Processes and Products
Enterprises and especially SMEs are not aware of their resource utilization, real costs of non- product outputs and the related (cost) reduction potential as well as means to improve it.
PRESOURCE develops the “EDIT Value” tool (Eco-innovation Diagnosis and Implementation Tool for Increasing the Enterprise Value) to enable SMEs in the production sector to identify and exploit within their own organization potentials for increasing the resource efficiency of the production process and products – for the benefit of economy and environment. The tool is half way through the development phase and shall be launched by the end of 2013. It will guide SMEs through a step by step process for identification and exploitation of potentials for increasing their resource efficiency.
An integrated framework for use or RE tools
The "EDIT Value" tool works in three steps. First, potentials for improving Resource Efficiency and sustainability within a business is investigated. This involves a stakeholders analysis, an analysis of material and energy inputs / outputs, as well as in as analysis of product life cycle (step 1). After the identification of aspects, appropriate intervention tools are presented (step 2) and the feasibility of the identified tools is assessed (step 3).
