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Supply chain and materials strategy

Nobody owns the capabilities that most significantly drive capacity factor.

Published-literature synthesis on what limits availability for a machine operating in radiation, vacuum and remote conditions.

Client challenge

A developer building remote-maintenance capability needed to know which technical capabilities were the real bottleneck to market competitive capacity factors, and which of those already had a supplier.

What we did

Synthesized published reliability and maintenance-duration data across fission and fusion device types and programs, then mapped every capability by how widely it applies across machine designs against who currently sells products and services to address each capability.

Shape of the outcome

The widest-reaching capabilities are also the emptiest of suppliers. That separated what they had to build themselves from what they could reasonably expect a supplier to bring, before committing capital to either. Every claim traced to a published source with confidence stated per claim, so the client can confidently enter customer conversations with an understanding of their likely needs.

Public sources throughout. Outcomes shown as direction and ratio, not absolute figures.