Sustainable Industries

We will support you on your sustainability journey. With custom ESG strategies and roadmaps to sustainable production, as well as sustainable and innovative action plans, we will help you to become a sustainable business protecting planetary resources. Whether you need CSRD reports, digital ESG tools and software or an impact analysis, you can trust our interdisciplinary teams and expertise.

We will analyze your production processes, products or company in terms of their potential for resource efficiency and options for emissions reduction, sustainability and quality. We will support you when conducting your carbon footprint analysis (CCF and PCF), comprehensive analysis (LCA, LCC, SLCA) and offer easy to use LCAs using parameterization and hot-spot analysis. We will also help you with software selection for sustainability management, to help you systematically capture, evaluate and use your own sustainability data.

Maximize efficiency and CO₂ reduction in your industrial energy system with our expertise. We will identify the commercial leverage for optimization with energy systems integration and consideration of all energy sources. Together with you, we will design flexible energy systems based on innovative technologies and methods. Direct current systems are an innovative solution for the reliable, efficient and flexible distribution of electricity in your factory. Our support continues beyond the planning stage, from developing the strategic direction to optimizing the operation of your system with intelligent state-of-the-art solutions (e.g. AI).

Together, we will create the circular economy. Through circular business models, circular strategies and remanufacturing solutions, we will support you during the development of products and production systems that are designed for circularity.

We will help you to make targeted selections of materials that are appropriate for the circular economy and select the matching R-Strategies to maximize resource efficiency. And we will make sure that the implementation runs efficiently, e.g., through automation with robotics. Our goal is to create processes that are sustainable and efficient, conserve valuable resources, and secure your long-term commercial success.

Material-related requirements for complex products (such as those set by the RoHS2 Directive, REACH Regulation and PFAS restrictions), as well as other global, environmental product compliance regulations (e.g., ecodesign/ESPR), present major challenges to the affected companies. Will you be able to meet the growing global demands in the field of material and product-related environmental compliance?

Fraunhofer IPA establishes transparency, supporting you during the establishment and optimization of your compliance management system, with a focus on structures, processes and data.

In modern production, designing controlled production and maintenance processes that offer process reliability is just as important as implementing state-of-the-art digital quality management. We can support you in these areas using tried-and-tested tools, such as QFD, FMEA and technical risk management, but also with advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, smart maintenance and the Internet of Things (IoT). We can also support you when it comes to safety and security in the smart factory so that your production process remains reliable and offers future viability.