There is no doubt that there is complexity in the world.
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.
In this instance, we could decide in advance how we might react to a vaccine becoming available, and get it out to people quickly.. As the Factory in a Box project demonstrated, there are elements which are standardised across projects.A chip is not a module or a piece of equipment, it's a part of a chain.
Depending on the problem you're trying to address, you can set the level of the size of the Chip to the level that is appropriate to your analysis.A chip can, therefore, be a whole factory, a building, a production line, or a single machine within a production line.
These different levels will often result in a hierarchy of Chips, so that big Chips can later be broken into small Chips.They're used in different ways at different stages of a project, or in different ways by different users within a project..