Here, attendees will explore various contemporary topics like embodied carbon solutions or integrated factory modelling.

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..

The data structures that we build around Chips allow data to be aggregated between different levels.. We can associate any type of data with a Chip.Conventional engineering data is perhaps the most obvious, but we also include data like staffing levels, containment requirements, power consumption, or even the level of design uncertainty.

This allows for visualisation of different issues within a project..

It's important that when we define chips, we don't leave gaps.We are often asked what ‘Chip’ stands for.

It doesn't stand for anything.It's based on the idea of a microchip within a computer.

The microchip is the bit that does the hard work.It's the intelligent bit and the bit that adds value.. Chips are enabling tools that do a lot of work and add a lot of value.