Sustainability
Improve sustainability and uncover pivotal cost savings in just 60 days
Sustainable operations don’t have to come at a high operational or capital cost. You can improve the sustainability of your operations at the same time as you improve your costs.
Often, the most significant opportunities to improve sustainability also improve cost. There is no need to compromise between one or the other. For example:
Increasing your yield or reducing waste reduces the total amount of resources required for your production and the impact of shipping raw materials to and waste from your facility.
Improving the operating efficiency of your most energy-intensive processes also decreases your largest energy cost.
Increasing your throughput allows you to run fewer days within the year and reduce total energy consumption and it reduces the number of days your people drive to your facility.
You can uncover the most powerful opportunities to improve sustainability within your organization and identify the hidden overlap with improving cost using our Zero Based methodology. We then work with you to realize these opportunities within 60 days.
How is this different?
Consciously or subconsciously, most organizations have ruled out the biggest opportunities for improvement (in sustainability, cost, and throughput). These opportunities are either:
Invisible - You need a method to identify hidden opportunity in your organization
Impossible - You need a problem-solving methodology designed to tackle the “impossible” problems
Many sustainability initiatives target highly visible, low impact opportunities (LED lights, reducing printer usage, reducing office waste) rather than looking at the main drivers of energy usage, emissions, and waste.
These highly visible opportunities have a low impact when compared to the total environmental footprint of the typical manufacturing plant. That’s why we focus on high impact opportunities that will strengthen your financials and avoid future risks as regulations, investor pressure, and customer and employee demand moves to favour sustainable production.
How do we help?
We use Zero-Based analysis to identify all of the opportunities that exist within your current operations and Variable Analysis to work with your team to realize them within 60 days. We:
Perform a Zero-Based analysis on your facility’s top sustainability metric. We then work with your team to prioritize the top opportunities based on the value of the opportunity, complexity to realize, and cost savings.
Tackle the most significant opportunities with a team to measurably improve sustainability and cost in 60 days or less.