Industry 4.0 illustrated – Resource efficiency through digitalisation

Posted on 27. May 2019By Anette Weyers

Digital and fully-automated processes boost resource efficiency for companies in the manufacturing sector. VDI ZRE’s new video uses Blechwarenfabrik Limburg to show how this works. There, several management systems are ... watch movie →

Heavy Metal: Forming technology becomes energy and material efficient

Posted on 3. January 2019By Anette Weyers

Forming metals with cold and/or hot techniques consumes enormous amounts of energy. Increased precision and new technical innovations in deep drawing and forging are the key to greater energy and ... watch movie →

Recycling plastics – Resource efficiency with an optimized sorting method

Posted on 25. September 2018By Anette Weyers

In Germany alone, two and a half million tons of plastic packaging land in the yellow trash can.* Since the various plastics are very difficult to separate from one another, ... watch movie →

New from old: resource efficiency through remanufacturing

Posted on 1. June 2018By Louisa Rudow

A new film on the subject of remanufacturing has been released by the VDI Resource Efficiency Center, showing how small and medium-size companies (SMEs) can save materials and energy by ... watch movie →

Generating electricity from industrial waste heat

Posted on 11. December 2017By Louisa Rudow

German industry releases 200 billion kilowatt-hours of thermal energy a year into the environment as unused waste heat – roughly equivalent to the entire energy consumption of the federal state ... watch movie →

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