With just about everyone talking about sustainability, Santa is under pressure. How hard can it be? Surely, he can improve performance, reduce his carbon footprint, and be back home with his feet up before sunrise?
With the growing demand for toys pushing his existing production facility to the maximum, Santa is busy building a new and much larger factory that will churn out millions of toys each day. He’s already decided to install a continuous emissions monitoring system to help him monitor emissions coming out of chimneys at his manufacturing plant.
He is also making the switch to renewables but needs a reliable back up power supply. He’s set his sights on green hydrogen, and this has prompted an unprecedented spree on the best tools for the job.
Santa is no stranger to batteries. After all, they’re the key ingredient in many of the must-have toys that he makes in their thousands every year. That's why he relies on instrumentation, analyzers, force measurement and digital solutions to speed up the production of batteries. He’s so excited about developments in electrification and energy storage that will help him to keep his vast toy production and distribution empire running all year round.
The new and much larger factory Santa is building needs a lot of cement, so Santa has also built his own personal cement kiln, which uses alternative fuels to make sure it is as environmentally friendly as possible.
Santa and his elves may be used to living in the North Pole, but they still like to keep themselves toasty warm. Meeting the 24/7/365 heating requirements of Santa’s operation means a reliable boiler is essential. Luckily, Santa is a long-time user of some tried and tested electrical actuators. He’s using them to control the air flow to the boiler for perfect combustion.
Santa is making the switch to digital. He’s realizing that he needs reliable connectivity for his operations. With multiple remote toy-making sites fulfilling some of the orders, he’s using input/output (I/O) modules to stay connected and monitor production.
With most Christmas wish lists arriving by email, the servers at the North Pole are heating up. The servers can get pretty warm, so Santa is stocking up on the latest Ethernet-enabled flow meters to help control cooling water flows. He is also relying on a fancy paperless recorder to make energy calculation and report on energy savings.
With some gifts shipped across the world, Santa is mindful of transportation emissions. He’s happy his cargo ships use emissions analyzers to monitor air quality.