Adrian La Porta discusses the limitations of current manufacturing practices, particularly batch chemistry, in meeting the modern demands for higher volumes, complex products, and faster production at lower costs, all while minimising environmental impact.

“You have to think of things like systems architecture, and you have to understand things like flow.These are guys who live, breathe, eat, drink and sleep manufacturing, who understand how to apply it to these spaces.

Right now in the construction business, you have lots of these contractors opening up fab shops, and they're not going to manufacturing consultants to figure out how to set up a fab shop.It’s like, wait.Why wouldn’t you do that?”.

Furthermore, this industrialised construction shift isn’t going to happen overnight.It’s taken the automotive industry years to get to the use of six-axis robots, but that was an evolution from very simple automation.

This process is about baby steps, not huge leaps to the end state.. Johnston says we need to “simplify the process, understand, get the foundations right.”.

This has to come before we can start to apply other things..Battery manufacturers such as CATL, BYD, LG Energy Solution, Panasonic, and others are expanding their portfolios of complex new gigafactories.

These facilities handle chemicals, metals, and intermediate products with stringent safety and environmental control requirements, often in direct partnership with carmakers like GM and Tesla..The costs and timescales associated with constructing such facilities are immense..

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