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VIRTUAL TWINS
MAKE YOUR OPERATIONS LEANER AND GREENER
Prashanth Mysore, Senior Director: Strategic Business Development at DELMIA, takes a look at ways of becoming more conscious of the impact your operations are having on the environment
ith more and more pressure being put on businesses to reduce their carbon emissions, it’s essential that those who work in sectors with high emission output do whatever they can to reduce their overall carbon footprint.
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The Virtual Twin Experience is a key differentiator in decarbonising heavy industry processes. For instance, in green steel manufacturing, Virtual Twins can help to establish fully integrated, highly automated factory with circularity, establishing green steel manufacturing processes, and reducing CO2 emissions by up to 95 percent compared to traditional steelmaking. Using Virtual Twins system modelling one can validate the replacement of coal with green hydrogen powered by fossil-free electricity.
Let’s take a closer look at the three key pillars that contribute to businesses becoming more eco-friendly: • Energy Efficiency: Implementing technologies and processes that lower energy consumption and reduce carbon footprint consistently over time. • Waste Reduction: Embracing a circular economy model where waste is minimised and recycled back into the production process. • Use of Sustainable Materials: Prioritising eco-friendly and recycled raw materials in production.
While the above pillars may sound obvious, it’s essential that manufacturers take steps to work toward addressing each issue to lower overall company emissions. By integrating these practices, manufacturers can ensure long-term business viability while concurrently contributing to environmental preservation. Energy efficiency: Power the industry
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Finding alternative ways to power your business operations is essential for manufacturers to work towards becoming more sustainable. If you are able to incorporate solar or wind energy into your power supply, you could not only save yourself a considerable sum on fossil fuel related costs, but your business will inevitably lower its carbon footprint.
Whilst the initial outlay for solar and wind power can be substantial, you will futureproof your business with renewable energy and make cost savings on fueling your manufacturing operation in the future. Create or upgrade your factory and production processes sustainably. As a result, your business will benefit from improved operations and profitability, which will be a huge selling point to any new clients you may be looking to on board. Waste reduction: Design and simulate production systems in the virtual world prior to physical build
One way to ensure your manufacturing firm is able to reduce waste is to simulate production systems in the virtual world, prior to committing to physical build. This takes all of the risk out of committing to, and investing in infrastructure that may not be fit for purpose. For example, DELMIA helps organisations achieve greener manufacturing by enabling the simulation of products and processes and optimising "first time right" plans through data- driven decision-making. In supply chain planning, DELMIA helps bring sustainability to the forefront by measuring the relevant key performance indicators, such as pollution & CO2 emissions, scrap, and raw material usage. By adopting green manufacturing, companies
can decrease carbon emissions and waste across production processes and the value network. In addition, improved materials use helps businesses lower costs and enhance their bottom line.
Use of sustainable materials: Reduce waste, recycle, and consider second-life products to achieve circular economy
Promoting a circular economy in your business is essential to meeting sustainability targets, as it enables your business to vastly reduce the amount of product waste created. A circular economy is based on the principles of reusing and regenerating materials or products, in order to continue production of products in a more sustainable and environmentally friendly way.
There are 4 key steps to a circular economy: 1. Sourcing – understanding material impact and external factors affecting a business. Being conscious about the raw materials you utilise and also considering the use of natural resources that aren’t renewable or recyclable. 2. Manufacture – look to incorporate eco- friendly design into your processes, whilst also maximising efficient manufacturing processes and distribution across your business. 3. Use – optimise your processes to ensure products are built to last and focus on providing your customers with a use, repair and reuse loop.
4. Recovery – offer collection on products at the end of their lifecycle and where possible, recycle the products.
Showcasing that you are embracing a circular economy to prospective clients can also help your business stand out in a crowded market.
DELMIA
www.3ds.com/products/delmia
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