Science and Technology Consultant

Trinium Inc. is a robotics company in Japan that signed a business agreement 5years ago with Neptune Plc. in Canada to provide remote controlled drilling and extraction technology for deep sea mining of minerals and hydrocarbon resources. In the previous years, Trinium equipment has been deployed worldwide, in both the Arctic and Atlantic regions as well as in the warmer parts of the Pacific. However, in the last 6 months of equipment production, Trinium engineers in the North American branch have been reporting to the headquarters in Japan on the lack of 2 rare metal elements, Scandium and Thulium, that are used in the alloy production of the outer cover of the robotic circuits of drilling spare parts. The Japan head office confirmed about a month ago that they are unable to procure the same rare metals required by the engineers. The headquarters in Japan thereafter also authorized their engineering division to go ahead experimenting with other metallurgical covers for the robotic spare part circuits. The chief engineer wrote back to the headquarters about 2 weeks ago that his team had produced another alloy using Titanium, but that this particular Titanium alloy when tested through laboratory simulations showed signs of withstanding pacific water temperatures, but cannot withstand icy Arctic and Atlantic temperatures. However, with more time, and with extension of the experimentation phase, the engineers are optimistic that they can develop another alloy that can be resistant to Arctic temperatures. In an urgent meeting convened between Trinium and Neptune two days ago, it was mutually agreed to continue the production with the new alloy for pacific extraction projects; but delay production for the Arctic exploration, and explore the feasibility of using recycled spare parts from older equipment while experimenting with other metallurgical compounds. Neptune’s CEO has consented to the costs increase of the experimental phase and the production of the new alloy to be patented by Trinium, but he has also declared openly, if Trinium cannot come up with a technologically feasible solution in 3 months, he will be partnering with another Australian based firm that can manufacture robotic spare parts of drilling machines with the same rare elements that Trinium lacks supply. Trinium CEO meanwhile has informed the chief engineer that he will try to partner with another Taiwan firm for the supply of the rare metals to be able to continue production as usual, even while the new experiments would take place – yet, the outcome at this point in time is not clear on the experiments as well as on the Japan-Taiwan industrial supply cooperation. Added to complexity are the Arctic Council’s regulatory standards of mining on safety from methane leaks from the seabed hydrocarbon deposits to be mined, and the protocol on prevention of crude oil spills from the drilling sites. Both of these regulations require effective drilling equipment that can endure deep water corrosion over years, and also prove effective in leak-proof seabed mining, as Trinium equipment has done so far.

If you’re asked to be Trinium’s Consultant on global development of their S & T, working with their engineering and scientific business development division, how would you argue out your recommendations to the following problems, in a report to be submitted to the CEO.

i. Problems in this technological system of mining robotics: is it the lack of rare earth materials Scandium and Thulium? Or is it the lack of engineering innovation in the past 5 years and the failure to improvise on the Sc-Th Alloy, while overly depending on routine production for just one end-user, Neptune Plc?

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