Webinar series: sustainability driving growth within companies

Sustainability is not just a goal to achieve, but an essential path to ensuring the continuity of both society and businesses.

There are a number of reasons why companies operating in the supply chain and manufacturing industries need to think about and invest in sustainable business practices.

Cloud for Sustainability applies innovative machine learning and data analysis to spot areas of improvement.

If Europe is going to meet its climate goals, it must decarbonize its manufacturing sector. Approximately 12% of the territory's greenhouse gas emissions comes from manufacturing activities. The electrification and decarbonization of heat production are among the most frequently mentioned solutions, but digital technologies can also help green factories while improving the performance of the sector as a whole.

The implementation of Industry 4.0 principles is increasingly vital in many manufacturing sectors. But the success of this technological shift will depend on how well Industry 4.0 accounts for two major challenges facing our societies: the environmental crisis and the digital transformation. These two challenges are often perceived to be distinct — if not incompatible, but in reality they are complementary where manufacturing is concerned.

Because commercial aviation traffic is subject to the whims of the economy and public health, there is an urgent need for a digital transformation in aircraft engineering, manufacturing and life cycle management. Going digital will make it possible to design better, faster and at a lower cost while ensuring excellent quality and maintenance. It will also foster the emergence of designs and solutions to reduce the environmental footprint of airplanes in the future.

Digitalized, automated and optimized: Industry 4.0 is a manufacturing model that is meant to address all the new challenges that will define our economies in the coming decades. That means it is impossible to overlook environmental questions and their economic corollary, namely, the circular economy.