Mr. Anthony BROWN
Senior Global Director, Off-Site Manufacturing (OSM), Exyte
Anthony Brown was appointed Global Senior Director at Exyte for the Global Business Unit Advanced Technology Facilities (ATF) in January 2023.
He joined Exyte in 2018 and has over 20 years of experience in modular solutions across a wide range of industries from semiconductor, oil and gas to mining and renewables sectors. Prior to his current assignment, he was head of global engineering for turnkey modular solutions in the oil and gas, and mining sectors. Extensive work experience in almost every continent for off-site manufactured solutions from both engineering and design through to construction and installation.
Anthony received a degree in civil engineering and business management, specializing in structural engineering from the University of Derby in the United Kingdom, before returning to his native Australia to run a modular construction company.
Presentation Title
Alternate investment and execution strategies for major projects through OSM.
Abstract
With the emergence of the chips act, specifically in the US and Europe, the level of investment in new fabs is unprecedented. The funding associated with the chips act and how it is being distributed to the market still remains largely unclear and inconsistent. Couple this with the relatively cyclic semiconductor market, the size and scale of the projects, there is a clear need to look at how we as an industry can better optimize the use of CAPEX based on ramp up needs of the facility.
Typically, what we see in the industry is an overestimation of expansion and production, as well as changes in manufacturing processes, often mean that initial investments in large CUBs end up partially redundant.
Off-Site Manufacturing (OSM), a modular approach, allows initial CAPEX to be a fraction of the cost of a fully built CUB. This will alleviate the initial investment in a very large CUB with associated cooling loads, compressors, dryers, generators, DUPs, electrical, and infrastructure. With this approach, and as the phased expansion of the facility takes places over a period of time, OSM modules for cooling, heating, DUPS, Emergency generation, and CDA can be added on an ‘as needed’ basis until full production capacity is achieved.