Sustainability
Measured in the same run as the money.
Energy, emissions, water and material per good part, from the same run as the cost. So a green measure's price and a saving's footprint are both on the table before anyone signs.
Sustainability figures usually live in other tools, one per site and year. Here the same model brings the footprint with the cost.Sustainability figures usually live apart from operational ones: other tools, other assumptions, other people, and one figure per site per year, far too coarse to change a decision. The operational model that could answer properly already exists; it was just never asked. Here it is the same model, and the footprint arrives with the cost.
What it counts
Where every kilogram comes from
Each declared rate is booked where it happens and every part gets its share, so nothing counts twice. A missing rate reads n/a, never zero.You declare what each machine draws and emits, what its materials weigh and carry in carbon, how far they travel in and how much water a part takes. The run books each where it happens and hands every part its share, so the products add up to the machines' totals and nothing is counted twice. What a machine draws while it waits stays on the machine, and a rate nobody declared reads n/a, never zero.
Scope 1, 2 and 3 in one accounting
All three scopes sit in one model, so moving emissions onto a supplier's books shows up as a shift, not a saving.Direct emissions on site, the electricity bought with the grid's CO₂ behind each hour, and the carbon embodied in what you buy in, with how far it travelled. Because all three sit in one model, a change that only moves emissions from your books onto a supplier's shows up as exactly that, not as a saving.
- Scope 2 from the grid's CO₂ hour by hour; what your own roof sends out is never counted as avoided
- Scope 3 from each bill of materials and its inbound freight, part by part
What it decides
The greenest measure was not a green one
Planned maintenance on a press that keeps breaking down beats the obvious green measures per euro: more good parts ship, each with less carbon.Five ways to spend on a line's environmental performance, priced and scored. The obviously green ones, heat recovery and switching idle machines off, buy little per euro. The most per euro comes from planned maintenance on a press that keeps breaking down: while it stands, parts already made, their material's carbon already booked, pile up in front of it instead of shipping, and the machine behind it waits, still drawing power. Short planned stops in place of long breakdowns, and the same work ships more good parts, each carrying less carbon.
The same question, as a use caseWeigh sustainability more, and the answer holds
Options another beats on two sections at once are set aside, no weights needed. Weigh sustainability up to tenfold and the leader still holds.How much sustainability should weigh against cost is an opinion, not a property of the line. So first set aside the options another one beats on both of two sections at once. That needs no weights. Then weigh sustainability from one to ten times the rest: the places below the top change, the leader does not. An answer that survives the argument about weights is one a board can sign.
Goals that making less cannot win
Making less is a smaller factory, not an improvement. So the emissions goal counts per good part shipped and keeps output near today's.The easy way to cut emissions is to make less. That is not an improvement but a smaller factory. So the emissions goal counts per good part shipped and keeps output near today's, and a run that scored better by making fewer good parts is called out by name.
All nineteen goals, on PlanningWhat it can claim
A passport that never overstates
Nearly everything inside the factory is measured; the rest is declared and says so. A field nobody filled reads “not declared”, never zero.Each product gets a passport across its life cycle. Inside the factory, nearly everything in it is measured by the run; before the door and after the product leaves, a model of a line cannot see, so those figures are declared, and they say so. A figure worked out from an assembly's parts is marked as such, and a field nobody declared reads “not declared”, never zero.
- Recycled share, recyclability, regulated substances (REACH/RoHS), lifespan and disassembly time, declared where they must be
- Upstream carbon measured from each bill of materials and its inbound freight
For whoever reports it
A PDF report for the sustainability team, per good part and in total. The run can also write its results to your own database.A report written for the sustainability team: energy and emissions per good part as well as in total, water, and what the products are declared to be. It comes in its readers' language, printed to PDF. And the run can write its results into your own database, SQLite or PostgreSQL, so the figures reach the systems your reporting already uses.
The same model, next
The same run, read for cost, for energy, or for tomorrow's plan.
Simulation
Build a working model of your operation and run it as the real thing.
Planning
Strategy, investment cases and letting the software search for the best configuration.
Operations
Shifts, rosters, breaks and calendars, and the daily decisions they drive.
Analysis
Product passport, weighing the options, proposed actions and reports both audiences can read.
Energy
Every hour priced on its own, the grid's CO₂ by the hour, and your own solar and wind.
Where are your two projects disagreeing?
If your efficiency programme and your decarbonisation programme have reached conclusions that cannot both be true, that is a very good place for us to start.
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