McKinsey's Green Campus Visit

We were off to an early start this morning. At 7.45am about 15 students gathered at the INSEAD lobby for a tour of McKinsey's Green Campus, a facility on the Jurong Islands where companies in the energy and continuous processing industries learn about making their operations more energy efficient. http://www.greencampus.mckinsey.com/

Having little exposure to the energy industry, I learned ab lot (of new terms and processes). A few ideas stuck with me:

Creating change in an industry-based organization requires a three-way approach.

1. Management process training

2. Technical training

3. Capabilities training (at all levels)

Learned about energy-usage in the following steps/stages

1. Furnace - energy generating

2. Fin Fan - cooling

3. Distiller - processing

4. Heat Exchanger 

Major energy saving methods:

1. Heat integration (designing ideal temperatures - hot and cold- at each stage to use min. energy for cooling and heating)

2. Heat coordiating? (can't remember the exact term) - channeling extra heat or energy from one process to another.

It was also fun to try out this new fashion item - factory overalls.