Category - material efficiency

Case Study: MFCA in Industrial Filter Production – Reducing the Use of Resources in Textile Filter Systems

ifu Hamburg GmbH, member of iPoint Group, HTW Berlin and UKOM jointly supported SMEs in using the ...

Earlier this year, a team of consultants from ifu Hamburg, Member of iPoint Group, held an initial...

The German family business C&C Bark Metalldruckguss und Formenbau GmbH produces magnesium die casts...

Material Flow Cost Accounting, or MFCA, is most widely known as an instrument used by manufacturing...

MFCA stands for Material Flow Cost Accounting and helps businesses to increase their material...

Hiroshi Tachikawa is the managing director at Propharm Japan. He helped numerous companies across...

Aus internationaler Sicht hat die Materialflusskostenrechnung bisher die größte Verbreitung in...

Materialkosten machen im Durchschnitt 40-50 % der Gesamtkosten in produzierenden Unternehmen aus.

Rapid prototyping, also called 3D printing, is the name of a much praised technological innovation...

Last week, I introduced you to the first three steps small and medium-sized companies need to take...

When calculating and reducing business-related environmental effects, two different approaches are...

The ISO 14000 series has proved to be handy for quite a while now. Companies and public...

There are manifold approaches to close the apparent gap between a shrinking resource base on the...

Green Growth, Sustainable Growth, Green Economy – All of these concepts require decoupling. A...

According to Tilman Santarius, one essential concept is missing in all the scenarios that lead...

The amount of manufacturing in Germany is vast. To guarantee survival in the global rotation of who...

Some of my recent articles have circled around an apparent antagonism between different schools of...

There is this old, ever repeating view of humanity as a counter-productive force when it comes to...