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“<strong>Green</strong>ing for Future”<br />

- TCS approach for<br />

Metals and Mining Industry<br />

Metals & Mining industry (M&M) contributes approximately<br />

4-5% of the total world’s greenhouse gas emissions (GHG),<br />

thus, making the demand for greening more pronounced.<br />

Unlike Information technology (IT) industries, M&M<br />

industries do not have a significant contribution from their<br />

datacenters (GHG emissions from IT equipments is<br />

negligible) but a whopping 70-90% of the emission comes<br />

from the manufacturing processes, for example, in Steel<br />

Industry majority of GHG emission is from the Iron Making<br />

process.<br />

Taking this into consideration, there is a need for a<br />

proactively different approach to help address their<br />

requirements on - carbon accounting, environmental and<br />

regulatory compliance, identification of cost reduction<br />

initiatives or Clean development Mechanism (CDM) and<br />

build intelligence in all aspects of operations.<br />

<strong>Tata</strong> <strong>Consultancy</strong> <strong>Services</strong>', (TCS) has designed and<br />

developed a comprehensive solution – “<strong>Green</strong>ing for<br />

Future” approach that caters to these specific needs of M&M<br />

industries. This approach focuses on building carbon<br />

footprints of all GHG emissions across the entire mining and<br />

metal producing value chain which will help build better<br />

internal control, make reporting easier, accurate and timely,<br />

thus, enabling the organizations to achieve their business<br />

goals.


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<strong>Green</strong>ing for Future - TCS approach for Metals and Mining Industry<br />

About the Author<br />

Sanjeev Ranjan<br />

As the Head of Growth Initiatives – Resources, ERU - ISU , he<br />

has more than 22 years of cross- functional and hands on<br />

experience in the areas of Business Strategy and<br />

Operationwith special focus on Business Process Analysis,<br />

Business Process Re-engineering, Operational Excellence,<br />

Project Management, Production Planning and Control,<br />

Marketing Strategy, OE sales, Branding and Building of<br />

Distribution Channel for retail sales, Benchmarking, New<br />

Product Introduction / Product Lifecycle Management ,<br />

Supply Chain Management – Strategic Sourcing, Six Sigma,<br />

TS 16949 auditor, Practitioner of TPM, Practitioner of Theory<br />

of Constraints, Managing teams including heading business<br />

functions.<br />

CSR Krishnan<br />

As the Global Sales and Delivery Head - IT infrastructure<br />

consulting, he has more than 17 years of experience in roles<br />

& responsibilities covering a wide range of architecture and<br />

technology areas including System software, Performance,<br />

Capacity and Availability management, Architecture<br />

solutions and System integration. He has worked<br />

extensively in locations across the globe - United States,<br />

Japan, United Kingdom, Switzerland, South Africa,<br />

Singapore and Sweden.<br />

Prashant Kumar<br />

As a team member in Growth Initiatives - Resources, ERU –<br />

ISU, he has more than 10 years of diverse experience in<br />

mining and metal industry across various functions such as<br />

Procurement, Operations, Maintenance, Marketing for a<br />

Steel Industry and has good knowledge in Post-M&A<br />

Integration, Strategic Sourcing, Procurement, Strategic<br />

Outsourcing, Value Chain Analysis, Knowledge<br />

Management, New product development, Benchmarking<br />

and industry analysis.


Table of Contents<br />

1. Introduction 3<br />

2. <strong>Green</strong> Business Drivers – IT View 3<br />

3. <strong>Green</strong> <strong>Manufacturing</strong> - Current Challenges 4<br />

4. Approach To <strong>Green</strong> <strong>Manufacturing</strong> 4<br />

5. <strong>Green</strong> Intelligence 6<br />

6. <strong>Green</strong> Logistics And Transportation 9<br />

7. <strong>Green</strong> IT 10<br />

8. <strong>Green</strong>ing Benefits 12<br />

9. Conclusion 12<br />

10. Reference 13<br />

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<strong>Green</strong>ing for Future - TCS approach for Metals and Mining Industry


Introduction<br />

The demand for greening of business practices has reached a tipping point. Each day we come across a new<br />

development, a corporate commitment, a technological breakthrough, a new partnership addressing<br />

environmental challenges, or a new finding from various agencies, labs or research groups about the progress being<br />

made. Amid the multitude developments there is progress, but it’s not always obvious or straightforward.<br />

Organizations are getting cleaner and more efficient, but only incrementally. Many of the gains are offset by the<br />

ever-growing economy. The greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per dollar of economic activity may be dropping but<br />

the growing economy means that these emissions are largely unchanged. Moreover, there does exists a huge gap in<br />

the controls and measures which have been built in developed economies against those in developing economies.<br />

Mining and Metal Industry contributes to approximately 4-5% of the total world GHG emissions. Technological<br />

advancements in the industry over the past 25 years have enabled substantial reductions in CO2 emissions. Work is<br />

continuously on to build technologies that would radically reduce emissions and take the organizations to lower<br />

levels of GHG output.<br />

In this white paper, we will explain how TCS can help Mining and Metal Industry re-invent itself and act as a catalyst to<br />

achieve its vision of <strong>Green</strong> <strong>Manufacturing</strong> using strategic lever of IT coupled with a strong understanding of the<br />

business which focuses on three main areas –<br />

- <strong>Green</strong> Intelligence<br />

- <strong>Green</strong> Transportation and logistics, and<br />

- <strong>Green</strong> IT Consulting<br />

<strong>Green</strong> Business Drivers – IT View<br />

The change in attitude towards the environment among businesses is, no doubt, motivated in part by the same<br />

ethical concerns that preoccupy individuals. Yet it is also driven by a hard, practical reality. For organizations, the<br />

environmental impact of their activities represents a serious – and in some cases a massive risk. Environmental risk is<br />

viewed today in the same way as any other kind of risk. This has led to changes in the way businesses operate which<br />

makes it imperative for us to understand the key business drivers for the changed perception about environmental<br />

impact (Fig -1).<br />

<strong>Green</strong> Business Drivers<br />

A Profound Environment and Economic Change is Gathering Pace<br />

The drivers for <strong>Green</strong> initiatives<br />

comes from a variety of sources:<br />

�Government mandates<br />

�Energy efficiency<br />

�Product and company<br />

differentiation<br />

�Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)<br />

�Corporate Sustainability<br />

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<strong>Green</strong>ing for Future - TCS approach for Metals and Mining Industry<br />

<strong>Green</strong> Regulations<br />

<strong>Green</strong> Consumers<br />

Investor Focus<br />

Executive View<br />

Business Initiatives<br />

Carbon Tax<br />

<strong>Green</strong> IT<br />

Voluntary<br />

Minority<br />

Growing<br />

Leading Edge<br />

Niche Projects<br />

None<br />

Interesting<br />

*Source: Forrester Research Inc. (Nov 2007)<br />

The Present The Future<br />

<strong>Green</strong> initiatives demonstrate the alignment & commitment of<br />

Corporate and business units towards protecting the environment.<br />

Fig 1<br />

Mandatory<br />

Majority<br />

Intense<br />

Mainstream<br />

Core to Business<br />

Multiple<br />

Required


<strong>Green</strong> <strong>Manufacturing</strong> - Current Challenges<br />

There is no denying of the fact that a greener company, with greener products and services, is more desirable to a<br />

growing segment of consumers and business customers. Because of the prominence of global warming concerns,<br />

going green has become part of any Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda to enhance customer and public<br />

perception. Some companies are led by “true believers” who simply want to do the right thing for the environment.<br />

To give prominence to the greening need, regulators in European Union (EU), United States (US), and elsewhere are<br />

aggressively monitoring this aspect of metal products and its related operations. This focuses on toxic materials<br />

used in building computing gear, disposal of electronic equipment, and emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse<br />

gases caused by energy / power consumption and other sources. Organizations have started believing that<br />

greening is not cost but it is a way of doing sustainable business – and this systematic thought has the potential to<br />

offer substantial cost reduction and in the process enhance the company’s competitive advantage.<br />

Global mining and metal production has been growing for the last 50 years. The steel industry, in particular, has<br />

grown to a production level of 1440 million mt in 2008 from a level of 200 million mt in 1950. The future growth in<br />

demand for steel will be driven mainly by the needs of the developing world which implies that the steel industry<br />

must continue to grow world wide by 3-5% and by 8-10% in China, India and Russia to satisfy these needs. The same<br />

logic also applies to other metal industries. But with this growth comes the increase in significant amount of GHG<br />

emissions.<br />

Unlike IT industries, metal industries do not have significant spend on datacenters, but their manufacturing process<br />

itself emits huge amount of GHG emissions. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),<br />

the steel industry accounts for between 4-5% of total world greenhouse gas emissions. On average, 1.7 tonnes of<br />

carbon dioxide are emitted for every tonne of steel produced. Another important aspect of metal industry is that<br />

approximately 90% of the emissions in the steel industry comes from Iron Making and about 60 - 70% of the<br />

emission in Aluminium industry comes from smelting operations, whereas the same from IT equipments is<br />

negligible.<br />

Approach to <strong>Green</strong> <strong>Manufacturing</strong><br />

In M&M Industries, the journey to climate neutrality is not a straight line, but a cycle, a matter of slimming down the<br />

GHGs that are within our responsibility and offsetting the remainder. Secondly, <strong>Green</strong> <strong>Manufacturing</strong> in Metal<br />

Industry is not only about datacenters but about GHG emissions across the entire metal producing value chain.<br />

Therefore, TCS defines its <strong>Green</strong> <strong>Manufacturing</strong> capability under three dimensions – <strong>Green</strong> Intelligence, <strong>Green</strong><br />

Transportation and Logisctis and <strong>Green</strong> IT Consulting.I It collectively attempts to cover the entire value chain with<br />

focus on how to make it green and lean using the Supply Chain Organisation’s (SCOR) model . This helps us to<br />

identify and minimize the “bad inputs and outputs” and maximize on the “Good outputs” (Fig -2 )<br />

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<strong>Green</strong>ing for Future - TCS approach for Metals and Mining Industry


Inputs<br />

Impacts<br />

Energy<br />

Water<br />

Mine<br />

� Production<br />

Planning<br />

� Contract &<br />

Non-contract<br />

mines<br />

� Fleet<br />

Management<br />

Mining & Ore Dressing<br />

<strong>Green</strong> SCOR Model<br />

�<strong>Green</strong> Intelligence – It facilitates carbon accounting across the metal producing value chain using green<br />

intelligence, which helps to capture this information and use it for better control and future development of<br />

Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM) Projects. The Carbon Emissions Management System (CEMS)<br />

framework developed in house helps to standardize and improve processes, provide single platform to manage<br />

environmental compliance, consistently supply emission data for carbon credits trading, and strategically link<br />

carbon accounting into company’s risk management framework. <strong>Green</strong> Transportation and Logistics – In the<br />

M&M industry, bulk of material is transported either through road, rail or sea. TCS <strong>Green</strong> Consultants help to<br />

make these operations greener and leaner by better scheduling and utilization of the fleet of mobile<br />

equipments leading to recurring savings which are then re-invested in maintaining the upkeep of the<br />

equipments.<br />

�<strong>Green</strong> IT Consulting – It looks after greening efforts focused at IT operations where TCS <strong>Green</strong> IT consultants<br />

helps customers align their IT vision and strategy with their business and sustainability goals to achieve superior<br />

performance. By improving the IT infrastructure and capabilities that affect people and processes across the<br />

organization, we can help our clients use IT to reduce their carbon footprint while increasing efficiency and<br />

productivity. The result is immediate environmental and business benefits, reduced costs and maximized value<br />

of our client’s IT spends.<br />

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<strong>Green</strong>ing for Future - TCS approach for Metals and Mining Industry<br />

Energy<br />

Energy Energy<br />

Minimize the “bad” inputs and outputs<br />

Raw<br />

Water Materials Water Water<br />

Energy Energy $ Energy<br />

Ore<br />

Processing<br />

� Scheduling &<br />

Tracking<br />

� Resource<br />

Blending<br />

� Inventory<br />

Management<br />

Air<br />

Water<br />

Waste<br />

Steel Processing & Finishing Transportation, Marketing & Distribution<br />

Metal<br />

Processing<br />

� Operations<br />

Scheduling<br />

� Production<br />

Recording<br />

� Downtime<br />

Tracking<br />

� Quality<br />

Air<br />

Water<br />

Waste<br />

Product<br />

System View of Environmental Lifecycle<br />

Integrated Product Policy – Lifecycle Assessment (LCA)<br />

Casting<br />

&<br />

Finishing<br />

� Scheduling &<br />

Tracking<br />

� Quality<br />

� Inventory<br />

Management<br />

Air<br />

Water<br />

Waste<br />

Fig 2<br />

Waste<br />

Rail Port Customer<br />

� Transport<br />

scheduling &<br />

Tracking<br />

� Train Loading<br />

� Inventory<br />

Management<br />

� Material<br />

Movement<br />

�Inventory<br />

Management<br />

�Berth<br />

Scheduling<br />

�Quality<br />

Air Air<br />

Water<br />

Air<br />

Water<br />

Waste<br />

Disposal<br />

� Invoice &<br />

Payments<br />

�Stock<br />

Movements<br />

�Inventory<br />

Management<br />

�Quality<br />

Minimize the “bad” inputs and outputs<br />

$


<strong>Green</strong> Intelligence<br />

<strong>Green</strong> Intelligence facilitates carbon accounting across the metal producing value chain which helps to capture this<br />

information and use it for better control and future development. The ‘Carbon Emission Management System’<br />

(CEMS) framework helps to understand various <strong>Green</strong>ing opportunities starting from input raw material, utilization<br />

of energy, air or water to the final product. It also cuts through various by-products, waste generated during the<br />

process. All these steps together help to understand the key industry GHG drivers (Fig – 3).<br />

Industry<br />

Expertise<br />

Best<br />

Practices<br />

TCS’<br />

Assets<br />

TM<br />

Global Networked Delivery Model Experience Certainty<br />

Performance Levers<br />

Process<br />

Mapping<br />

� Mapping<br />

<strong>Manufacturing</strong><br />

Processes<br />

� Capturing<br />

Emission data<br />

� Recording<br />

Process KPI's<br />

� Capturing<br />

Asset<br />

Performance<br />

Business & Technology<br />

Innovation<br />

Carbon Emissions Management<br />

Emissions Data<br />

Compilation<br />

� Identify and<br />

define data<br />

parameters<br />

� Define rules<br />

for estimating<br />

emission data<br />

Additionally, real-time data is captured for all GHG contributing process parameters – such as in a Steel Industry GHG<br />

is captured for iron making (blast furnace, coke making, sinter making), steel making, hot rolling and cold rolling. The<br />

rigor of the TCS data capturing can be assessed from the fact that data is captured from micro level<br />

process/equipment/PLCs/shop-floor systems of the manufacturing process, for example, in case of blast furnace,<br />

data is captured from direct production process, flaring of gases, electricity and fuel consumed and other such parts<br />

of the process. These are further drilled down to micro level sources. Once the data sources from micro to macro level<br />

are systematically established, TCS helps create real-time role-based visibility of GHG emission drivers.<br />

The screen shots given below(Fig 4-6) show how we can view this information at various levels of the enterprise and<br />

help track the relevant Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). This enables the key stakeholders to monitor progress,<br />

identify opportunities and take decisions .<br />

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<strong>Green</strong>ing for Future - TCS approach for Metals and Mining Industry<br />

Compliance<br />

Requirements<br />

� Study impact<br />

of compliance<br />

requirements<br />

� Validate<br />

emission data<br />

set<br />

� Assign<br />

emission<br />

allowances to<br />

individual<br />

assets<br />

Define Analyze Verify<br />

Value Drivers<br />

Process Excellence<br />

(PEM)<br />

Fig 3<br />

Reporting<br />

� Establish<br />

Reporting<br />

requirements<br />

� Define control/<br />

change<br />

requirements<br />

� Build<br />

dashboard<br />

view<br />

Build<br />

Enablers<br />

Quality Management<br />

Systems (iQMS)<br />

Alliances<br />

&<br />

Partnerships<br />

Centers<br />

Of<br />

Excellence<br />

Values<br />

&<br />

Standards


Coal<br />

Iron Ore<br />

Lime stone<br />

Home<br />

Site Compliance<br />

Reference<br />

Measurement Data<br />

Calculations<br />

Reporting<br />

Operation Report<br />

Project Report<br />

Business Report<br />

Audit Report<br />

Administration<br />

Manage Users<br />

Coke<br />

ovens<br />

Sinter<br />

plants<br />

Lime<br />

kilns<br />

20%<br />

Iron making<br />

(Co 91%)<br />

2<br />

Blast<br />

furnace<br />

Steel making<br />

(1%)<br />

Converter<br />

30%<br />

50%<br />

Blast Furnace Coke Plant Sinter Plant<br />

Resource CO2 emissions<br />

Coke 43%<br />

Coal injected into blast furnace 20%<br />

Limestone 5%<br />

Dolomite 2%<br />

Coke oven byproduct A 10%<br />

Coke oven byproduct B 5%<br />

Coke oven gas 5%<br />

Charcoal 10%<br />

Carbon Emission (YTD)- Plan<br />

Project Implementation Status<br />

Fig 4<br />

Real-time visibility – Enterprise Level<br />

Carbon Emission Management System > Enterprise<br />

Refining Smelting Casting<br />

Carbon Emission (YTD)-Actual<br />

<strong>Green</strong> Intelligence for Metal Industry<br />

Hot rolling<br />

(4%)<br />

Hot rolling<br />

mills<br />

Hot<br />

rolling<br />

300 MT<br />

288 MT<br />

85.7%<br />

Fig 5<br />

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<strong>Green</strong>ing for Future - TCS approach for Metals and Mining Industry<br />

Process Source of emission<br />

Blast Furnance Direct Production Process<br />

Source Fueltype<br />

BF D DG Station LDO<br />

Furnace Oil<br />

Cold<br />

rolling<br />

Cold rolling<br />

(3%)<br />

Cold rolling<br />

mills<br />

5%<br />

mTof f CO2 C 2<br />

10%<br />

Steel<br />

products<br />

500<br />

450<br />

400<br />

350<br />

300<br />

250<br />

200<br />

150<br />

100<br />

50<br />

0<br />

Carbon Emissions Trend<br />

Apr<br />

-0 8<br />

May-08<br />

Jun-0 8<br />

Jul-08<br />

Aug-08<br />

Sep-08<br />

Oct-08<br />

Nov-0 8<br />

Dec-08<br />

Jan-0 9<br />

Feb-09<br />

Forecast<br />

Co 2<br />

36.5<br />

emissions (MtCO )<br />

2<br />

16.2<br />

Flaring of Gas<br />

Fuel consumed in Equipments<br />

Electricity consumed in Equipments<br />

Transportation<br />

Office space<br />

Source Co2 emission in metric tons<br />

Skip Car Electricity<br />

Drilling machine Electricity<br />

Mud Gun Electricity<br />

Oxygen Own<br />

Oxygen Purchase<br />

CO<br />

2<br />

emissions<br />

CO2- MT<br />

62.0<br />

28.9 30.2 30.5<br />

Crude steel production (Mt-S)<br />

Co2intensity (tCO 2/t-crude<br />

steel)<br />

2.25<br />

2.15<br />

2.09 2.06<br />

% CO 2 Emissions<br />

9%<br />

10%<br />

66%<br />

Ch 4<br />

emissions<br />

63.1 62.8<br />

1990 2003 2004 2005<br />

Mar-09<br />

N O<br />

2<br />

emissions<br />

Refining<br />

Smelting<br />

Remelting<br />

Hot Rolling<br />

Cold Rolling


Smelting<br />

Process Diagram<br />

Measurement Data<br />

Calculations<br />

New Projects<br />

Project Status<br />

Power Consumption<br />

Fuel Consumption<br />

Anode Consumption<br />

8%<br />

Tonne of CO C O 2 / mT<br />

of Hot metal<br />

7%<br />

Real-time visibility – Process Group Level<br />

Carbon Emission Management System > Enterprise<br />

> Smelting<br />

Specific GHG Emission Emission- - Smelting<br />

3<br />

2.5<br />

2<br />

1.5<br />

1<br />

0.5<br />

0<br />

Apr- May- Jun- Jul- Aug- Sep- Oct- Nov-<br />

08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08<br />

Month<br />

25%<br />

25%<br />

Electricity<br />

Natural Gas<br />

8%<br />

Fuel & Oil<br />

60%<br />

Fig 6<br />

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<strong>Green</strong>ing for Future - TCS approach for Metals and Mining Industry<br />

Plan<br />

Actual<br />

Carbon Anode<br />

Smelting<br />

Smelting<br />

Emission Reduction Project Status-<br />

Smelting<br />

Emission Proportion–Smelting Proportion-Smelting Emission Emission Reduction Reduction Project Project Status Status- Smelting - Smelting<br />

N o.s<br />

60<br />

50<br />

40<br />

30<br />

20<br />

10<br />

0<br />

Apr-<br />

08<br />

Jun-<br />

08<br />

Aug-<br />

08<br />

Oct-<br />

08<br />

Dec-<br />

08<br />

Cumm. Identified<br />

Plan Cumm<br />

Feb-<br />

09


<strong>Green</strong> Logistics and Transportation<br />

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<strong>Green</strong>ing for Future - TCS approach for Metals and Mining Industry<br />

In a scenario of rising energy and fuel costs and tougher regulations on carbon footprint it is important for M&M<br />

industry to focus on greening and leaning of their transportation and logistics (T&L) management services. The<br />

requirement is to understand appropriate optimization and greening techniques for various aspects of T&L such as<br />

fleet management and transport tracking, usage based insurance, toll collection, emissions calculation and other<br />

such aspects (Fig – 7).<br />

TCS offers specific services in:<br />

�Network Planning<br />

�Transport optimization<br />

�Route optimization<br />

�In-plant vehicle scheduling and optimization<br />

�High performance mobile asset management<br />

�Workforce optimization<br />

Integrated <strong>Green</strong> Logistics and Transportation<br />

Mine<br />

� Excavation<br />

Operation<br />

� Extracted ore<br />

transfer to<br />

storage yard<br />

� Extracted ore<br />

dispatch for<br />

processing<br />

Ore<br />

Processing<br />

�<br />

Asset<br />

Management<br />

�High<br />

performance<br />

mobile asset<br />

management<br />

processed<br />

ore to metal<br />

processing/<br />

customer<br />

Metal<br />

Processing<br />

Casting<br />

&<br />

Finishing<br />

Key Logistics operations across the value chain<br />

Dispatch of � Raw material receipt/ transportation<br />

�<br />

- Coke transportation<br />

- Sinter/ Pallet transportation<br />

- Lime stone transportation<br />

- Ore transportation<br />

� Primary metal/ semi finished metal transportation<br />

- Hot metal transportation<br />

- Slabs/ HRC transportation<br />

� Finished product storage and transportation<br />

� Indirect material storage and transportation<br />

Process<br />

Management<br />

People<br />

Management<br />

TCS Focus - <strong>Green</strong> Logistics and Transportation Solution Areas<br />

Network Design<br />

Route optimisation<br />

and scheduling –<br />

Railways, roadways,<br />

shipping lines<br />

Logistics and Transportation<br />

<strong>Green</strong> Enablement Categories<br />

Transport<br />

optimization<br />

Dock management<br />

�<br />

Fig 7<br />

Rail Port Customer<br />

�Workforce<br />

optimization<br />

Technology<br />

Management<br />

�<br />

�Return<br />

load<br />

transportation<br />

Supply chain visibility<br />

and collaboration<br />

technologies<br />

Vehicle Telematics<br />

Disposal


<strong>Green</strong> IT<br />

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<strong>Green</strong>ing for Future - TCS approach for Metals and Mining Industry<br />

An understanding of the <strong>Green</strong> IT challenges (Fig - 8) has prompted TCS <strong>Green</strong> IT consultants to come up with an<br />

Inclusive Approach using a framework that aims at building <strong>Green</strong> Index capabilities for promoting greening of IT<br />

operations to achieve organization’s sustainability goals.<br />

The three key steps are explained below.<br />

Fig 8<br />

STEP 1: Setting up of <strong>Green</strong> Agenda: This forms the basis of establishing opportunities for <strong>Green</strong>ing in the<br />

organization. This step helps to build the action levers which can provide tremendous opportunities for reducing<br />

the year-on-year cost and carbon content along with improving Compliance, CSR, Branding, Asset Utilization and<br />

Governance.<br />

STEP 2: Building of Inclusive approach to <strong>Green</strong>: This looks at the three components – determining the optimization<br />

potential, building of design solution and developing of solution roadmap and implementation (Fig – 9).<br />

STEP 3: Building of <strong>Green</strong> Index: This provides the visibility to a metric driven organization and can be built into the<br />

Balance Score Card (BSC) at different level to reflect the progress (Fig –10).


Key <strong>Green</strong> Metrics<br />

Fig 9<br />

Fig 10<br />

Corporate executives expect both financial and public relations payback, with green being an important<br />

competitive advantage while not serving as a cost burden. These business drivers have led to a considerable buzz<br />

around <strong>Green</strong> IT.<br />

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<strong>Green</strong> Index 3.4<br />

This<br />

Month<br />

Last<br />

Month<br />

Change Total


<strong>Green</strong>ing Benefits<br />

The systematic process conceptualized by TCS can help clients to optimize the energy requirements which can then<br />

be ploughed back into various greening initiatives as new investments. Some of the benefits of greening are listed<br />

below:<br />

�Information sharing<br />

�Empowers organizations with new detailed eco-knowledge and corresponding indicators of performance<br />

�Controls and reduces material waste in manufacturing cycles<br />

�Preserves capital and saves money<br />

�Improves productivity and increases cost savings<br />

�Helps drive and influence corporate behavior both internal and external to ensure sustainability<br />

�Encourages innovation in conducting business internally and interfaces with the rest of the world<br />

�Easy adaptibity to changing rules in environmental regulations and legislation<br />

�Helps realise Triple Bottom Line (TBL)-for measuring an organisation’s commitment and conformance to various<br />

economic, societal, and environmental factors<br />

Conclusion<br />

TCS ‘<strong>Green</strong> <strong>Manufacturing</strong>’ approach to help the Metal Industry align their IT vision with their Organizational Vision.<br />

Thus, helping them achieve their sustainability goals.<br />

By improving the IT infrastructure and carbon emissions that affect people and processes across the organization,<br />

TCS helps our clients use IT to reduce their carbon footprint while increasing efficiency and productivity. The result is<br />

immediate environmental and business benefits, reduced costs and maximized value. A technology driven<br />

transformation of the Metal Industry will shape a powerful and positive future – a future that ensures a competitive,<br />

a secure supply of metals and a sustainable environment.<br />

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Reference<br />

�Kick the habit UN paper<br />

�The need for a global sector approach to CO2 emissions reduction for the steel industry Ian Christmas,<br />

IISI Secretary General<br />

�Make IT <strong>Green</strong> – TCS way<br />

�TCS CorporateSustainability Report, 2007.<br />

http://www.tcs.com/about/corp_responsibility/Documents/TCS_Corporate%20_Sustainability_Report_2007<br />

_Fi nal.pdf<br />

�ISO 14000 Essentials. International Organization for Standardization.<br />

http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_14000_essentials<br />

�The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) <strong>Green</strong> Building Rating System. U.S. <strong>Green</strong><br />

Building Council.<br />

http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=222<br />

�ENERGY STAR for Computers. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.<br />

http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=find_a_product.showProductGroup&pgw_code=CO<br />

�Product and Supply Chain Standard. The <strong>Green</strong>house Gas Protocol Initiative.<br />

http://www.ghgprotocol.org/standards/product-and-supply-chain-standard/<br />

�B. Sood, The CIO’s Role in Enterprise-wide Environmental Responsibility, Gartner Briefing, Mumbai, July 2008<br />

�State of green business 2008 - Joel Makower from www.greenbiz.com<br />

�<strong>Green</strong> IT a Natural Fit for Enterprise Executives, IDC Press Release, October 2007.<br />

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS20932407<br />

�The <strong>Green</strong>house Gas Protocol Initiative. http://www.ghgprotocol.org/<br />

�J. G. Koomey, Estimating Total Power Consumption by Servers in the U.S. and the World, February 2007.<br />

http://enterprise.amd.com/Downloads/svrpwrusecompletefinal.pdf<br />

�T. Schudi et al. High Performance Data Centers: A Research Roadmap. Lawrence Berkeley National<br />

Laboratory. http://hightech.lbl.gov/documents/DataCenters_Roadmap_Final.pdf<br />

�Data Centers: Annotated Bibliography.<br />

http://hightech.lbl.gov/dc-bibliography.html<br />

�Manufacturer’s Association for Information Technology, 2008.<br />

http://www.business--standard.com/india/storypage.php?tp=on&autono=42371<br />

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