Laboratory Robotics as a Service - L-RaaS

实验室-机器人即服务(L-RAAS)将为公司提供令人信服的激励，使其将制造业务总部设在利物浦市地区(LCR)。L-RAAS将通过建立研发客户管道并提供与LCR下游制造供应链的联系来实现这一点。L-RAAS将通过使目标公司更容易在逐个项目的基础上获得LCR世界一流的材料创新工厂(MIF)的研发能力，而不是目前主导使用的大型计划，来建立对本地制造的需求。L-RAAS将使LCR能够瞄准全球范围内缺乏MIF创始合作伙伴联合利华规模的公司，但仍依赖于通过创新产品在竞争激烈的市场上的差异化，这些市场依赖于快速消费品(FCMG)和工业化学品等新材料配方。这将越来越多地涉及寻找石油化合物的低碳替代品。这一漏斗客户将增加对当地制造的需求，因为将生产和研发基地设在同一地区可以实现显著的流程协同效应和物流成本节约。随着远离全球化，这种驱动力只会越来越大。LCR先进制造集群已经准备好支持这种涌入，拥有本地供应链知识的制造技术中心(MTC)提供了指导。当DIF的机器人和数字专业知识增强了MIF的尖端能力时，MIF的尖端能力允许以一种世界一流的方式执行最先进的实验开发，被证明比引发全球“再生性危机”的传统方法快一个数量级，更强大。L-RAAS将需要一个完整的MIF/DIF能力映射，加上市场分析和细分，以突出相关的核心实验过程。这将使基于物联网的云服务能够实现一种全自动化的召回“设计和执行”服务，该服务将高端实验流程与精密机器人技术相结合，实现完全的可重复性和高速执行。尽管这些设施本身吸引了大量资金，但这一直是专门用于资产开发，而不是为潜在客户提供更低的进入门槛，通过行业/学术界合作伙伴关系访问，例如与联合利华建立的合作伙伴关系，这是最初公共投资的基础。如果没有发射台能够实现的这种商业概念证明，这一倡议将极不可能从市场吸引风险资本。如果获得资金，这一项目将直接为MIF/DIF和LCR带来大量就业机会、能力和全球声誉增长。

Laboratory-Robotics as a Service (L-RaaS) will provide a compelling incentive for companies to base their manufacturing operations in the Liverpool City Region (LCR). It will do this by building the pipeline of R&D customers and providing a link to downstream LCR manufacturing supply chains.L-RaaS will build demand for local manufacturing by make it easier for target companies to access the R&D capabilities of the LCR's world-beating Materials Innovation Factory (MIF) on a project-by-project basis rather than the large programmes that currently dominate usage.L-RaaS will enable MIF to target companies globally who lack the scale of the MIF founding partner Unilever, but nevertheless rely on differentiation through innovative products in the highly competitive markets reliant on novel material formulation such as Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FCMG) and industrial chemicals. Increasingly, this will involve finding low-carbon alternatives to oil-based compounds.This funnel of clients will increase demand for local manufacturing because of the significant process synergies and logistical cost savings from having a production and R&D based in the same region. With the move away from globalisation, this drive is only increasing. The LCR advanced manufacturing cluster is primed to support this influx, with guidance available from the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) who have intimate local supply chain knowledge.The cutting-edge capabilities of the MIF when enhanced by the DIF's robotic and digital specialisms allows a world-beating way to execute state-of-the-art experimental development, shown to be an order of magnitude faster and more robust than the traditional methods that have provoked a global "reproducibility crisis".L-RaaS will entail a full MIF/DIF capability mapping coupled to a market analysis and segmentation to highlight relevant core experimental processes. This will enable a IoT-enabled cloud-based service to enable a fully-automated call-off "design and execute" service integrating high-end experimental processes with precision robotics that enable full repeatability and high speed execution.Although the facilities themselves have attracted substantial funding, this has been exclusively for asset development rather than faciliating lower barriers to entry for potential clients, accessed through and by industry/academia partnerships such as the one in place with Unilever that underpinned the original public investment. Without this commercial proof of concept that the launchpad will enable, it is highly unlikely that this initiative will be able to attract risk capital from the marketplace.If funded, this project will directly enable significant jobs, capability and global reputational growth for the MIF/DIF and LCR.