To address sustainability challenges, Siemens Electronics Works Amberg, which the World Economic Forum recognized as a digital lighthouse, elaborated a specific framework that allows for breaking down corporate sustainability targets.

This holistic view, referred to as the 5Ps of sustainability, considers the public ecosystem, plant infrastructure, people and culture, process and the product within the supply chain. This framework supports the commitment to achieve net zero by 2030, and even goes beyond that.

Action taken on the five levels are as follows:

• Public ecosystem: Public transportation is balanced with production shift schedules to support commuting, and public awareness for sustainability is supported by public presentations.
• Plant infrastructure: Siemens implemented a holistic energy management system via a digital twin of the factory. The factory runs with green electricity, and all new buildings are certified by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating system. Digital dashboards were set up to monitor energy consumption, GHG emissions, waste and water.
• People: Siemens installed an electric vehicle (EV) charging station for employees; the company also provides sustainability awareness training and climate neutral food in the canteen.
• Process: At the factory level, digitalization supported greater energy efficiency through AI models to optimize such areas as production, inventory, waste and testing efforts. The energy management software CO2 cockpit helps to monitor energy consumption and matches this data with the production data to calculate the CO2 emissions per product. A digital name plate system helps to connect a product to its online representation, such as technical data, certificates and manuals. This saves tons of paper and plastic that enclose the final packaging, and the system serves to prepare future circularity models.
• Product: Siemens developed a blockchain-based dynamic PCF management tool for secure and trustworthy end-to-end PCF requesting, aggregating and sharing along the supply chain. This supports Siemens as well as the industry in managing the PCF and in decarbonizing.

Thanks to those transformations, direct energy consumption was reduced by 5% (43% per volume produced), GHG emissions were reduced by 58% (77% per volume produced) and total material waste was reduced by 6% (43% per volume produced).