There is certainly no doubt: The “zero emissions” target can only be met by significantly reducing the use of resources, minimising unnecessary excesses, and utilising informative data in order to optimise processes – and this is precisely the opportunity offered by digitalisation.
Data is of fundamental importance when it comes to making processes more resource-friendly and achieving a significant increase in efficiency. Because the extensive collection and analysis of this data allows processes within a company to be controlled and optimised so as to markedly improve sustainability along the entire value creation chain. In this way, digitalisation can make an important contribution to reducing the use of resources, lowering carbon dioxide emissions, and improving workplace quality.
One potential first step in this context is the collection of precise master data, for instance with the MultiScan. This data lays the foundation for a wide range of optimisations along the entire value creation chain – from efficient storage to transport to the point of sale.
However, digitalisation can also contribute to easing employees’ mental load: Intelligent, digital workspaces such as the smartdesk support inexperienced staff members with the assembly of components and thus help to ensure that these employees learn new things every day and can go home at the end of the workday content in the knowledge that they have done everything right.
And there are many more tools and solutions listed on our platform that demonstrate the wealth of possibilities offered by digitalisation – with regard to supporting and relieving the stress of employees and using resources efficiently:
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The master data collected by the MultiScan enable the storage and packaging of products to be optimised, thus allowing existing warehouse infrastructure to be used as effectively as possible. This reduces material costs and saves you from having to use further resources for warehouse expansions.
The CartonScan allows you to deliver more packages while using fewer resources thanks to precise cargo space calculation data for shipping and transport. The device captures both the volume and the weight of the packages, allowing the number of units to be sent to be determined precisely and optimally loaded to save space so that more packages can be taken along.
The smartdesk provides employees with a digital assistant that supports them with their work – regardless of their technical knowledge and language skills and with the goal of working without errors. In turn, a high level of product quality minimises complaints and returns and thus also carbon dioxide emissions.
Precise operations and the correction of potential errors are often ensured by experts who cannot always be on-site. When this assistance is available remotely, however, it reduces carbon dioxide emissions, minimises downtime, and makes the entire process run more smoothly. This type of remote (expert) assistance can be provided with ivii global assist. This is not only beneficial for the environment and process speeds but is also very much in keeping with the spirit of social responsibility, as it allows employees to work in their familiar surroundings and stay home with their families. This enables you to increase employee satisfaction over the long term and retain skilled personnel at your company. Remote live support also extends the product lifecycle of your machinery, which is another positive aspect in terms of resource efficiency and investment security.
And the fact that working on a paperless basis is resource-friendly goes without saying: making work processes paper-free and modifying digital information directly and displaying it in real time – these are precisely the capabilities offered by the LNC IoT Display. Thanks to continuous updating, the most current information is always available on the digital label, thus eliminating the need for material for updated printouts or notices.
These product examples provide a clear answer to the question posed in the title, “Sustainability and digitalisation: a contradiction or an opportunity?” – most definitely an opportunity!
