We need to be documenting, capturing, sharing and improving our processes, not just finishing a project with relief and moving to the next one.

We are now using chips as the basis of generative designs to allow us to automate the design process.In this context, generative design means using computers to assemble designs based on a set of rules, components and input parameters.

We generate very large numbers of options for a particular design requirement, and then get humans back in to look at those critically.. We can generate many more options using automation.Sometimes we find something which human expertise has not spotted.Generative design can create unexpected options with high value.. We are now working on making Chips available to very large numbers of users through a web interface, to use generative design for pharmaceutical plants.

We are also associating process simulation data with those Chips, so that we can look at throughput, and use throughput to define what Chips we need..The Chip as future enabler.

We are often asked what ‘Chip’ stands for.

It doesn't stand for anything.This sometimes takes us in unexpected and surprising directions.

For example, one longstanding client of ours is an industrial plastics manufacturer who is strongly focused on improving their sustainability.For this client, Bryden Wood have designed facilities with excellent environmental performance, introduced green landscaping throughout their site and undertaken studies into the feasibility of achieving Net Zero carbon for the site’s base load energy consumption..

However, none of these initiatives addresses the ‘elephant in the room’: the industrial plastics manufacturing process itself, which is heavily reliant on the carbon-intensive chemical production sector.. Chemical production is set to become ‘the single largest driver of global oil consumption by 2030’ according to a 2019 paper in the.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.