Ford Implements Global Solution to Manage Emissions
One of the world’s leading vehicle manufacturers, Ford Motor Company regards environmental performance as a business priority. It undertook a project to standardise reporting and management of carbon emissions internationally. Logica and CarbonSim implemented a solution that centralised reporting and aligned emissions management with business goals. This has since been extended to cover other environmental metrics including energy, waste and water.
The business challenge
Ford Motor Company manufactures and distributes vehicles in more than 200 markets across six continents. Each manufacturing site produces vast amounts of data on carbon emissions and other environmental aspects. This needs to be standardised and collated for legislative compliance and emissions management purposes.
Environmental assets and liabilities must now be regularly reported on, and can be openly traded between companies under regulations such as the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and through voluntary arrangements such as involvement in the Chicago Climate Exchange. Ford had an immediate need for a solution to meet a growing pressure of legislative reporting requirements, as well as to develop a consistent company wide approach to managing and reducing carbon emissions. This initially involved collecting and collating data across 54 manufacturing plants throughout Europe and the US.
The solution
Logica and CarbonSim worked closely with the Ford environmental team to rapidly deploy the EMISSIONS logic solution to cover dozens of sites in Europe and the Americas. EMISSIONS logic is a comprehensive emissions management solution that has enabled Ford to track greenhouse gas emissions and compliance against obligations as well as manage emissions allowances. It can also be used to evaluate strategies and projects for emissions reduction and
generate internal and external reports. As a result, Ford has been able to achieve a consistent approach to managing emissions across multiple manufacturing facilities, regulatory regimes and emissions calculation methodologies. A quickly realised benefit has been time savings related to tracking and managing large quantities of data to satisfy complex reporting requirements. This allows Ford to spend more time and effort on environmental improvements instead of data management.
The solution has since been extended, in line with Ford’s specific requirements, to cover comprehensive plant-specific metrics including energy, water, waste and overall performance against environmental objectives and targets. A regulatory module was also added which allows Ford to store facility and regional environmental regulations to support manufacturing operations.
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