Dolenjska cesta 83, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Date: September 24th (13:00-17:00)
Location: BEKO TECHNOLOGIES GmbH, Im Taubental 7, 41468 Neuss
Duration: 4h
Price: Free
Language: German
Ecodesign and the digital product passport are currently on everyone’s lips - but sustainability has long been more than just a regulatory obligation. Sustainability has become a decisive innovation and competitive factor. In mechanical and plant engineering in particular, this opens up new potential for more efficient processes and products and fulfills the customer’s desire for concrete data for sustainable product design.
In OECD and BRIC countries, around 86 percent of emissions could be avoided with state-of-the-art technologies from mechanical and plant engineering alone. The Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) is becoming a key instrument here - it makes the climate-relevant emissions of a product visible over its entire life cycle and creates the necessary database for strategic decisions.
But the PCF is just the start: sustainability has a holistic effect - ecologically, economically and socially. Those who systematically record and use sustainability data create concrete added value about their own products and processes, even in the short term, which enables targeted optimization and makes success measurable: Where does waste occur? How do we compare to the industry average or benchmark? What findings can be derived for purchasing, development or sales? This is precisely where impulses for innovation, efficiency and differentiation arise.
You will take these points with you - compact, practical and interactive:
- A concrete guide to recording the Product Category Rules (PCR).
- New ideas and approaches for your sustainability strategy
- Insights into the power of automated data collection and action planning
- Dos and don’ts for implementation from the interactive workshops
- Insights into the production of high-quality compressed air treatment solutions.
Bring your questions and take the opportunity to engage in an intensive exchange of ideas with colleagues and the speakers.
Target group: Specialists and managers from the fields of environmental management and management.
Wed. 24.09.25
1. Welcome and interactive round of introductions
Kevin Löpke, Consultant, ProductionNRW
2. Production tour
All
3. Presentation of PCF calculation and standardization projects in the VDMA
Florian Ruhnke, VDMA Environment and Sustainability Officer and Head of the VDMA PCF Expert Group
4. Sustainable into the future - focus on energy efficiency and CO2 reduction
Ruth Prinzmeier, Sustainability Manager, BEKO TECHNOLOGIES GmbH
5. Measuring means controlling - automated consumption measurements in the compressor room, with reduction plan included
Gorazd Bregar, founding Director, CALMS Air Inc.
6. Workshop
- Exchange of experience in calculating the participants’ PCF
- PCF from the customer’s perspective - what does the PCF do, what doesn’t it do and what needs to be considered in communication?
- Concrete insight and derivations of automated consumption measurements incl. action plan
