I’m a chemical engineer, and my “Mission statement” is to Bring Technical Team Economies of Scale to Small Chemical Companies.
I’m envisioning a subscription style service to handle metrics and non-capital projects.
Currently consulting companies go in and give them a list of things to do, and no one follows through, but the companies aren’t able to afford a me (process optimization and safety), a reliability engineer, a controls engineer, etc. full time.
Their person on site is usually spread thin, and focused on basic operations.
Some order of magnitude estimating gives around 150Billion of non-capital optimization EBIDTA potential across the 15000 highly hazardous manufacturing sites.
The current companies go straight for capital projects.
Anyway…this has been rolling around in my head for years.
I’ll second this.
Include refrigerator vents and the like too.