Big Challenges for Big Industries

Industries around the globe are feeling the pinch. Not only are they having to deal with the biggest economic crisis the world has seen since the 1950’s, but they also have the ever watchful eye of environmentalists forever over their shoulder, analysing their output and measuring the ever growing size of their carbon footprint. As well as this business’ must factor in the demands of your customers who have to shell out more and more to heat their homes, fuel their cars and feed their families. Customers are now more aware than ever about how much money they are spending on their bills and an increasing number of them are becoming more and more unhappy with big business as they report profits and continue to raise their prices.

It’s not an easy time to be in this line of work, there’s a lot of pressure on your to deliver results, make a profit and still be environmentally sound. Many companies are striving towards all these goals, however it’s difficult to persuade the general public that they are doing all they can to make this possible. There is one thing that companies can do to make all of the above achievable though – the answer lies in data analysis.

By collecting and collaborating data from different arms of the business, with everything from production emissions, transport emissions and generate a real picture about how much the product costs to produce in real time allowing you can get to grips with the real cost of your business and the real cost to your customer.

As well as generating a picture of the cost of your products you can also examine the price paid by the environment as you continue to extract, refine and transport the your materials. It is now more important than ever before for big business to understand what kind of effect their developments have on the environment. With the Kyoto Treaty in motion and governments looking at business across the board to get their affairs in order, more and more industries are looking into investing in green technologies and condition monitoring techniques in order to try and reduce their carbon footprint in line with government guidelines and the Kyoto Treaty.

The first step business must take in making the effort to go green and to shaving a few inches off their carbon footprint is by getting all the data about their current environmental standings. By installing a system where you can monitor the amount of emissions you are releasing into the environment on a daily, monthly and yearly basis. With a number of these monitoring systems in place you can begin to gather information and paint yourself a picture of whereabouts your big spenders are in terms of emission producers.

With this picture in mind you can then make waves into reducing your carbon footprint, becoming more energy efficient. Big businesses across the globe are investing in technologies that reduce the release of emissions into the atmosphere by condensing and filtering the greenhouse gasses released as a bi product of production. This is by no means a fool proof solution to the problem of climate change, but it’s a start.

We can’t just rely on big business to pull us back from the environmental edge; it is all our responsibility to go green and to protect the environment. Whether this is by recycling our household rubbish, flying less, trading out petrol guzzling cars in for more environmentally friendly forms of transport or by turning the thermostats in our homes down a couple of degrees. We all have a responsibility to look after the environment in order to try and delay the effects of climate change for as long as possible.

Big businesses, no matter how unwilling they might seem to be are making efforts to clean up their act and reduce the massive pressure they put on our already unstable ecosystem. This will be a slow, painful and incredibly expensive process that we all have to embark on so that our children and our children’s children will be able to enjoy the same benefits we have.

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