Sustainable production
Sustainability is now a priority for the graphics industries too, driven by growing consumer environmental awareness and increasingly “strict” regulations.
Indeed, environmental sustainability, in line with Industry 5.0 guidelines, means moving from merely reducing or mitigating the industry’s impact on environment to putting concrete efforts in place to create positive change.
Green technologies, such as low-impact printing and the use of recycled materials, are becoming market standards. At the same time, companies are looking for solutions to reduce energy consumption and minimize waste by focusing on processes that optimize resource use.
Once again, as with Industry 4.0, it is necessary to start from two unquestionable assumptions: that unreliable data drive any analysis off road, dangerously generating wrong results and information.
And that data coming from a few and not all production resources in the printshop(s), make the entire analysis totally untrustworthy.
There are certainly some protocols available, sort of (official) path to follow, such as spreadsheet that help calculate the footprint.
But do you really believe an analysis based on manually filled data can show the truth of your situation? We are not sure.
And here we come! This is where Logica MES is a real game changer.
In fact, the first feature of our GPC MES is that all production resources, regardless of their age or the fact that they are not JDF compliant, can be connected to DataProduction X MHI, which automatically and seamlessly collect production data, delivered automatically to your ERP. This data are also stored in your company server to provide many other analyses that your ERP allows.
DataProduction X can be easily equipped with DP Energy module, allowing the automatic monitoring, data storage and the production of reports dedicated to energy consumption.
What data can be collected?
Basically the entire plant’s energy consumption.
The amount of energy consumption of certain utilities; for example the vacuum pumps room, the waste removal system, the web offset cooling system – just to mention a few.
And of course we can also provide machine-by-machine energy consumption analysis.
In this way, our reports also cover that collected on individual part of a job order, according to the process it undergoes.
We have another important piece of news.
Logica has begun a journey of implementing Artificial Intelligence algorithms within its GPC MES.
With these new technologies, companies can automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks, allowing professionals to focus on more value-added activities.
Plus, the integration of these algorithms offers an additional level of optimization and sustainable interpretation.
And you will be surprised by our development in this sense applied to Industry 5.0 concepts and environmental sustainability where, by intervening in specific processes, A.I. makes them faster, saving time, energy and resources and is able to suggest timely and targeted improvements.
In parallel, they can represent retrofit solutions that allow older machinery to be updated, bringing it in line with current technologies and potential, thus reducing obsolescence and environmental impact.
Think what’s the value of such a certification! You will prove your customers with no question your efforts to generate a positive impact.
You will provide institutions with a new level of trust in the reports, officially testifying your applied strategies.
Just stop fill spreadsheet with false, manually or partially collected data.
Get ready for tomorrow, by facing in advance the points giving you a sure advantage in the future. Approach a new reality to measure your contribution to make your company living environmentally-friendly.
Ask us how, you will be surprised how easy it is to adopt Logica GPC MES solution.