How green steel manufacturers achieve process optimization while electrifying and digitalizing operations

Credit to Author: Mo Ahmed| Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0000

The iron and steel industries are responsible for 9% of global CO2 emissions and are under significant pressure from governments, citizens and many customers to decarbonize their operations. For instance, leading automobile manufacturers demand that steel component suppliers provide them with green steel (steel manufactured…

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The Fab Four of Sustainability & Efficiency enhancement through Software in Process Automation

Credit to Author: Friedrich Richter| Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Sustainability has clearly become an integral part of every business agenda. And there was no shortage of challenges for companies in this field over the last twelve months. Worldwide, an increasing number of weather-related and geopolitical events adversely affected people, businesses, and our economy. It…

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Sustainable Business Operations Come Before Data Centers

Credit to Author: Mouna Essa-Egh| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Big names in the IT industry are setting benchmarks and creating high standards when it comes to establishing a sustainable value chain for their sustainable business operations. Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, and Oracle, to name a few, have all incorporated the need for data transparency as…

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Software Enables Decarbonization, Not Hardware

Credit to Author: Jessica Bethune| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:05:00 +0000

How can we make our operations more efficient? It’s a question I get asked a lot by industry leaders. As the process automation board member of German industrial association ZVEI, I’m able to speak with organizations directly – learn what’s needed to optimize their operations…

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Sustainability success – Why Contractors are key players in the value chain

Credit to Author: Natalie Block| Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2023 10:00:00 +0000

As climate change consistently dominates headlines, a growing call-to-action to decarbonize businesses and industries continues to gain momentum. Throughout the USA alone, many local, state, and federal laws, standards, and building code updates have been passed that support electrification and decarbonization in buildings, even in…

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How digitalization drives efficiency for today’s desalination plants

Credit to Author: Amin Abdel-Tawab| Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Climate change and water scarcity are among the top challenges the world is facing, and the water sector has a double challenge in the face of climate change. First, there’s the need to be more efficient in water extraction and distribution by reducing energy consumption…

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How digitalization and Industry 4.0 are helping keep Brazilian industrial operations profitable and productive

Credit to Author: Erik Maran| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 09:00:00 +0000

Industry is Brazil’s second-largest sector and represents almost a fifth of the overall GDP. But industrial operations in Brazil now face many challenges to increasing productivity and profitability while maintaining safety. In this post, I’ll discuss three critical threats industrial organizations in Brazil are currently…

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Rising energy costs: 4 ways to lessen their impact on food and beverage operations

Credit to Author: David Cooper| Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Households and businesses are paying more for energy than ever before, even as global governments spend billions to shield consumers from the energy crisis. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, US electricity bills in the third quarter of 2022 increased 15.8% over the…

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