Sustainability

ORGANISATIONAL LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (O-LCA)

DYCTA Environment is a dynamic environmental sustainability assessment instrument developed by the Gresmalt Group in collaboration with the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and the University Rey Juan Carlos of Madrid as part of the project co-funded by the European Commission LIFE Force of the Future.​

DYCTA Environment is based on the LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) methodology, an analytical system for the quantitative assessment of environmental impacts of a product or of an organisation (O-LCA, Organisational Life Cycle Assessment). The reference point for the LCA methodology is contained in the standards ISO 14040 and 14044 which define the phases to conduct the environmental impact assessment. ​

The LCA also adopts the approach of the life cycle (Life Cycle Thinking), considering all the phases of the life of a product, possibly “from the cradle to the grave”, in other words from the system of procurement of the raw materials to the end of the product’s life.

DYCTA Environment uses the digital technologies of Industry 4.0, collecting the factory data in real time: consumption, raw materials, chemical compounds, electricity, gas, water and packaging, emissions into the atmosphere and the production of scrap and waste. The information is collected through a network of line sensors and meters connected via the MES (Manufacturing Execution System) production control system to the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) management system. The ERP communicates with the DYCTA Environment using a Business Intelligence (BI) system to conduct the environmental impact dynamic assessment.

ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIAL LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (SO-LCA) 

DYCTA Social is a dynamic social sustainability assessment instrument developed by the Gresmalt Group in collaboration with the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and the University Rey Juan Carlos of Madrid as part of the project co-funded by the European Commission LIFE Force of the Future.​

DYCTA Social is based on the S-LCA (Social Life Cycle Assessment) methodology, a technique developed with the approach of the Life Cycle Thinking (LCT), which offers a holistic assessment of the impacts and of the social influences created in the operational environment of an organisation that products and markets a product.

The S-LCA defines the ways in which to map and involve the main stakeholders and also provides indications on how the stakeholders involved in the process can make a positive and negative impact on the methodology and follow the guidelines supplied by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).

DYCTA Social uses the technological potential of Industry 4.0 to collect both social data strictly related to the production processes as well as business data. The production data is transmitted to the ERP through Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) which interfaces the factory with the management system. Similarly, the other company data is sent to the ERP using a Business Base with functions similar to the MES but designed exclusively to collect non-production information. Finally, a Business Intelligence (BI) system connects the ERP with the SO-LCA to perform the social impact dynamic assessment.

ORGANIZATIONAL ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT (O-ESA)

DYCTA Economic is a dynamic economic sustainability assessment instrument developed by the Gresmalt Group in collaboration with the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and the University Rey Juan Carlos of Madrid as part of the project co-funded by the European Commission LIFE Force of the Future.​

DYCTA Economic is based on the calculation system developed in the last ISO sustainability standard (ISO 17889-1:2021) for the ceramic tiles sector.  The aim of DYCTA Economic is to provide an economic sustainability scoring system starting from the main economic data of a company: the balance sheet data.

DYCTA Economic assesses the economic sustainability with reference to four categories of economic impact: competitiveness, resilience, agility and financial stability.  Using balance sheet indicators and indices, DYCTA Economic assigns a scoring to each category.  The average of all the scores forms the index of economic sustainability of the company.

DYCTA Economic uses the technological potential of Industry 4.0 to collect both economic data strictly related to the production processes as well as business data.  The production data is transmitted to the ERP through Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) which interfaces the factory with the management system.   Instead the balance sheet data is collected yearly on the ERP.  The collected data is processed by a Business Intelligence system that connects the ERP with DYCTA.