesses, this represents a strategic revolution. Using a mathematical model, in fact, innovation can be applied to a product or process by simply simulating what happens when a specific variant is introduced in a product’s material or in the steps of a process. It allows innovation to be applied without margins of error and with greater efficiency in terms of time and cost.
Whether you are assessing the water resistance of a racing swimsuit, optimising the shape of the drain pump in a washing machine, delivering a drug, or monitoring the performance of power distribution company, or even analysing financial tools or geological processes, anything can be described using a mathematical model and, with it, any changes can be introduced without risk.
The main feature of MOXOFF is its cross-disciplinary nature, which is why the spinoff is capable of conducting applied research and developing answers for the most disparate sectors. For example, what is the link between haemodynamics - a branch of cardiovascular medicine - and a company that makes packaging? Apparently nothing, but in actual fact, there are many similarities between the behaviour of the blood that pumps through the arteries and of a liquid that has to be "pumped" into a carton.
