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Unilever CEO Urges Businesses, Governments and NGOs to Support Sustainability 26 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
In a wide-ranging interview with Guardian Sustainable Business to coincide with the first annual update of the company’s ambitious 10-year Sustainable Living Plan, Unilever CEO Paul Polman calls on bu...
Can Automation Retrofits Make Old Machines Better than New? 26 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
“Everything old is new again.” The late, great Peter Allen's wishful song lyric can be equally true for legacy machines and production lines as it is for aging operators, engineers and other humans. ...
How to Choose the Most Effective Energy Metrics 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
We’ve established that executives who focus on aligning and then optimizing people, processes, and technology in operational excellence models will position their organizations for success. This is tr...
Infographic: The Truth about Greenwashing 23 Aug 2013 | 10:06 pm
There are plenty of companies out there pushing their green, environmentally friendly, sustainable, ect products. A good marketing company can make even the biggest carbon footprint seem puny with a g...
Split-Stream Dust Collector Recovers Material as It Cleans and Cools the Air 23 Aug 2013 | 08:27 pm
Aerodyne Environmental’s SplitStream “S” dust collector is a counter-cyclonic dust collector that has no major moving components and is capable of handling a wide range of materials, all while requiri...
Eight Industrial Energy Monitoring Success Stories 23 Aug 2013 | 08:07 pm
I designed, built and installed my first energy monitoring system in a mental hospital in 1979, used the resulting data to essentially just tune up the building’s existing energy systems and reduced t...
Accenture Says It’s Still a Struggle to Engage Investors on Sustainability 23 Aug 2013 | 02:01 am
Once every three years, Accenture joins forces with the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) to conduct a comprehensive global study on corporate views on sustainability. “In addition to in-depth inte...
Sustainable Plant Insights: See Sustainability in Real Time 22 Aug 2013 | 09:08 pm
It’s common knowledge that properly maintained and functioning equipment uses less energy, and that a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) helps achieve that goal. But the right CMMS can ...
Turn a Rotary Screw Compressor into an Energy Source 22 Aug 2013 | 12:47 am
Industrial compressed air users looking for new ways to combat rising energy prices often overlook a significant resource in their plant: energy recovery from air compressors. Kaeser Compressors’ new ...
How Automation Could Have Saved Fukushima, Part 2 21 Aug 2013 | 10:04 pm
In Part 1 of this series, I discussed some of the factors that lead to the Fukushima meltdown. Here I focus only on the automatic vs. manual operation of the emergency cooling systems and the roles th...
