Digitalization and Industry 4.0 loom large on the horizon of manufacturing. For many companies, they represent the vision of a more sustainable future – and, according to Jan Hedemann from ifu Hamburg, Member of iPoint...
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Material Flow Cost Accounting for strategic business decisions
Material Flow Cost Accounting, or MFCA, is most widely known as an instrument used by manufacturing companies to improve material efficiency. The approach analyses the flows and inventories of materials in processes and...
Chocolate efficiently produced: Energy management at Ritter Sport
Ritter Sport, the well-known German producer of chocolate bars in the distinctive, square package, offers a wide range of confections, each wrapped in a different color. But who knew that behind the more than 100-year...
Sankey Skyscraping – Visualizing the huge energy demand in cement production
On a global scale, which product is produced the most in weight per year – steel, cement, plastic or paper? Would you have known the answer to this 1-million-euro question in a popular German TV-Show? ...
Smart Microorganisms at Work: Turning Waste into Bioplastic
How a waste product like pentose wood sugars is transformed into bioplastic and can be used as a new resource for plastic coatings and packaging. So called 1st generation biofuels are based on materials such as corn...
Life Cycle Impact Assessment – which are the LCIA indicator sets most widely used by practitioners?
Whenever someone starts his or her first LCA study, one of the questions to be answered is, which of the available LCIA methods should be used? There is no distinct answer to the “should” but according to a survey...
“Let’s stop re-inventing the wheel with everybody starting from the scratch when creating a material and energy flow model!”
Do you still rerecord, what you thought and expected when you started with your first flow model of a real world production system? I remember that there were so many questions on how to model best, on which degree of...
Eine nachhaltige Zukunft im Visier: Ressourceneffizienz steigern durch Digitalisierung
Digitalisierung und Industrie 4.0 stehen in der produzierenden Industrie hoch im Kurs. Für viele Unternehmen stehen diese beiden Begriffe zentral für die Vision einer nachhaltigeren Zukunft – und laut Jan Hedemann...
Materialflusskostenrechnung für strategische Entscheidungen
Die Materialflusskostenrechnung, kurz MFCA, ist bekannt als ein Ansatz, der von produzierenden Unternehmen zur Verbesserung der Materialeffizienz eingesetzt wird. Das Instrument macht Flüsse und Bestände von Materialien...
Quadratisch. Praktisch. Effizient. – Energiemanagement bei Ritter Sport
Ritter Sport, der bekannte deutsche Hersteller von Schokoriegeln in der „quadratisch, praktisch, guten“ Verpackung, bietet eine große Auswahl an verschiedenen Schokoladensorten. Doch wer hätte gedacht, dass sich in dem...