TEA Navigator

Can you answer these questions?

How much will it cost to install and operate a new production line or line extension?

At what production throughput will the project become financially viable?

How will changes in formulation, process conditions, or equipment affect profitability?

Which ingredients, unit operations, or utilities contribute most to manufacturing cost?

How long will your product spend in a dryer, cooling tunnel, reactor, or other unit operation?

How do process conditions influence temperature, moisture, yield, and product quality?

These are the types of questions engineers, scientists, and R&D teams face every day. Answering them often requires several software tools, complex spreadsheets, or extensive support from finance and engineering specialists.

Connect how a process works with how it pays off

Techno-Economic Analysis (TEA) combines engineering, process design, and economic evaluation to determine whether a technology, process, or product is technically feasible, financially viable, and commercially competitive.

TEA Navigator is an integrated decision-support platform for R&D and manufacturing that combines first-principles engineering models with techno-economic analysis, enabling teams to evaluate technical performance and economic impact together.

How TEA Navigator works in practice

From process concept to business decision

Build the process

Create a block flow diagram by selecting unit operations from the library and arranging them in the manufacturing sequence. Define material flow, yields, by-products, and waste streams.

Enter project data

Define ingredients, recipes, process conditions, equipment, labor, utilities, packaging, and financial assumptions required for the analysis.

TEA Navigator project data and properties

Evaluate technical and economic performance

TEA Navigator automatically calculates material balances, manufacturing costs, COGS, P&L, operating profit, and operating margin. Integrated engineering models simulate selected unit operations to predict process performance.

TEA Navigator economic performance analysis

Compare alternatives

Evaluate formulation changes, process conditions, equipment options, and production volumes using What-If analysis, sensitivity analysis, and equipment comparisons.

TEA Navigator scenario and alternative comparison

Make informed decisions

Identify cost drivers, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities. Generate reports, dashboards, and presentations to support R&D, engineering, manufacturing, management, and investor decisions.

TEA Navigator dashboards and decision support

Computer modeling — the “T” in TEA

TEA Navigator combines first-principles engineering models with economic analysis, so technical performance and financial impact can be evaluated together.

Traditional TEA estimates whether a process is economically attractive. TEA Navigator also helps explain why by modeling how temperature, moisture, geometry, material properties, and process conditions affect unit-operation performance.

Fluid-bed drying

Predict temperature and moisture profiles inside granules during drying. Evaluate the effects of air temperature, humidity, particle size, heat transfer, mass transfer, and drying time.

Tablet-core equilibration

Simulate heat and moisture redistribution inside a tablet after processing. Estimate equilibration time and evaluate how geometry, material properties, and boundary conditions affect the result.

Engineering model → Process performance → Economic analysis → Business decision

Additional models can support pharmaceutical, food, biotechnology, and chemical manufacturing. Because the models are connected to the same project, engineering decisions can be assessed together with throughput, yield, cost, profitability, and investment.