Input efficiency

Q1 and Q2:

  • Planning
  • Leak repair
  • Cyber-security
  • Variable speed drive
  • Air balance
  • Audits
  • Reliability-centred maintenance plan

Q3 and Q4:

  • Metering
  • Energy Management Information Systems (EMIS)
  • Power quality (PQ) and enterprise resource planning (ERP)
  • Costing models
  • Group energy buying

Q5 and Q6:

  • EMIS
  • ERP
  • Digital integration (DI)
  • Refrigeration upgrades
  • Refrigerant replacement
  • PQ

Q7 and Q8:

  • Fuel switching

Q9 to Q12:

  • None

Process efficiency

Q1 and Q2:

  • None

Q3 and Q4:

  • Planning
  • Audits
  • Predictive maintenance
  • Takt time
  • Digital mapping
  • Activity-based costing (ABC)

Q5 and Q6:

  • DI
  • By-product recovery
  • Robotics

Q7 and Q8:

  • Internal logistics

Q9 to Q12:

  • None

Output efficiency

Q1 and Q2:

  • None

Q3 and Q4:

  • Waste diversion

Q5 and Q6:

  • Water recovery

Q7 and Q8:

  • Heat recovery

Q9 to Q12:

  • None

Circular recovery in-house

Q1 and Q2:

  • None

Q3 and Q4:

  • Planning

Q5 and Q6:

  • Planning

Q7 and Q8:

  • Planning

Q9 to Q12:

  • Investment

Carbon life cycle assessment

Q1 and Q2:

  • None

Q3 and Q4:

  • Data collection

Q5 and Q6:

  • Data integration

Q7 to Q12:

  • Protocol and standards validation and verification
  • Offset and credit actions

Roadmap for input actions

  • Champion and team selection
    Lead and loss correction
    Canadian Industrial Program for Energy Conservation (CIPEC training, Excellence In Manufacturing Consortium (EMC)/Lean
    • Takt time analysis and ABC
      Input cost correction
    • Reliability centered maintenance PQ and power factor (PF)
      Facility air balance/humidity
  • Cybersecurity
    • Digital mapping
      Submetering
      EMIS

Roadmap for process actions

  • Operational efficiency
    • Optical sensors
      Ergonomic retrofit
      Robotics
      Byproduct recovery
    • Takt time analysis
      Predictive maintenance
      Product costing review
      ABC
      Cash-to-cash cycle analysis
  • Digital pathway
    • DI
      Bar coding
      ERP
      Traceability

Roadmap output actions

  • Circular processes
    • Heat recovery
      Water re-use
      Circular recovery of organics
    • Fuel switching and contracts
      Reusable packaging
  • Digital pathway
    • Fluid dynamics analysis
      Carbon management
      Product costing