ifu Hamburg GmbH: e!Sankey News

IFU Hamburg Named Gartner “Cool Vendor” for Green IT and Sustainability 2012

Mon, 07 May 2012 10:45:00 +0200

IFU offers tools to model, analyze and optimize material, energy and cash flows in a production system, combined with its use of visualizations utilizing Sankey. The solutions are of interest to any manufacturer that wants to address spiraling raw material and energy costs by addressing ecological and efficiency considerations in combination. Gartner defines a Cool Vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are innovative, have an impact and are intriguing. Reference: Gartner, Inc., Cool Vendors in Green IT and Sustainability, 2012, Simon Mingay, Stephen Stokes, April 26, 2012.

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ifu Hamburg calculates Carbon Footprint on behalf of EWE Energy

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:27:00 +0100

According to the signs of the time the German company for woodwork "Janssen Holzbau GmbH" believes in the economic and ecologic advantages of sustainability. Thus, the carbon footprint of a roof construction has been calculated with the focus on possible improvements for the energy management. The EWE Energie AG initiated this project as they have enlarged their portfolio by several energy analysis services. The ifu Hamburg GmbH calculated the carbon footprint according to PAS 2050 Standard and the more general guidelines of ISO 14040, ISO 14044 for Life Cycle Assessment. The result demonstrates the ecologic advantage of wood as a building material. But furthermore it is proof for the measurements Holzbau Janssen had already implemented to improve its carbon balance, e. g. usage of climate neutral, eco-friendly electricity, before the current calculation was done. Click here for an article by the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (in German).

What comes into your mind when you hear "Know the Flow"?

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:14:00 +0100

Topics like life cycle analysis, sustainability, carbon emissions are not only important to us because of our software solutions. These topics are burning issues to us in general. In order to deal with the current questions we have launched our blog "Know the Flow". With our partners form all over the world we take the international perspective, report from different regions with their specific challenges in environment and economy. But exciting topics are enriched by dialogue. Thus, we would like to invite you, to discuss with us. To the Blog!

More Performance for Lifecycle Analysis and Process Modeling

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:48:00 +0100

A new version of the software Umberto is available from now on. Improvement and extension are the two pillars for more performance within Life Cycle Assessment , Eco Efficiency Analysis or Eco Profiling. Besides an even faster recall of datasets by the software and the development of more comprehensive visualization features, meaningful assessment of the environmental impact is enabled by overall more than 650 LCI datasets new in Umberto (“ELCD in Umberto 5.6” und “NREL in Umberto 5.6”).

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The right information quick and clear

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:54:00 +0200

Perhaps you have already noticed the changes on our web pages. We have given us a new design. But with our relaunch we mainly focussed on more usability to enable as a user to find the right information even quicker. An ideal supply of information you can also ensure by subscribing to our rss feeds. We would like to draw your attention to all of our offered feeds: http://www.ifu.com/de/rss.xml http://www.umberto.de/de/rss.xml http://www.carbonfootprint-software.de/de/rss.xml http://www.e-sankey.com/de/rss.xml Provide yourself with important information on sustainable management further on.

e!Sankey 3.0 released

Tue, 17 May 2011 10:00:00 +0200

We released e!Sankey 3.0 and 3.0 pro today. The new versions are available for download from our servers as of now. Thanks to the numerous new features of e!Sankey 3.0, it is even easier and faster to create complex and attractive Sankey diagrams than ever before. The new version includes the following additional Features:

Multi edit of graphical elements
Definition of own unit types
Improved image export
And many more (see full list of features)

The pro-version additionally features an improved interface to Microsoft Excel (Excel LiveLink). You can download a 30-day trial version to explore how well the tool supports your visualization tasks. License keys for the e!Sankey standard version and for the e!Sankey pro version can be purchased through our online shop. Registered users of e!Sankey 1.x or e!Sankey 2.x can get an update/upgrade to version 3.0 at a reduced price. All licensees will receive a voucher by e-mail automatically. If you have not yet received your voucher, please send a short e-mail to the e!Sankey Sales Team.