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Feedback by smartphone<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
A paperless feedback system is another environmentally-friendly innovation. Employees can conveniently report hazards and wasted energy using their mobile phones. It is often enough to upload a photo with a smartphone to get the improvements rolling. The staff can use the same approach to describe and promote their own ideas on occupational safety, sustainability and energy efficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A whole range of measures are included in the sustainability initiative at the Bursa, Turkey, and Kecskem\u00e9t, Hungary, facilities, which are part of the Application Center Transmission & Driveline. They are cutting CO2 emissions by many tons annually as they reduce energy consumption. Compressed air lines are regularly inspected at each facility to identify and stop leaks so the compressors\u2019 use of electricity can be minimized. The Kecskem\u00e9t facility has switched the lighting throughout its warehouse to energy-saving LED technology and has installed motion and dusk sensors. That means the lights are only on when and where they are actually needed. Advanced LED lighting is also replacing neon tubes in Bursa\u2019s production areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Measuring consumption<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
These kinds of activities are part of the comprehensive sustainability and energy-efficiency initiatives that Freudenberg Sealing Technologies (FST) is undertaking. Since early 2022, Enablon software has made differentiated, standardized reporting and monitoring of energy and resource consumption possible at the company\u2019s sites. The measurement system ECON will soon help Bursa and Kecskem\u00e9t capture electricity, water and compressed air consumption usage data in much greater detail than has been the case until now. Targeted corrective action is only possible if you know exactly where the peak loads and high levels of consumption are occurring. \u201cWe are getting requests from customers who want to know the CO2 emissions per part. We have to have a competent answer for them,\u201d said Markus Hauck, who coordinates sustainability activities across Application Center Transmission & Driveline locations. Sustainability is becoming a competitive advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Expert support from outside the company can only help. The European sites of the Division Powertrain & Driveline are working with the energy services provider Trigenia on energy audits based on the European standard EN 16247. On the Group level, Freudenberg is charting the same course at a number of facilities with its \u201cBee \u2013 Be energy efficient\u201d initiative, part of the \u201cSustainability Drives Climate Action\u201d program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Where can energy consumption be cut, processes be optimized and more energy-efficient technologies be used? What is the cost-benefit relationship and what are the savings? How quickly would investments be amortized? Audits offer the important clues on these issues. The Powertrain & Driveline (P&D) Division\u2019s Italian sites have already had Trigenia audit them and provide advice, and Kecskem\u00e9t, Bursa and Langres (Lead Center Engine), another unit of the P&D Division, will follow suit this year.<\/p>\n