IPA 19/6 – OSRAM – Determination and TCO Evaluation of Production Output Improvements @ Electronics Production with the minimum of resources
The need to reduce the quantity of resources used while increasing production output is key.
Therefore we need to improve the productivity of resources (Material & Energy).
As result we want manufacture as much as possible from the use of a given quantity of raw materials and energy.
A paradigm change is needed to achieve this: Instead of “maximum profit from the minimum of capital” we need to achieve “maximum profit from the minimum of resources”.
Whatever waste or heat there is in a process must be determined and evaluated within the different manufacturing process.
The specific final energy consumption in manufacturing industries in Germany was reduced by 64 % between 1960 and 2000.
Prerequisites for these increases in resource efficiency were and still are technological innovations.
Companies that are acquiring a cost advantage today through efficiency technologies will further consolidate this advantage in the future.