Rold was the beneficiary of the training course “Innovation of products and processes for sustainability”, organized in collaboration with “Fondazione Politecnico di Milano”. It was an important step in Rold’s path towards sustainability, favoring cross-contamination between the offices and the R-Lab, R&D, Digital, Quality and Regulations departments. The course, held by professors of the Politecnico di Milano and business experts, has involved 21 participants selected from among Rold collaborators, for a duration of 40 training hours per participant. It was proposed to support a systematic approach to the issue of “sustainability”, thus starting from an analysis of the various aspects of environmental impact in the production process and in the entire life cycle of the product, in particular in relation to energy consumption and water consumption, to then focus on more specific issues such as the Life Cycle Assessment, intellectual property, taxonomies for the exploration of green technologies, new materials and appliance design. The detailed analysis of the production process, which was conducted on one of Rold core products taken as a reference for the exercises of the course, was preparatory to parallel development of the activities related to the SmartFab 2030 project, funded by the Lombardy Region. “This is in line with the approach that has always characterized Rold activities – the company explains –. In fact, as early as 2015, our company has laid the foundations for the digital transformation process in a 4.0 perspective thanks to the creation of an IoT platform, called Rold SmartFab, capable of monitoring the progress of production in real time of machinery with the goal of guaranteeing excellent factory performance. Platform that, used day by day, has allowed the production site of Cerro Maggiore (Milan) to enter the restricted circle of ‘Lighthouses Plant’ outlined by the World Economic Forum, and which we now want to offer to the market as well. Rold is in fact the only 100% Italian SME included in the Global Lighthouse Network of Advanced Manufacturers that stand out for the application of technologies typical of Industry 4.0 in terms of operations and optimization of production processes, including the reduction of environmental impacts”.
