SOFTWAREENABLED
SAVINGS
REDUCING ENERGY
CONSUMPTION IN TOOL
PRODUCTION
T
he employees and management
from the PKA – Axle Production
department are monitoring energy efficiency management and thereby reducing energy consumption per production unit every year. To have a systematic
tool for this purpose, they have started
using an automatic evaluation software
to assess the operating costs in energy management visualised in Power
BI. “This software support was prepared for us by colleagues from the PSU
– Ecology and Occupational Protection and PKT – Technical Service departments, in cooperation with the
supplier. The system is continuously
comparing energy consumption from
the past with the monitored comparable period, depending on production and outdoor temperatures. Based
on these analyses, we then look at differences in detail to eliminate energy
wasting processes”, says Tomáš Dušek, who heads the department. One
of the specific “corrective” measures involved replacing 122 skylights. In addition to improving the lighting at production premises, this also reduced heat
leakage by about 60 percent, which ultimately reduced the heating costs in
our plan by 1,484 MWh per year.
This year, Axle Production will focus on saving compressed air. Backed
by the PSU department, it has already carried out a separate compressed
air consumption measurement in Hall
M1 – Axle Assembly. Thanks to local
measurements, they were able to detect up to 124 leakage sites. They calculated that the annual decrease
amounted to CZK 150,000 and immediately started to eliminate loss sources. “We would like to continue this
way in the upcoming period, when we
will focus on the electricity consumption, heat or water”, adds Dušek. RED
RULES IN HARMONY
WITH NATURE
COMPANY’S ECOLOGICAL BEHAVIOUR MONITORED BY THE ECMS SYSTEM
W
hen we first reported
about the Together4Integrity (T4I) program,
which is a VW Group initiative, we pointed out that this program would be
implemented by all Group companies,
including ŠKODA AUTO, in their internal regulations. T4I covers areas such
as compliance, integrity, risk management, culture and human resources,
legal affairs, corporate strategy, and
environmental protection. It is unlikely that anybody could have imagined how, for example, the principles of
compliance would affect environmental protection. But it is quite simple.
Environmental management
methods
The environmental management system (EMS), which is already running
and monitors environmental impact,
compliance with specifically set requirements and objectives in the field of
environmental protection, meets the
goals of the Group’s efforts in the area
of compliance. Compliance is gradually
becoming an integral part of our company’s strategy and culture across all
areas, including environmental protection. As a result, this aspect was added
to the original EMS, which was subsequently renamed the environmental management compliance system
(ECMS). It is based on already existing
EMS activities and systems. The program has been extended by further topics, procedures and mechanisms that
put greater emphasis on speak-up
communication, prevention and detection of breaches, grouping and managing environmentally relevant risks,
systematic education and informing
about the state of fulfilment of binding requirements in the field of environmental protection.
Any and all requirements, tasks
and responsibilities for implementing
the ECMS are described in Group
Directive KRL.0.17, which is based on
the requirements of the ISO 14001
standard and the standard for compliance management systems.
All Group brands’ parent companies are implementing the ECMS program in all phases of their business
activities and in the lifecycle of their
products and services. As one of the
major brands representing the Group,
ŠKODA has taken over the requirements for environmental compliance and incorporated them into its internal standards and it already applies.
The ECMS will be included in the
forthcoming, newly updated IMS manual to become part of the integrated
management system and will replace
the former EMS. All information will
be integrated into environmental training, which is intended for all ŠKODA
AUTO employees. RED
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Principles of
compliance and the
environment
Training effectiveness
(number of trained employees)
Four-eye principle for data entry –
prevention of accidental or intentional
confusion of data
Verifying the effectiveness
of corrective actions by audits
Reporting reasonable suspicion
of serious misconduct (fraud
detection)
Search for environmental risks and
their grouping in order to determine
preventive measures
FROM A COMPLIANCE
POINT OF VIEW,
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION IS
MAINLY RAISING
THE FOLLOWING
QUESTIONS: HOW
DO WE PREVENT
VIOLATIONS OF
THE RULES IN THIS
AREA? HOW DO
WE DETECT THEM?
AND HOW DO WE
RESPOND TO THEM
APPROPRIATELY?
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