Integrating climate change actions with OEE and SOX compliance

There is an urgent need for corporations to take positive climate change actions to reduce the earth's carbon footprint. On the other hand, growing demands, high expectations of customers for advanced product functionalities and reliability have led to establishing large scale manufacturing plants with complex and capital intensive automated equipments which negatively impact climate change. Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) to track and improve such plants' efficiencies is prudent for corporate management. Further, the financial regulations imposed by the US government call for corporations to achieve Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance. Therefore, this research presents a systems design to integrate implementation and monitoring of positive climate change actions concurrently with OEE monitoring and adherence to SOX compliance requirements.