PennEngineering's Journey Towards Carbon Neutrality with SINAI Technologies
Technology Category
- Functional Applications - Inventory Management Systems
- Functional Applications - Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
Applicable Industries
- Automotive
- Electronics
Applicable Functions
- Facility Management
- Warehouse & Inventory Management
Use Cases
- Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems
- Inventory Management
Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
PennEngineering is a technology and manufacturing firm that has been providing fastening solutions for compact electronics, automotive electronics, data, telecom and more since 1942. The PennEngineering portfolio includes PEM®, PROFIL®, HEYCO® PennAuto® and other leading brands. An important area of focus for PennEngineering is environmental responsibility. The company aims to promote carbon neutral practices by employing energy efficiency and improvement initiatives, reducing Scope 2 emissions through renewable power opportunities, and better waste management and water consumption practices. Recently, the company has begun to receive requests from their customers to share their scope 1 and scope 2 emissions to aid in value chain emissions tracking and enable decarbonization.
The Challenge
PennEngineering, a technology and manufacturing firm, has been providing fastening solutions for various industries since 1942. The company has a strong focus on environmental responsibility and aims to promote carbon-neutral practices. Recently, PennEngineering has been receiving requests from their customers to share their scope 1 and scope 2 emissions to aid in value chain emissions tracking and enable decarbonization. To respond to these requests and position the company as a leader in sustainability, PennEngineering decided to adopt a corporate-wide process to collect and calculate scope 1 and scope 2 GHG emissions across all manufacturing and technical facilities in the United States, Europe, and Asia. However, a major challenge was that most of PennEngineering’s global manufacturing facilities had never calculated or tracked GHG emissions. To ensure appropriate carbon accounting methodologies aligned with global standards were employed, PennEngineering reached out to SINAI to guide the company through the process of developing an inventory, in a fashion that could be repeatable annually for the business.
The Solution
SINAI’s Customer Success and Climate Change Experts took the lead in developing customized data collection templates for PennEngineering to gather scope 1 and scope 2 activity data from global operations. SINAI worked with PennEngineering to obtain a deep understanding of their manufacturing and technical facilities and establish the boundary for the company’s emissions. All scope 1 and scope 2 data was identified, gathered, and inputted into SINAI’s system in only 6 weeks. SINAI also led PennEngineering through GHG Protocol calculation methodologies, the appropriate global standards for GHG calculations, and demonstrated how the collected activity data was going to be used in the SINAI system to calculate the companies emissions. With all required calculation methodologies embedded in SINAI’s software, once activity data was inputted, scope 1 and scope 2 GHG calculations were automated and GHG results were instantly able to be viewed by PennEngineering’s team. All methodologies and calculations were set up in a manner so that emissions calculations could be repeated in the future as new activity data was gathered.
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