THE

SUCCESS

OF SAVINGS

PROPOSALS

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An empty EDIS unit

Loaded raw bodywork ready

for the trip from the Body Shop

to the railway

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3 Loading of raw bodies onto

the train that will take them to

Osnabrück

4 Unloaded painted bodywork at

the Paint Shop in Mladá Boleslav

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NOT ONLY GREEN

ZEBRA BUT ALSO

UMWELTFORUM HELPS

TO IMPROVE THE

ENVIRONMENT AT ŠKODA

AUTO

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he current target, which is essential for

the strategy of ecological production at

ŠKODA AUTO, is to reduce the environmental impact for every car and every component by 55 percent by 2018 as compared with

2010. The basic monitored parameters that

every employee can improve include energy consumption, CO2 emissions, water consumption, reduction of produced waste and

emissions of volatile organic compounds

(VOC). The most visible progress can be

seen with the waste generated from the production of every car: an impressive improvement of 97.3 percent was achieved as compared with 2010.

From a long-term perspective, the regular working group meeting at Umweltforum

focuses on meeting the goals to improve

the environment. The meetings discuss the

topic of environmentally sound management of natural resources within the sustainable development strategy of GreenFuture, and the meetings are attended by all

ŠKODA AUTO departments and representatives of the KOVO Trade Unions. In addition to the measures proposed by the Innovation Team, another 880 measures with a

savings potential of 26.2 million EUR was recorded within this working group from 2013

to 2017. Thanks to the responsible approach

and efforts of the department representatives, a total of 451 measures was fully implemented, achieving savings of 9.7 million

EUR in total.

And which measures greatly contributed

to the savings last year? It was, for example, the installation of LED light fittings in

Česana, waste water saving programme in

the recreation facility Jetřichovice, air conditioning control, thermostatic heads replacement or employment of energy-saving tubes

in fluorescent lamps in the building of Offices and business trips.. RED

Invitation

You can submit your environmental

innovation proposals this year by using

our new eZEBRA 2.0 system.

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TRAINS AND EDIS

INSTEAD OF TRUCKS

THE NEW LOGISTICAL SOLUTION BRINGS ENVIRONMENTAL SAVINGS

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p to 300 FABIA bodies are painted on the plant’s premises, the route running beevery day in the Osnabrück plant for tween shop floors M14, M6 and M17 is lined

the factory in Mladá Boleslav. The by road signs that delineate the beginning

welded bodies make their daily journey from and the end of the traffic restriction zone.

Mladá Boleslav to the paint shop in Germa- There are three units in permanent circulany and then back for the final assembly. Since tion, one turn of EDIS takes 90 minutes. The

the transportation of 300 bodies on LKW units are continuously bringing raw bodies

trucks would require 50 trips

from the Body Shop to the

every day, ŠKODA Logistics

workplace set up for this purThey planned the

has adopted a green solupose at shop floor M6, from

departure of each train

tion that will replace the truck

which they take painted bodin detail so it doesn’t

transport with the combinaies to the Paint Shop. PFO-I –

have to wait needlessly

tion of train and ecological

Internal Logistics handles the

for the raw bodywork,

transportation in March. Such

loading, unloading and the

or the Paint Shop does

thorough bodywork inspeca solution offers several benenot wait for the already

fits. This will come as a relief

tion at this recently estabpainted bodies.

to the internal transport as the

lished workplace, including

trucks will no longer be enterthe internal transport.

ing the factory. The standard freight will be replaced by environmentally friendly trains, and By train to Osnabrück

the EDIS system will make unloading faster The train will be loaded under the shelter of

and easier. Now there will be eight trains of 26 shop floor M6, with three freight cars loadfreight cars travelling between Mladá Boleslav ed and replaced by new ones about every two

and Osnabrück, with each car carrying eight hours. Department PLL/1 – Container Developbodies. This means that a train unit will carry ment and Planning has even developed special

208 bodies at a time.

SUZx pallets that will be used for the transportation of welded or painted bodies. ŠKODA

EDIS units in the plant

AUTO will use 2,500 of them. Preparations for

The internal transport mentioned above will the train transport had their own particularities

be provided by three 25-metre EDIS units in Mladá Boleslav. Railway lines had to be conspecifically designed for this project; by em- nected at shop floor M6 as there was no railploying them, Logistics does not have to use way crossing. Then PLL-F – Planning of Vehifour LKW trucks. One EDIS can carry eight cle Production Logistics, in cooperation with

bodies. The deployment of these non-stand- PLT – ŠKOTRANS, planned the departure of

ard units also required to create a transport each train so it doesn’t have to wait for the raw

mode on a precisely defined and approved bodywork, or the Paint Shop does not wait for

route. Because the units cannot be overtaken the already painted bodies. RED

STANISLAV JINDRA

PLL-F – PLANNING

OF VEHICLE

PRODUCTION

LOGISTICS

The toughest nut to crack was

undoubtedly the transition from

LKW to trains. We had to combine the

train timetable with the unloading,

loading, LKW transportation and the

plant’s logistics of ŠKODA AUTO and

VW Osnabrück. We had to calculate in

detail on each body for each day during

the transition period. We had to

determine which one was going on the

LKW trucks and which one on the train

so that they all arrive onsite in time.

PETR TOMORI

PFO-I – INTERNAL

LOGISTICS MBO

The “Osnabrück project” posed a

new challenge for an additional use

of the already running environmental

project EDIS (Ecological Transport

Internal ŠKODA), which replaces the

standard LKW in internal transportation.

With the strong support from PL – Brand

Logistics, we are introducing the next

evolution of EDIS trailers into internal

traffic, with which we are able to

transport more bodies on one unit than

on conventional LKW trucks and without

producing CO2 emissions.

FEBRUARY 2018 ŠKODA MOBIL 7