Research & High Technology Industry

High tech manufacturing operations, from chemical-intensive semiconductor manufacturing to final assembly of electronics, require excellent EHS performance. High tech manufacturing combines time to market pressures with exacting cleanroom standards and rapid innovation to challenge EHS professionals.

ESS has substantial experience in your industry, reflected in our Products and Solutions to help achieve operational excellence in EHS and assure your social license to operate.

Challenges & Solutions

	Industry Challenge	ESS Solution
	Resource Optimization: Expensive and limited high purity water, energy, and chemicals must be optimized to maximize manufacturing efficiency.	Performance, combined with Air, Chemical, Water, and Waste Modules.
	Resource Optimization: Expensive and limited high purity water, energy, and chemicals must be optimized to maximize manufacturing efficiency.	Air, Chemical, Water, Waste, and Performance Modules for multi-media mass balance
	EHS Management Systems: Customer and internal expectations for conformance with the ISO 14000 and 18000 series, and continuous improvement demonstration.	Performance, Tasking, Training Modules
	Cradle to Grave Chemical Management: Handling all aspects of chemical use, including new chemical review, hazard identification, MSDS management, inventory tracking, and waste disposal.	Inventory, MSDS, Performance, Waste Modules plus Handheld Enablers
	Global Climate Change: High tech manufacturing processes can be energy intensive, and may use high global warming potential chemicals. Customer and institutional investor inquiries are driving the need for understanding and active management of carbon footprint.	GHG/Carbon Management
	Incident and Crisis Management: Despite your best efforts, bad things can happen. Minimizing the impacts of a crisis event is critical, and this is best done by bringing your overall incident and crisis management program together - under one umbrella with our application.	Crisis Management
	Environmental and Safety Compliance: High tech manufacturing operations, particularly those involving semiconductors, can be highly regulated based on materials used. Strong compliance performance is key to optimizing your relationship with regulators, including environmental protection, safety, and fire department authorities.	Environmental Compliance and Health and Safety
	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, US OHSA, Environment Canada, European Commission DG) Air Emission Regulations (e.g., US CAA Title V) Hazardous Waste Regulations (e.g., US RCRA characteristic hazardous wastes) Surface Water Discharge Regulations (e.g., US NPDES point source and stormwater regulations) Voluntary Reporting Guidelines (e.g., SEMI EHS Guidelines, GRI) Refrigerant Management Regulations including Federal (e.g., US Clean Air Act Title VI) and the State/Provincial level (e.g., California Air Resources Board)	Rapid technological innovation Exacting manufacturing requirements Exotic materials and chemicals Product stewardship regulations

Selected Clients

	Client	Description
	Intel Corporation	The world's largest semiconductor company and the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers. Customer since 1997.
	Los Alamos National Labs	A United States Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory managed and operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS). The laboratory is one of the largest multidisciplinary institutions in the world. It was started in 1943 to run, in secret, the Manhattan Project, and is a designated National Historic Landmark of the United States. Customer since 2001.
	Nintendo of America Inc	In 2007, Nintendo ranked 10th on the list of largest software companies in the world. Nintendo, a multinational corporation, was founded in 1889 in Japan to produce handmade playing cards and gained notoriety in the 1980's with video games Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros. Customer since 2002.