New Indicator for the azbil Group’s Environment and Energy SDG
- Making Contributions that Lead “In Series” to a Sustainable Society -
TOKYO, May 10, 2024: Azbil Corporation (Tokyo Stock Exchange code 6845) has announced a new quantitative indicator related to the creation and provision of eco-friendly products and services, an objective of the azbil Group’s Environment and Energy SDG. This new indicator is the number of skilled professionals*1 available to support sustainable services*2 provided by the azbil Group; our target is to increase this to a total of 1,800*3—triple the number in FY2021.
In advancing sustainability management, aimed at realizing a sustainable society, the azbil Group has identified materiality as ten material issues across five areas to be tackled over the long term. For this purpose, we have established four Essential Goals of the azbil Group for SDGs; Environment and Energy is one of these. Through our initiatives to achieve the SDGs, we aim to realize value creation that only the azbil Group can offer, not only in business but also in human resource development and growth, and to contribute “in series” to a sustainable society. And to make steady progress with these initiatives, we have established specific indicators for each goal; these are reviewed every year, and new ones added as required.
The focus of this new indicator (skilled professionals) is developing human resources to support the field engineering services that contribute to the realization of a sustainable society. It thus helps us to achieve, through our automation technologies, productivity improvements and stable operations at customers’ sites. We will also strive to provide environmentally friendly products and services in all three of the azbil Group’s environmental priority areas (decarbonization, resource recycling, and biodiversity conservation)
Essential Goal: Environment and Energy
Preserving the Earth’s environment and solving energy-related problems through cooperative creation
Target
Creation and provision of eco-friendly products and services
- Increase the number of skilled professionals for supporting sustainable services provided by the azbil Group to a total of 1,800—triple the number in FY2021
The skilled professionals referred to by the new indicator are employees who have been verified by an in-house qualification system as possessing the technical knowledge, expertise, and experience specific to a department; it is one of three such qualifications. We aim to create value unique to the azbil Group by having these skilled professionals provide field engineering services at customers’ sites to ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations, and to resolve issues in the three environmental priority areas.
*1We have set up an in-house qualification system for the following staff with specialized skills considered vital for realizing solutions to issues in our three environmental priority areas:
• Professionals licensed for network services, such as remote maintenance of large-scale buildings,
energy management, and cloud services
•Certified professionals in the fields of advanced plant/factory control, energy-saving solution
technologies, and valve maintenance
*2As well as contributing, through our automation technologies, to productivity improvements and stable operations at our customers’ sites, we offer field engineering services that can contribute to the realization of a sustainable society by solving environmental challenges that face our customers and society in all three of the azbil Group’s environmental priority areas (decarbonization, resource recycling, and biodiversity conservation).
*3The total number of qualified personnel includes cases where an individual employee has acquired multiple professional skills (counted separately for this purpose) in the process of mastering new technologies for our field engineering service.
* Posted information is accurate as of the date of announcement.