ifu Hamburg GmbH, member of iPoint Group, HTW Berlin and UKOM jointly supported SMEs in using the MFCA methodology to achieve higher material efficiency. Our consultants provided support in the analysis process and...
Tag - material flow cost accounting
Increasing material profitability with MFCA in low-loss production
ifu Hamburg, Member of iPoint Group, and Umwelttechnik BW (State Agency for Environmental Technology and Resource Efficiency in Baden-Wuerttemberg) advised different companies on material efficiency within the funding...
Exploring efficiency potentials in the recycling industry
Earlier this year, a team of consultants from ifu Hamburg, Member of iPoint Group, held an initial workshop at MinERALiX, a business specialized in the recycling of construction materials. The goal was to help the...
Remarkable MFCA results in a German foundry
The German family business C&C Bark Metalldruckguss und Formenbau GmbH produces magnesium die casts for various purposes. With the help of ifu Hamburg GmbH, Member of iPoint Group, they used material flow cost...
MFCA Hamburg – Resource Efficiency Flagships
How will we make Hamburg’s industry more efficient and sustainable? To answer this question, the “MFCA-Hamburg” project was launched as a cooperation between ifu Hamburg, the Hamburg Environmental...
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...
Material Flow Cost Accounting provides head start for SMEs
MFCA stands for Material Flow Cost Accounting and helps businesses to increase their material efficiency. Born in Germany in the 90s it is now a great success in Japan and through the ISO norm 14051 it becomes popular...
Material Flow Cost Accounting: Tips from a consultant
Hiroshi Tachikawa is the managing director at Propharm Japan. He helped numerous companies across Japan and Asia to get started with Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA) and hence to increase their material efficiency...
Materialflusskostenrechnung am größten Textilforschungszentrum Europas
Dr. Jürgen Seibold arbeitet im Zentrum für Management Research der Deutschen Institute für Textil- und Faserforschung Denkendorf. Für ihn liegt die Stärke der Materialflusskostenrechnung in der gesamtheitlichen...
Diese Unternehmen haben durch MFCA Ihre Materialeffizienz gesteigert
Aus internationaler Sicht hat die Materialflusskostenrechnung bisher die größte Verbreitung in Japan gefunden, wo mehr als 300 Unternehmen des produzierenden Bereichs dieses Instrument bereits erfolgreich einsetzen...