Today the yearly amount of material used in the manufacturing industry reaches a value of 500 billion euros with an inherent potential for further savings of about 20%. The discussed, multilevel EcoX-assessment is a proven measure to increase the urgently needed process transparency of producing companies and allows a sensitization of the corresponding stakeholders at the same time. Therefore, all necessary production steps, beginning from the provision of raw material stage up to the delivery of the final product are analyzed and structured. A visually attractive and easily comprehensible evaluation of the occurring resource flows and generated value-reducing performances (from an ecological and economical point of view) are provided on this basis. The logical consequence is the identification of so-called HotSpots, which indicate necessary optimization measures and directly prioritize these according to the expected performance or effort.
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