Climate change is a significant challenge for industry. Customers, partners, and governments are increasingly expecting manufacturers to improve resource efficiency and reduce environmental impact. As a result, sustainability is becoming an increasingly important factor in maintaining competitiveness and long-term business success.
(*) Source: The World Economic Forum
Automation enables greater resource-efficiency and business performance
In a world of corporate metrics and financial bottom line management, how can manufacturers add sustainability to the equation?
One answer is Smart Factories fueled by automation.
Automation can reduce the number of reworks and recalls that cost valuable material and energy resources. It can also improve ergonomics in the workplace making for a better and safer working environment for operators.
Improved levels of tolerance and traceability not only reduces the amount of needed materials, it also strengthens the ability to quickly react to production deviations. An advantage that reduces the amount of scrap in production. In addition, traceability enables more predictive maintenance further reducing waste and avoiding unplanned production downtime.
As such, Smart Factories enable you to improve resource-efficiency, and also make your production more profitable and efficient.
How can you move towards a lower-impact future – today?
One key to reducing the environmental impact of manufacturing is doing more with less. This can often be easier said than done. Thankfully, this is not a transformation you have to make on your own.
Smart Integrated Assembly is our concept for industrial manufacturers looking to transform and implement Smart Factories. We’ll help you build a comprehensive pathway for your transformation and provide the solutions that make it happen.
Together, we will build a roadmap for the Smart Factory that works best for you. We will implement fully integrated solutions that are, in turn, closely interconnected with your equipment and processes. We’ll build you a competitive edge measured in more flexible, efficient production with less material and energy waste.
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Smart Integrated Assembly.The roadmap to more resource-efficient manufacturing
Smart Integrated Assembly is our concept for industrial manufacturers looking to transform and implement Smart Factories. It encompasses our portfolio, structure and ecosystem of hardware, software and services offerings, delivering value throughout each stage of the maufacturing lifecycle.
It offers customers a competitive edge through more efficient, flexible, and adaptable manufacturing processes, reduced downtime, improved material and energy efficiency, and less waste.
Our holistic approach guides your business’s transformation into Smart Factories to achieve a variety of outcomes:
- Implementation of simulation and digital twin technologies
- Modularity design principles that enable retrofitting equipment to new customer products and modules
- Ensure that products can easily be de-assembled for repair or recycling
- Reduce energy consumption and risk for leakage by moving from pneumatic to electric actors
- Utilize recycled materials and energy-efficient software solutions
- Optimize products for their specific intended area of use
Sustainability at Atlas Copco
In the Atlas Copco Group we are committed to science-based targets. We act to increase productivity and with that resource efficiency, driving more sustainable and circular manufacturing processes. These considerations are an imperative part in the design and development of our products and solutions.
We believe that what gets measured gets done. Therefore we monitor our environmental performance across a number of indicators, supporting our ambition to constantly lower our environmental impact.
Together we can build a more productive, profitable, and resource-efficient future.