New Rockwell Automation White Paper

Rockwell Automation issued a new white paper today that shows how information solutions can help achieve manufacturers’ energy and sustainability goals. The paper, Manufacturing Executions Systems for Sustainability: Extending the Scope of MES to Achieve Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Goals, is being presented today at the IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications in Xi’an, China.

“Information solutions often focus on achieving production management benefits,” said Jeffrey Soplop, project manager for Rockwell Automation and one of the paper’s authors.  “However, as this paper illustrates, these solutions can be used to implement sustainable production to help reduce energy and raw material use; drive emissions monitoring and environmental reporting; and improve worker and product safety.”
The paper emphasizes that the business case for sustainability begins with a holistic approach to manufacturing, incorporating the principles of environmental stewardship, corporate responsibility and economic prosperity – tenets of a fundamental sustainability concept known as the triple bottom line.