Volvo Cars. Procurement will keep Polestar informed of the overall progress of the work by PPT (Procurement Plant Team) in relevant plant meetings.
Volvo Cars. The Volvo production plant in Skövde has initiated a project called Energy 2000 that consists of an information campaign called “Stop Needless” and other energy saving activities in the production process. The campaign that runs from October 1, 2000 until December 2001 involves all employees. A study carried out by the company calculated that unnecessary energy use costs 190.000 Euros annually. This energy can be saved if “Stop Needless” runs successfully. Other energy saving areas are losses from machines and robots in standby position equivalent to approximately 405.000 Euros and approximately 70.000 Euros from compressed air. Volvo Skövde produced a leaflet called “Stop Needless”. The leaflet shows by examples how the employees can save energy in their daily working life but it also shows how big the saving is in monetary terms. Example for leaking compressed air: “Do you know that one single hole with five millimetres diameter in a compression-pipeline costs 1200 Euro per year! Our energy costs from leaking compression amount to 30000 Euro annually in unnecessary leakage. We can Stop Needless by: …”. Several solutions are presented together with an “ emergency call” phone number so detected leakage quickly can be reported to responsible person. Other energy saving areas mentioned in the leaflet are lighting, open doors, standby losses both in the office and in the process and water consumption. There is also a presentation of how the energy issues are treated in the company, energy saving goals and on going projects. All employees received a presentation of the campaign and of the EKO-Energi programme. The leaflet has a coupon on which the employees can write ideas on how to save energy and send it to the project office. The good ideas are awarded monthly with free lunches or energy efficient bulbs. Twenty per cent of the energy savings will go back to the employees in some kind of award. The “Needless” site on Intranet, xxxx://xxxxxx.xxxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xx can be visited by all employees. They can find information about who the winner of the month is, proposed solutions and other interesting issues. The aim of this project is to increase the employees’ energy awareness and change their behaviour. Volvo Cars in Skövde joined the EKO-Energi programme in 1998. Since then their energy production per produced engine has been reduced by 9 per cent. Their goal is to reduce the energy consumption per produced engine by another 8 per cent by year 2003 compared to ...
