Manufacturing innovation

The UK Ventilator Challenge made sure everyone in the UK who needed a ventilator got one during the coronavirus pandemic. To achieve this, we coordinated the public and private sectors to overcome one of the toughest challenges of recent times.

We helped a nuclear operator to apply digital-twin concepts to model critical processes at its site. Digital twins enable the nuclear operator to use automation and AI to predict maintenance requirements and lower costs, prepare for the time when the site needs to purchase steam power and work towards reducing nearly 100,000 tons of CO2 generated each year.

Taking an agile approach, we provided our consortium partners with business case development, requirements gathering, systems engineering and roadmap development, all with the goal of plotting the fastest way to achieve a minimum viable product for the quantum sensor.

Our innovation strategy and design team worked with Rheia, LLC, to develop a flexible engineered HVAC air distribution system.

US-based Milliken & Company, a leading global producer of chemical additives, wants to help solve the environmental issues created by the improper management of plastics. As experts in helping organisations to become more sustainable, we’ve been working together to develop a strategy to mitigate the environmental impact of single-use plastic packaging.

Virgin Hyperloop One is reinventing transport with speeds two to three times faster than high-speed rail. We’re helping Virgin Hyperloop One make the new system a reality. Our systems engineering and enterprise architecture experts have been working on the plans for the complex software and traffic control systems that will be needed.

PA has created a 100 per cent plastic-free, sustainable and home compostable tea sheet, reducing the estimated 6.5 million kilograms of tea bag plastic disposed of each year in the UK

PA Consulting signs collaboration agreement with PulPac to bring Dry Molded Fiber solutions to life for global brands

Aisha Shakeel and Kieran Reals, life sciences experts at PA Consulting, discuss the needs and challenges that biotech organizations face during manufacturing process.

Jamie Stone, Dry Molded Fiber design lead and sustainability design expert at PA Consulting, discusses PA and PulPac partnership to develop a Blister Pack Collective as a helpful solution to problem plastics.