On-site vs off-site construction

Platforms enable us to get down to a much more granular level and simultaneously open the door for continual improvement and variability going forward with respect to supply chain choices, material choices and so on.. Maximising value with construction platforms.

Process Design in COVID-19 vaccine development and modelling.The importance of process engineering and Design to Value methodologies seem particularly relevant recently.

As we’ve waited for a successful vaccine to emerge, there have been over 200 in development, all at different stages with different probabilities of success.Throughout this reality, we’ve recognised that different technologies require different manufacturing techniques and logistics..Circumstances like the pandemic raise the question: how do we deal with this type of complexity?

The answer is, we use Modern Methods of Construction and we start to model it.We link in with the people who understand the development processes, and look at the physicality of the supply chains.

We look at what is likely to happen, the capacity different countries have to make different vaccines, and how such factors would affect the global supply.

Understanding the picture in this way allows us to make decisions at an early stage about what we might do, should certain circumstances arise.Chips are sets of interacting or interdependent components, plus all the data that goes into them.

They bring to life all data and stakeholder knowledge in one place, using a common language, so that everyone can understand every aspect.. Chips become the building blocks for our design.They also become the building blocks for conversations between the people dealing with business strategy and those people dealing with design and implementation of the pharmaceutical engineering project.. We start off with the analysis of the business problem and then generate design elements.

Chips will often appear as 3D models, but that's not what they are.They are the embodiment of a system.