Decide about investments
Investment decision making about new materials and/or energy conversion networks is a cross-functional effort of R&D, engineering, procurement, and finance departments
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The cubeSphere software platform helps calculate consistent business cases and CO2 impacts, compare multiple alternatives, and collect decision relevant data.
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It further supports you identify relevant data, collect proof on numbers, and assess the quality of information at a specific decision point.
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In addition, we collect data, information and process models to facilitate business case setup and further improve the data base to reduce effort and costs.
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Based on our expertise and conceptual background, we can guide you through the process, support model setup and concept and process implementation across functions.
Make early stage decisions
Most of costs and environmental impact are determined at the beginning of research and development projects when uncertainty is highest:
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markets for new products may not even exist,
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competing technologies are developed in parallel
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data are "best guesses" rather than proven information
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you are far away from knowing how the industry size process is going to look like and to perform
Uncertain information should not prevent you from following a structured decision making approach that helps you understand
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if your your idea is beneficial
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which targets to realize
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what you know, and most importantly, what you don't know
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and how investments can be focused to cost efficiently resolve uncertainty
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In addition, covering the complete development process with one consistent model, framework, and decision basis helps you realize your ideas fast and successfully.
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We can support you setting up an R&D process fitting to the cubeSphere uncertainty resolution process.
Analyze process networks
New process technologies do often not only impact the process itself, but also the surrounding supply and disposal networks, and in some cases the innovation lies in setting up a completely new value chain.
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The cubeSphere framework allows for modeling and analyzing complete process networks from raw materials extraction through disposal of products into nature, including recycling. It therefore allows cradle-to-grave and CO2 scoping analyses, as well as assessments of value chains, with the possibility to analyze single process steps deeper - if required.
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We provide a growing number of processes models including relevant input data to significantly reduce effort for setting up complex models.
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We can further support you setting up the required infrastructure and for company internal Information and knowledge gathering processes.
Integrate energy and
materials production
Materials and energy should be considered together and not as distinct worlds. Production of materials requires energy, and vice-versa. Materials can therefore be used to store and release energy into grids, and electricity can be used as energy source for producing materials (Power-to-X).
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The cubeSphere allows modelling large scale energy and materials integration and thus in the efficient development of combined process models.
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Concept and software platform applicability are not only limited to chemical and energy supply networks. They can also be applied to biotechnological and other production process scenarios.
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