Product as a service.
With the right segregation, there are opportunities for waste management companies to work with manufacturers to find both technically and economically sound solutions to recycle back into manufacturing and/or into other supply chains.Although not without issues, there was a strong sense that further conversations between manufacturers and the waste management industry to create new productive circular economies would be fruitful.. Strategy co-development to identify supplies of new solvents to support growing technologies – and growth in shared geographies – could foster new, efficient, and sustainable solvent supply and recycling routes.. Techno-economic modelling is seen as a vital component in guiding short-, medium and longer-term decision making on solvents.. As the chemical market changes alongside fiscal policies, understanding how to stay cost-effective and adaptable will be important.
If this kind of analysis, or at least the insights from it, could be shared widely with the industry it could help accelerate interest and action, particularly in the generics ecosystem..Problem solving in the room.Prompted by a thought that many players in this arena are waiting for engineering for technical solutions, there was a conversation about the complexity of the problem..
This is a multimodal problem to solve; even though we had suppliers, manufacturers, laboratories, regulators, waste management, academia and design engineers in the room, we accepted not everybody was represented who needs to be.To move more quickly continued multi-agency conversations and collaborations are needed.. Collaborative problem solving on this scale requires the right skills.
Although some great engineers are coming out of universities, the curriculum has not adjusted quickly enough to emerging trends.
Students are well-versed in chemical engineering skills; however, equipping them to work across boundaries within organisations, and across organisations to help change happen quickly, seems like a challenge for academia and industry.As a result, we’ve seen that inefficient hook time becomes an increasing problem, leaking value from this powerful MMC process.
It’s important that we use construction technology to improve these types of issues.. Standards and innovation in the Australian construction industry.Ultimately, the construction industry needs to find a balance between prescription and innovation.
Lamont believes we need BIM 19650 in terms of language and connectivity to ensure we’re getting the consistency of outcome we require.However, he doesn’t think BIM on its own is going to save the day in terms of driving industry change.