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This stamping plant is a 2.5 million-square-foot facility with over two thousand employees. At the time of the assessment, the plant was processing approximately 1,600 tons of steel per day into automotive vehicle components and parts such as body parts.
Rockwell Automation concentrates most of their energy conservation programs on reducing electricity usage because electricity is the majority of their energy consumption and carbon footprint. In 2008, when normalized to sales, Rockwell Automation reduced electricity usage in their 56 manufacturing locations by 9 percent from 2007.
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For Johnson Controls, demonstrating environmental sustainability is a vital element of “walking the talk” we deliver in the marketplace. As a long-recognized leader in developing environmentally friendly “green” buildings, it’s imperative that our own facilities are energy-efficient, use less water and minimize waste. During 2008 we continued to focus on our own operations to identify continuous improvement activities and better our performance.
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The majority of CO2 emissions associated with our manufacturing facilities is related to our energy usage. Our facilities consume more than $100 million worth of energy annually, resulting in 1.4 million metric tons of CO2 emissions per year. It is sound business practice to seek ways to reduce the financial and environmental costs of our energy use.
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Ford has reduced global energy use by 30 percent overall, or 19 percent per vehicle, compared to 2000 levels.
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GM global energy expenditures exceed one billion U.S. dollars annually. Both cost and environmental concerns make energy efficiency extremely important to us, and we focus on saving energy at all levels of GM operations. GM's global energy strategy continues to drive energy efficiency across our global operations.
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More efficient use of energy is essential to reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. At Nissan we are steadily reducing CO2 emissions by introducing energy-saving equipment and raising efficiency at our production sites worldwide.
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A recent comparative vacuum technology study performed by Dr. Kingman Yee, as part of a Chrysler Summer Intern Professors Program, found that air consumption could be reduced by 98% when equipping a robot’s end-of-arm tooling with COAXÆ technology and a Vacustat™ check valve.
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New Flyer Industries is a Winnipeg based heavy duty bus manufacturer, supplying vehicles to the US and Canadian markets. The company specializes in vehicles with†alternative-fuel drives such as electric trolleys, gasoline-electric and diesel-electric hybrid vehicles; as well as standard diesel buses.
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A four thousand, five hundred and fifty pound (4550 lbs.) race car is running at 170 mph and facing wind resistance of 150 mph. The car then enters a curve creating a three-degree “yaw” (the change in angle from the direction the car is headed and the airstream). The car struggles to maintain speed as the yaw changes and the dynamic downforce load on the car changes. Suddenly, the driver-less car comes to a stop on the stainless-steel track...
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Motor Coach Industries, headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, is the largest manufacturer of intercity tour coaches for the tour, charter, line-haul, scheduled service, commuter transit and conversion markets in the U.S. and Canada. The company operates a four screw-type air compressor system at its Clarence Avenue plant in Winnipeg. To maintain adequate system pressure at the plant, Motor Coach was forced to run all four compressors 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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