Produce Parts Responsibly and Locally
Did you know that Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing) can be used as a tool to reduce carbon emissions? By only manufacturing the parts you need, using only the material necessary, local to where the parts are required you’re able to avoid; excess stock from minimum order quantities, waste material from fabrication and lengthy cross-continent delivery, all of which can be harmful to the environment!
Understanding and quantifying the potential benefits of 3D printing for our environment is challenging, especially when it is difficult to know where to start with this rapidly emerging manufacturing process. Therefore, Dimanex has enriched its own AI based analytics engine such that it is possible to identify and quantify the benefits that additive manufacturing can bring to a more sustainable environment. This allows users to understand the potential savings in for instance in reduction of waste material, scrapping of unsold parts and capital lying idle on shelves in large volumes of parts.
Dimanex CO2e Reduction Indicator
Our analytics engine now has been enhanced with a CO2e Reduction Indicator. The first release of our CO2e Reduction Indicator is now available, allowing users to understand the potential CO2e annual savings that can be achieved when switching from traditional manufacturing to additive manufacturing.
Slow moving stock with high minimum order quantities can ultimately result in scrap parts at the end of a service lifetime of a component. Not resorting to minimum quantities ordered, but reordering these items using additive manufacturing results in less parts manufactured, less material used and less parts being scrapped. With Dimanex you are able to see the potential savings as well as the quantity and mass of components you can remove from warehousing when additive manufacturing is adopted.
The second component of our CO2e Reduction Indicator looks at the benefits of locally sourcing components. Of course local sourcing can reduce lead-time for a start, which in turn makes stock-keeping more manageable, resulting in less stock and better availability for customers. But local 3D printing of parts also reduces the need for kilometers of transport, resulting in significantly lower CO2 emissions. The CO2e Reduction Indicator calculates the difference in carbon emissions between traditional sourcing and sourcing locally. Local 3D printing of parts is provided by us by our global network of over a thousand partner service providers.
Resourcing One Component Locally - the Equivalent of Planting 16 Trees!
A great example of such CO2 emission reduction is one of our customers that, by means of our analytics and resorting to 3D printing, has quantified benefits by sourcing parts where they are needed within China to their local facility rather than from France from where they are normally delivered. By working this way our tool indicated that they are reducing their CO2e by 80 kilograms per year - an amount that would require around 16 trees to absorb!
To summarise, our CO2e Reduction Indicator analyses and quantifies the CO2 savings you can achieve using additive manufacturing. Based on these analytical insights, manufacturing your parts can be sourced locally and only in the amount of material you require.. So, through the use of AI based analytics and additive manufacturing companies can quickly cut CO2e emissions. Insights and results that can be used in their ESG reporting as well. Let us help you save costs and contribute significantly towards a better environment!
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