Green IT Consultancy
Green IT Consultancy
DURABILIT stands for durability, meaning environmental friendliness and cost effectiveness. DURABILIT ICT strives towards a 100% CO2 emission neutral IT world and supports organizations to make the transition to become 100% CO2 neutral / carbon neutral and climate neutral! DURABILIT helps its customers to analyse energy usage and related co2 emissions, increase life time of hardware, to reduce CO2 / carbon footprint and energy usage and to recycle according to the WEEE legislation.
DURABILIT stands for durability, meaning environmental friendliness and cost effectiveness. DURABILIT ICT strives towards a 100% CO2 emission neutral IT world and supports organizations to make the transition to become 100% CO2 neutral / carbon neutral and climate neutral! DURABILIT helps its customers to analyse energy usage and related co2 emissions, increase life time of hardware, to reduce CO2 / carbon footprint and energy usage and to recycle according to the WEEE legislation.
DURABILIT developed an Energy Calculator which will give an indication of energy reduction and CO2 reduction. This tool helps you to manage your IT Assets in an environmental friendly manner. The CO2-Calculator that was developed by DURABILIT® is called the DURABILIT GREENER NETWORK CALCULATOR. You can find more information about this innovation here.
As part of the reduction of the negative impact of your network on the environment, the use of refurbished equipment can play an important role.
Reusing products and buying refurbished network equipment is more environmental friendly than buying and implementing new network equipment due to the following 3 reasons at random:
1. Increasing the life time of hardware – this helps to reduce overall waste, co2 emissions / carbon footprint and related energy usage which would be wasted at recycling activities.
1. Increasing the life time of hardware – this helps to reduce overall waste, co2 emissions / carbon footprint and related energy usage which would be wasted at recycling activities.
2. Reduction of co2 emissions / carbon footprint and energy usage due to the simple fact that less new products and product parts are produced / manufactured and shipped (supply of raw materials, logistical movements, energy usage during the production processes).
3. Less logistical movements – from source location of raw material to processing plant, from processing plant to product parts factory, from product parts factory to assembly factory, from factory to warehouse, from warehouse to distributor, from distributor to reseller, from reseller to customer, from customer to trash company etc.
If you are interested in the Green IT service, please fill in our request form or call us or send us an email.
These are several Green IT Consultancy services that DURABILIT offers:
>> Product Life Cycle Audit
>> Supply Chain Analysis
>> Eco footprint analysis and advice
>> CO2 / carbon footprint analysis and CO2 compensation implementation
>> CO2 neutral IT network analysis and advice
>> Energy Audit and Solutions
>> Workshops on Closed-Loop Supply Chains - theory and best practice
Call us for workshops, consulting and audit services or send us an email.
ECO-FOOTPRINT aspects supply chain overview:
The positive environmental impact of re-usage of hardware is currenlty underestimated. This re-usage can take place during any time of the lifecycle of a product, and will have an immediate positive impact on the product- and cost- lifecycles. This has been shown by Prof. Dr. Ir. Harold Krikke, who has also devised the below CLSC (Closed Loop Supply Chain) product life-cylce.
Professor Dr. Ir. Harold Krikke explains closed loop supply chains :
The closed loop supply chain follows the product during its entire lifecycle and, using various loops, tries to either regain as much value from the product or tries to minimize the negative impact on the environment or neutralise any such effects. The above diagram gives an overview of these loops.
Prof Dr. ir. Harold Krikke - Supply Chain Management - Management Sciences faculty at the Open University in the Netherlands about this: “Since closed loop supply chains follow the complete lifecycle of a product, it contains much more than just the logistical aspect. In fact, we can clearly distinguish three important areas. In the first phase, everything is about the maintenance of the installed base. This entails all forms of support, maintenance and service, and can therefore be about repair or, for example, the replacement of ink cartridges. After this follows the reverse logistics phase, this is when the product or packaging is returned from the market. In this phase products are returned due to various reasons ranging from product recalls to dissatisfied customers. These products are then collected, tested and processed. Ideally, this phase is so effective that the product can be returned back into the original supply chain out of which it came. Both from an economic as well as from an environmental perspective, this is the best option. Should this not be possible, then one needs to find other solutions and the product then enters into an open loop. Companies should aim to postpone the moment when a product or packaging enters into an open loop as long as possible. There are several ways to recuperate and reuse products and packaging. Examples would be the refilling of ink cartridges, or a simple repair of a product. Refurbishment means an upgrade in quality, however, often not to the same level as a new product; cannibalisation entails the selective re-use of parts of the product either as spare parts for repairs or for remanufacturing. The latter is the most comprehensive way of recuperation of the product or packaging. Recycling should always be the last option. The way in which all different options are available depends heavily on the fact whether it concerns products or packaging. Ideally a product first enters into the re-use loop, then the remanufacturing loop, and finally in the recycling loop. The main concern here is that the product design and the market are suitable for this.”
Especially producers of print and copy machines are already used to remanufacturing. Both manufacturing and remanufacturing take place in an integrated process, so that the department of reverse logistics becomes an internal supplier for both the service department, as well as the production department. Complete, used models are integrated into the production line process and become an integral part of the new products, and will have the same level of quality and warranty. Some producers sell these products at a discount, other make no difference in price. Fact is that the internal cost-price is quite a bit lower and that this method of production is very profitable. Apart from this, companies can also save around 15% in energy costs during the production process.
Prof. Dr. ir. Harold Krikke: “The calculation of the cost-advantages and the benefits for the environment is not more difficult than other cost calculations within the supply chain. There are existing models to calculate this. A larger problem however is the fact that many companies do not register the necessary data to do these calculations. For example, many companies know what their total energy bill is, but only very few companies do actually know how much energy a certain production process uses.”
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