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PennEngineering's Journey Towards Carbon Neutrality with SINAI Technologies

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Technology Category	Functional Applications - Inventory Management Systems Functional Applications - Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
Applicable Industries	Automotive Electronics
Applicable Functions	Facility Management Warehouse & Inventory Management
Use Cases	Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems Inventory Management
Services	System Integration
Challenge	PennEngineering, a technology and manufacturing firm, has been providing fastening solutions for various industries since 1942. The company has a strong focus on environmental responsibility and aims to promote carbon-neutral practices. Recently, PennEngineering has been receiving requests from their customers to share their scope 1 and scope 2 emissions to aid in value chain emissions tracking and enable decarbonization. To respond to these requests and position the company as a leader in sustainability, PennEngineering decided to adopt a corporate-wide process to collect and calculate scope 1 and scope 2 GHG emissions across all manufacturing and technical facilities in the United States, Europe, and Asia. However, a major challenge was that most of PennEngineering’s global manufacturing facilities had never calculated or tracked GHG emissions. To ensure appropriate carbon accounting methodologies aligned with global standards were employed, PennEngineering reached out to SINAI to guide the company through the process of developing an inventory, in a fashion that could be repeatable annually for the business. Read More
About Customer	PennEngineering is a technology and manufacturing firm that has been providing fastening solutions for compact electronics, automotive electronics, data, telecom and more since 1942. The PennEngineering portfolio includes PEM®, PROFIL®, HEYCO® PennAuto® and other leading brands. An important area of focus for PennEngineering is environmental responsibility. The company aims to promote carbon neutral practices by employing energy efficiency and improvement initiatives, reducing Scope 2 emissions through renewable power opportunities, and better waste management and water consumption practices. Recently, the company has begun to receive requests from their customers to share their scope 1 and scope 2 emissions to aid in value chain emissions tracking and enable decarbonization. Read More
Solution	SINAI’s Customer Success and Climate Change Experts took the lead in developing customized data collection templates for PennEngineering to gather scope 1 and scope 2 activity data from global operations. SINAI worked with PennEngineering to obtain a deep understanding of their manufacturing and technical facilities and establish the boundary for the company’s emissions. All scope 1 and scope 2 data was identified, gathered, and inputted into SINAI’s system in only 6 weeks. SINAI also led PennEngineering through GHG Protocol calculation methodologies, the appropriate global standards for GHG calculations, and demonstrated how the collected activity data was going to be used in the SINAI system to calculate the companies emissions. With all required calculation methodologies embedded in SINAI’s software, once activity data was inputted, scope 1 and scope 2 GHG calculations were automated and GHG results were instantly able to be viewed by PennEngineering’s team. All methodologies and calculations were set up in a manner so that emissions calculations could be repeated in the future as new activity data was gathered. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Functional Applications - Inventory Management Systems

Functional Applications - Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)

Applicable Industries

Automotive

Electronics

Applicable Functions

Facility Management

Warehouse & Inventory Management

Use Cases

Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems

Inventory Management

Services

System Integration

Challenge

PennEngineering, a technology and manufacturing firm, has been providing fastening solutions for various industries since 1942. The company has a strong focus on environmental responsibility and aims to promote carbon-neutral practices. Recently, PennEngineering has been receiving requests from their customers to share their scope 1 and scope 2 emissions to aid in value chain emissions tracking and enable decarbonization. To respond to these requests and position the company as a leader in sustainability, PennEngineering decided to adopt a corporate-wide process to collect and calculate scope 1 and scope 2 GHG emissions across all manufacturing and technical facilities in the United States, Europe, and Asia. However, a major challenge was that most of PennEngineering’s global manufacturing facilities had never calculated or tracked GHG emissions. To ensure appropriate carbon accounting methodologies aligned with global standards were employed, PennEngineering reached out to SINAI to guide the company through the process of developing an inventory, in a fashion that could be repeatable annually for the business.

About Customer

PennEngineering is a technology and manufacturing firm that has been providing fastening solutions for compact electronics, automotive electronics, data, telecom and more since 1942. The PennEngineering portfolio includes PEM®, PROFIL®, HEYCO® PennAuto® and other leading brands. An important area of focus for PennEngineering is environmental responsibility. The company aims to promote carbon neutral practices by employing energy efficiency and improvement initiatives, reducing Scope 2 emissions through renewable power opportunities, and better waste management and water consumption practices. Recently, the company has begun to receive requests from their customers to share their scope 1 and scope 2 emissions to aid in value chain emissions tracking and enable decarbonization.

Solution

SINAI’s Customer Success and Climate Change Experts took the lead in developing customized data collection templates for PennEngineering to gather scope 1 and scope 2 activity data from global operations. SINAI worked with PennEngineering to obtain a deep understanding of their manufacturing and technical facilities and establish the boundary for the company’s emissions. All scope 1 and scope 2 data was identified, gathered, and inputted into SINAI’s system in only 6 weeks. SINAI also led PennEngineering through GHG Protocol calculation methodologies, the appropriate global standards for GHG calculations, and demonstrated how the collected activity data was going to be used in the SINAI system to calculate the companies emissions. With all required calculation methodologies embedded in SINAI’s software, once activity data was inputted, scope 1 and scope 2 GHG calculations were automated and GHG results were instantly able to be viewed by PennEngineering’s team. All methodologies and calculations were set up in a manner so that emissions calculations could be repeated in the future as new activity data was gathered.

Impact #1	The use of SINAI Technologies allowed PennEngineering to progress from having no GHG inventory to having a complete, repeatable, and auditable scope 1 and scope 2 GHG inventory across all operations in only 6 weeks. This quick turnaround time enabled PennEngineering to promptly respond to their customer requests with confidence in the data they were disclosing. Furthermore, the manner in which the company’s GHG calculations were set up in SINAI now allows PennEngineering to continuously calculate and monitor their carbon emissions for years to come. In the future, the client is looking forward to working with SINAI to build their first ever scope 3 GHG inventory.

Impact #1

The use of SINAI Technologies allowed PennEngineering to progress from having no GHG inventory to having a complete, repeatable, and auditable scope 1 and scope 2 GHG inventory across all operations in only 6 weeks. This quick turnaround time enabled PennEngineering to promptly respond to their customer requests with confidence in the data they were disclosing. Furthermore, the manner in which the company’s GHG calculations were set up in SINAI now allows PennEngineering to continuously calculate and monitor their carbon emissions for years to come. In the future, the client is looking forward to working with SINAI to build their first ever scope 3 GHG inventory.

Benefit #1	Developed a complete, repeatable, and auditable scope 1 and scope 2 GHG inventory across all operations in only 6 weeks.
Benefit #2	Automated scope 1 and scope 2 GHG calculations and GHG results were instantly viewable by PennEngineering’s team.
Benefit #3	Set up methodologies and calculations in a manner so that emissions calculations could be repeated in the future as new activity data was gathered.

Benefit #1

Developed a complete, repeatable, and auditable scope 1 and scope 2 GHG inventory across all operations in only 6 weeks.

Benefit #2

Automated scope 1 and scope 2 GHG calculations and GHG results were instantly viewable by PennEngineering’s team.

Benefit #3

Set up methodologies and calculations in a manner so that emissions calculations could be repeated in the future as new activity data was gathered.

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PennEngineering's Journey Towards Carbon Neutrality with SINAI Technologies

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