PSImetals Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) Tracking Take the first step on your decarbonization journey
Track CO₂ emissions at piece and product level with PSImetals
PSImetals Product Carboon Footprint (PCF) Tracking tracks the material and energy consumptions along all the production steps. It also calculates corresponding CO2 equivalent emissions for individual pieces of product. It's the next step on your decarbonization journey.
For a net zero world
The PSImetals Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) Tracking approach provides transparent calculations based on configurable Quality Process Snapshots. This approach also includes the tracking of energy consumption and CO2 emissions at piece and product levels, along the entire production chain. It tracks all emission-relevant process data and calculates scope 1, scope 2, and upstream scope 3 CO2 emissions in real-time. It lays the foundation for green KPIs, optimizes production planning, and strikes a balance between sustainability and efficiency.
The detailed monitoring and forecasting of energy consumption and CO2 equivalent emissions provided by PSImetals PCF enables optimized production planning, scheduling, and execution. By balancing green KPIs—such as energy usage and carbon emissions—with traditional economic KPIs like throughput, quality, costs, and due dates, manufacturers can achieve both sustainability and efficiency.
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Benefits
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Enhanced product certification
Integrates PCF data into product certificates, ensuring transparency and accountability.
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Real-time tolerance monitoring
Continuously checks emissions data against predefined tolerances during production.
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Comprehensive emissions tracking
Calculates and visualizes CO₂ equivalent emissions throughout the production process.
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Material genealogy integration
Tracks emissions along the entire material genealogy for accurate reporting.
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Sustainability compliance
Helps meet environmental regulations and sustainability goals effectively.
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Operational efficiency
Enhances overall production efficiency by integrating emissions tracking into existing workflows.
Features
Assignment of data to piece and product
Tracking of CO2 equivalent emissions at the piece and product level throughout the entire metals production chain, from preparation and charging of raw materials via the different production steps, to the shipment of the final products to the customers (also known as "CRADLE-TO-GATE" PCF tracking).
Business intelligence readiness
Specialized in the metals industry, the PSImetals Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) Tracking enhances shop floor awareness through statistical evaluation and reporting, empowering you to maintain transparency on progress in production decarbonization.
Real-time data collection
Real-time data collection enables reliable PCF online calculations. PCF data is handled like today's quality data: easy to implement and easy to use within established software components, enabling comprehensive process optimization regarding product quality, including CO2 emission criteria.
Whitepaper
Optimizing CO2 emissions tracking with the PSImetals PCF Tracking
Discover how PSImetals helps steel producers track CO2 emissions across the entire production chain.
- Monitor emissions from raw materials to finished products
- Integrated with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
- Optimize production with green KPIs
Frequently asked questions
How does PSImetals PCF take into account emissions not related to specific materials in a production line?
It is possible to define lump sum emissions at the production line and area level that are not part of the detailed production order steps of a specific material. An example of this would be production preparation or idle times with no material in the line. This can be evaluated from historical data of consumptions that cause emissions at a certain period and the amount of steel produced during this period in the respective area.
How does PSImetals PCF take into account scope 3 emissions of raw materials depending on individual batches delivered by the supplier?
Like other properties of this material, the specific scope 3 emissions of a raw material can be provided by the supplier and stored in the related material master data. It can be used in the emission calculation after charging the material during the production process.
How does PSImetals PCF communicate with the involved automation and ERP software systems to exchange the required process and calculated PCF data?
PSImetals uses standard interfaces to exchange messages with the Level 1/2 automation layer such as production reports containing the consumed electrical energy, gas and raw material amounts. It also communicates with the ERP system, for example, through reports containing the CO2 emissions calculated per production step and aggregated over all steps so far.
How does PSImetals PCF consider scrap lost during process?
PSImetals manages the scrap lifecycle within the plant: so when scrap occurs during production, scrap material is created which inherits its portion of PCF. When the scrap is charged into EAF, the PCF backpack is added to the heat. However, guidelines should be defined by regulating authorities. PSImetals can also work with gross and net weights and is flexible with the rules configuration.
Can PSImetals connect to third party system to provide consolidated PCF data across the value chain?
Yes, PSImetals provides out of the box integration middleware that could integrate third party systems.
Can PSImetals integrate downstream manufacturing?
Typically, PSImetals provides the PCF data to ERP which will forward it to the consuming downstream industry, a PCF backpack provided with the purchased coil. A PCF backpack is the amount of emitted CO2 assigned to a piece of material.
