4. Application of IPPR to the Reengineering Problems of Class 1

The application of IPPR to a reengineering problem belonging to class 1, i.e. organizing a new process to overcome market boundaries, is here presented. The case study concerns the manufacturing of pellet that is a bio-fuel obtained through the processing of the wood coming from the sustainable exploitation of forests. Due to several under capacities which afflict the value chain, the present industrial process is not capable to provide a convenient output starting from the available resources. This drawback has resulted in the impossibility to follow the dynamics of the market demand of such bio-fuel, which is grown dramatically during the last years. In such a context, IPPR has led to the identification of meaningful directions of evolution aiming at making the process more efficient and consequently boosting its potentialities in satisfying the market demand. Eventually, a countercheck has been performed in order to verify the reliability of the provided outcomes. The feedbacks have confirmed the coherence among the outputs of IPPR and those available in the acknowledged literature.