Sustainability Leaders Collaborative established in Dane County

Joseph Mulama rummages through a pile of used printer cartridges stored in a corner of his Smart Tech Cybercafé, on Tom Mboya Street in Nairobi, wondering how to get rid of them. The dusty and bulky cartridges that Mulama has accumulated over the years have now become unsightly trash, taking up valuable space, gathering dust and even housing pests. His printers cannot use refilled cartridges, so he has to buy new ones to replace those that are used up. 

Production as a Service (PaaS) provides an opportunity for companies to innovate production without large amounts of capital, allowing the company’s capital to instead be directed where the ROI has the most dramatic impact. In the cannabis industry, that can include an array of investments from product development, additional licenses, and store fronts.  Production as a Service (or PaaS) business structures have been growing in popularity over the past decade and were accelerated even further by the COVID-19 pandemic. PaaS strategies provide businesses, especially those in cannabis manufacturing who need pre-roll manufacturing and pre-roll filling, to have access to industry 4.0 automation and data exchange technologies that revolutionize productivity without major investment.