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Payap also wants to work closely with the project on new student programmes: audio engineering (mastering, lathe cutting), IT, business administration and more. New docs/payap-partnership.md: why it fits (mastering/cutting engineers are the hardest hires; Payap has music, IT, business, communication arts, an English-language International College and pharmacy labs; the plant has a lathe, production data and a real factory application), programme areas mapped to the docs they draw on, and what it changes: a reason to bring the cutting room (roadmap item 27) forward, a cutting engineer before the students, lacquer and stylus cost of teaching, pre-release security for customer audio, student access and safety, IT work on staging only, the link to the Payap land, BOI R&D merit. Suggested form: MOU, internships, short certificate courses first, degree tracks later; what to settle in writing and questions for the next meeting. Links from README (bullet, layout), site-candidates, roadmap item 27, the supplier map's open training item and the BOI open items.
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# Payap University Partnership
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Two strands came out of the October 2026 conversations with Payap
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University: land it would lease to the project (see
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[site candidates](site-candidates.md)), and close collaboration on **new
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student programmes built around the plant**: audio engineering (mastering
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and lathe cutting), IT, business administration and more. This page holds
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the programme strand. Nothing is agreed yet; scope, form and money are
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open.
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## Why it fits
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- **The hardest hires are the programme subjects.** Mastering and cutting
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engineers are an open item in the
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[supplier map](suppliers/equipment-suppliers.md), and the plant needs one
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or two at maturity ([scale](scale.md)). A cutting and mastering programme
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is a hiring pipeline for the plant, and for the region.
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- **Payap brings what a factory does not have**: a College of Music,
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IT, business administration and communication arts faculties, an
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International College teaching in English, and a Faculty of Pharmacy
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with analytical labs.
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- **The plant brings what a university cannot**: a working cutting lathe,
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real production data and a factory application with real users.
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## Programme areas against the plant
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| Area | What students work on | Where it lives in this repo |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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## What it changes in the plan
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- **The cutting room moves up the agenda.** The [roadmap](roadmap.md) puts
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mastering and cutting last (item 27), earlier only if title-services
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demand shows up. A teaching programme is a second reason to bring it
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forward, as a room that trains students and cuts customer lacquers. The
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teacher comes before the students: an experienced cutting engineer, or
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the lathe vendor's training, has to be in place first. Student test cuts
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consume lacquer blanks and styli, a running cost to price into the
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programme.
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- **Pre-release security.** Labels ask how unreleased audio is protected.
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Teaching uses own or licensed material (Poy Records, recordings from
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Payap's College of Music); customer masters only under NDA and the room
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access control in [facility security](facility-security.md).
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- **Safety and access.** Students on the plant floor fall under the
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[worker safety](worker-safety.md) programme; the galvanics clean room is
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seen through the visitor corridor window, not entered
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([crane, workshop and tours](crane-workshop-tours.md)). IT students work
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on a staging copy of the factory application and on exported data, never
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with write access to production systems.
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- **Location.** On Payap land the plant and the classroom share a campus;
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at Mueang Chi they are ~35 km apart. The programme works better with the
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Payap site but need not depend on it.
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- **BOI.** R&D contracted with a Thai university and training cooperation
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may count toward the R&D merit measure; an open item in [BOI](boi.md).
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## Form, to agree with Payap
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Start small and formal: a memorandum of understanding, internships and
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work-integrated learning, and jointly taught short certificate courses in
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mastering and lathe cutting. Degree tracks come later, because new degree
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programmes go through the university's own curriculum approval and
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national accreditation; Payap knows those lead times.
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To settle in writing: who teaches what; who owns equipment used for
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teaching; lathe and room time for teaching against production; fees and
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how they are shared; who owns student work that uses plant data; and
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confidentiality.
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**Questions for the next meeting:** which faculties and programmes, on what
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timeline; what Payap expects from CNX (instructors, equipment, internships,
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funding); whether the programmes are tied to the land lease.
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