diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 83bf1e3..cc2138e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -144,6 +144,10 @@ The detail lives in dedicated documents: side (the Mueang Chi lease, the Northern Region Industrial Estate, and Payap University's offer of land next to a pharmaceutical facility under construction) and what has to be checked before any of them is chosen +- [Payap University partnership](docs/payap-partnership.md): joint student + programmes in audio engineering (mastering, lathe cutting), IT and + business built around the plant, what they change in the plan (cutting + room earlier, pre-release security, student access) and what to agree - [Project scale](docs/scale.md): rough numbers for everything on one page: output capacity, building area, land, electrical demand, solar and storage, steam and fuel, headcount, and money cross-references @@ -189,6 +193,7 @@ docs/ ├── crane-workshop-tours.md Overhead crane, workshop, visitor corridor ├── digital-factory.md Data platform, NixOS/Clan fleet, acquisition, app ├── facility-security.md Security, HVAC, fire and life safety, compliance +├── payap-partnership.md Joint student programmes with Payap University ├── plant-operation.html Animated plant overview (simulated SCADA) ├── process-flow.md Audio file to delivered record, with all checks ├── production-timeline.md Order turnaround, stage by stage diff --git a/docs/boi.md b/docs/boi.md index 2b2f489..e3f596a 100644 --- a/docs/boi.md +++ b/docs/boi.md @@ -109,6 +109,9 @@ project timeline, ahead of equipment contracts. - Confirm current NEC/Lamphun area add-ons - Engage a BOI-registered consultant to structure the application so the solar, automation, and R&D measures stack on the base promotion +- Check whether R&D contracted with Payap University and the joint student + programmes ([Payap partnership](payap-partnership.md)) count toward the + R&D merit or a skills-development measure - Keep any future label/content/retail arm in a separate entity: media and service activities carry different (and sometimes Thai-ownership) conditions, and mixing them muddies a clean manufacturing application diff --git a/docs/payap-partnership.md b/docs/payap-partnership.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6a3b231 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/payap-partnership.md @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +# Payap University Partnership + +Two strands came out of the October 2026 conversations with Payap +University: land it would lease to the project (see +[site candidates](site-candidates.md)), and close collaboration on **new +student programmes built around the plant**: audio engineering (mastering +and lathe cutting), IT, business administration and more. This page holds +the programme strand. Nothing is agreed yet; scope, form and money are +open. + +## Why it fits + +- **The hardest hires are the programme subjects.** Mastering and cutting + engineers are an open item in the + [supplier map](suppliers/equipment-suppliers.md), and the plant needs one + or two at maturity ([scale](scale.md)). A cutting and mastering programme + is a hiring pipeline for the plant, and for the region. +- **Payap brings what a factory does not have**: a College of Music, + IT, business administration and communication arts faculties, an + International College teaching in English, and a Faculty of Pharmacy + with analytical labs. +- **The plant brings what a university cannot**: a working cutting lathe, + real production data and a factory application with real users. + +## Programme areas against the plant + +| Area | What students work on | Where it lives in this repo | +|---|---|---| +| Mastering | Mastering for the physical limits of the groove, side length against format, technical QA, the approval workflow with the artist | [process flow](process-flow.md) stages 1 and 2, the audio checks on the [artist platform](artist-platform.md) | +| Lathe cutting | Test cuts and lacquers, groove microscopy, dead-wax scribing, pitch and depth automation (Sillitoe Space / Time Control or the Agnew route) | [vendor landscape](suppliers/vendor-landscape.md), part marking in [quality automation](quality-automation.md) | +| IT | The factory application (`cnx-factory`), data acquisition, traceability, the artist platform, operations on the NixOS fleet | [digital factory](digital-factory.md), [traceability](traceability.md), [artist platform](artist-platform.md) | +| Business administration | Costing and the price calculator, production planning and lead times, export sales and logistics, fan-funded campaigns, BOI compliance | [revenue model](finance/revenue-model.md), [production timeline](production-timeline.md), [BOI](boi.md) | +| To discuss | Music (recordings for the programme and the platform), communication arts (label and artist marketing, plant tours), science and pharmacy (the PVC material lab, galvanics chemistry) | [quality automation](quality-automation.md), [galvanics and stamper prep](equipment/galvanics.md) | + +## What it changes in the plan + +- **The cutting room moves up the agenda.** The [roadmap](roadmap.md) puts + mastering and cutting last (item 27), earlier only if title-services + demand shows up. A teaching programme is a second reason to bring it + forward, as a room that trains students and cuts customer lacquers. The + teacher comes before the students: an experienced cutting engineer, or + the lathe vendor's training, has to be in place first. Student test cuts + consume lacquer blanks and styli, a running cost to price into the + programme. +- **Pre-release security.** Labels ask how unreleased audio is protected. + Teaching uses own or licensed material (Poy Records, recordings from + Payap's College of Music); customer masters only under NDA and the room + access control in [facility security](facility-security.md). +- **Safety and access.** Students on the plant floor fall under the + [worker safety](worker-safety.md) programme; the galvanics clean room is + seen through the visitor corridor window, not entered + ([crane, workshop and tours](crane-workshop-tours.md)). IT students work + on a staging copy of the factory application and on exported data, never + with write access to production systems. +- **Location.** On Payap land the plant and the classroom share a campus; + at Mueang Chi they are ~35 km apart. The programme works better with the + Payap site but need not depend on it. +- **BOI.** R&D contracted with a Thai university and training cooperation + may count toward the R&D merit measure; an open item in [BOI](boi.md). + +## Form, to agree with Payap + +Start small and formal: a memorandum of understanding, internships and +work-integrated learning, and jointly taught short certificate courses in +mastering and lathe cutting. Degree tracks come later, because new degree +programmes go through the university's own curriculum approval and +national accreditation; Payap knows those lead times. + +To settle in writing: who teaches what; who owns equipment used for +teaching; lathe and room time for teaching against production; fees and +how they are shared; who owns student work that uses plant data; and +confidentiality. + +**Questions for the next meeting:** which faculties and programmes, on what +timeline; what Payap expects from CNX (instructors, equipment, internships, +funding); whether the programmes are tied to the land lease. diff --git a/docs/roadmap.md b/docs/roadmap.md index ae0a54c..21645c3 100644 --- a/docs/roadmap.md +++ b/docs/roadmap.md @@ -123,7 +123,8 @@ These three run in parallel and gate everything downstream: 25. Full metrology stack and the sampled audio QC station 26. Biomass boiler, fed by the by-then-mature coppice plus regional fuel 27. Mastering and cutting room (can move earlier if title-services demand - shows up in Phase 4) + shows up in Phase 4, or to host the joint audio engineering programme + with Payap University, see [Payap partnership](payap-partnership.md)) ## Standing principle diff --git a/docs/site-candidates.md b/docs/site-candidates.md index beffc3d..e4e767b 100644 --- a/docs/site-candidates.md +++ b/docs/site-candidates.md @@ -47,12 +47,13 @@ pharmaceutical facility on the offered land is to be confirmed. team, customers and the airport than Mueang Chi. The [visitor corridor](crane-workshop-tours.md), the [artist platform](artist-platform.md) and hiring all work better in town. -- **A partner, not only a landlord.** Payap has a College of Music, - communication arts and business faculties (artists, mastering and - cutting trainees, the platform's first users) and a Faculty of Pharmacy - with analytical labs that could back the PVC material lab - ([quality automation](quality-automation.md)). A formal university - collaboration is also the kind of R&D and skills cooperation the +- **A partner, not only a landlord.** Payap also wants to build new + student programmes with us in audio engineering (mastering, lathe + cutting), IT and business administration; that strand has its own page, + [Payap partnership](payap-partnership.md). Its Faculty of Pharmacy has + analytical labs that could back the PVC material lab + ([quality automation](quality-automation.md)), and a formal university + collaboration is the kind of R&D and skills cooperation the [BOI](boi.md) merit measures reward; confirm which measure applies. - **Production is already being built there.** If the pharmaceutical facility has factory permission, the land may already have a path diff --git a/docs/suppliers/equipment-suppliers.md b/docs/suppliers/equipment-suppliers.md index 7413cd8..283a4c9 100644 --- a/docs/suppliers/equipment-suppliers.md +++ b/docs/suppliers/equipment-suppliers.md @@ -194,3 +194,6 @@ site systems are compiled in Open: mastering/cutting engineer training, galvanics process expertise (hardest skill to hire), local contractors for building and utilities. +Payap University wants to build joint student programmes in audio +engineering (mastering, lathe cutting), IT and business with the plant, a +possible training pipeline ([Payap partnership](../payap-partnership.md)).