Industrial Manufacturing

Companies that conduct discrete manufacturing operations are required to comply with a variety of regional, national and international compliance mandates to manage and communicate emissions, prevent or mitigate workplace injuries and improve the efficiency and productivity of business operations.

For more than a decade, ESS has provided software solutions that enable manufacturers to reduce operational complexities to lower costs and risks, and achieve operational excellence for EHS performance.

Challenges and Solutions

	Industry Challenge	ESS Solution
	GHG Inventory. Conducting a carbon inventory and estimating/managing emissions based on ICMM or WBCSD standards or national and international compliance mandates.	GHG/Carbon Management
	Energy Efficiency. Companies are discovering that managing GHG emissions also offers opportunities to cut costs by reducing electric use.	GHG/Carbon Management
	GHG Strategy. Support business operations by conducting forecasting and analysis to optimize financial performance against a growing number of market-based compliance standards that regard carbon as an asset or liability.	GHG/Carbon Management
	Worker Health & Safety. Prevent costly workplace incidents with streamlined incident data management. Enable timely identification of accident trends to reach zero-harm objectives. Ensure company policies are uniformly and consistently applied across the organization.	Health & Safety
	Environmental Compliance. Streamline compliance with rapidly growing local national and global environmental regulations and standards. Provides support for recordkeeping, monitoring, testing and reporting for compliance at a single facility or across a multi-jurisdictional enterprise.	Environmental Compliance
	Emergency Planning and Response. Despite your best efforts, bad things can happen. Minimizing the impacts of a crisis event and recovering to normal operations quickly is critical, and this is best done by bringing your overall crisis management program together under one umbrella with our application.	Crisis Management
	Ensure refrigerant regulatory compliance with ozone-depleting substance (ODS) and greenhouse gas (GHG) refrigerants, while saving money on skyrocketing prices, and improving system reliability and energy efficiency.	Refrigerant Management

Industry Drivers

	Compliance	Business
	Federal Environmental Agencies (e.g., US EPA, Environment Canada, European Commission DG) Multi-Media Pollutant Release and Discharge Reporting (e.g., US FormR, EU PRTR, Canadian NPRI, Australian NPI) Air Emission Regulations (e.g., US CAA Title V, US CAA HON) Hazardous Waste Regulations (e.g., US RCRA Large Quantity Generators) Surface Water Discharge Regulations (e.g., US NPDES point source and stormwater regulations) Refrigerant Management Regulations including Federal (e.g., US Clean Air Act Title VI) and the State/Provincial level (e.g., California Air Resources Board)	Increasing Output Demand Increasing Materials Cost Greater Regulatory Scrutiny on Operations and Products

Selected Clients

	Clients	Scope
	Volvo Trucks NA	One of the leading heavy truck and engine manufacturers in the world, providing both highway and vocational trucks and tractors under the Volvo brand. Customer since 1999.
	Lennox International	Lennox, a leading provider of climate control solutions for heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration supports compliance management in over 100 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. Customer since 2007.
	MeadWestvaco	MWV is a global leader in packaging and packaging solutions for the cosmetics and personal care, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, home and garden and media industries. A Fortune 500 company with sales, manufacturing and converting facilities on six continents and customers in over 100 countries around the world. Customer since 1997.