Office CO2 Emissions Reduction Activities
While we have created environmental protection programs and have optimized office air conditioner temperature settings and reduced power consumption by lighting and OA equipment, for fiscal 2007 we focused on and strove for "Energy saving PC power supply settings" as an activity that every one of our employees could become involved in.
Activity Status at Fujitsu
We are working to achieve energy saving using power supply control settings, such as turning off the monitor when the user is away from their desk and AC adaptors that turn off in the standby state. In these efforts, at the same time as calling on all employees to participate, we investigated the effects of PC energy saving efforts with the participation of about 900 employees at the sales division at company headquarters (Shiodome area), the SE division at Solution Square (Kamata), and the Corporate Environmental Aff airs Unit.
At the same time we also looked into problems arising from using energy saving settings for sales and business PCs, and we switched to energy saving settings for the business PCs for which problems do not occur. When we verified the results of these efforts, we saw a reduction in power consumption from OA equipment compared to earlier usage patterns. Based on these results, we now provide only PCs for which the energy saving options have been set in advance for company-internal business PCs.
System Defender Box Energy Saving Activity
At the Fujitsu FSAS Central Headquarters, we focused on turning PCs off at night, installed a unique Fujitsu support tool, System Defender Box (SDB*1) at 13 locations, and implemented PC operation-time management from January through June in 2007. As a result, we found that we were able to reduce CO2 emissions by about 4 tons annually.
Also, we increased our company-internal awareness of power saving by applying ECO yellow card stickers to equipment whose power is left on all the time and by providing detailed logs to group managers. Six months after we started measurement, we found that we had established the habit of turning off the power in OA equipment within the company.
Based on these results, we plan to deploy these efforts to the whole company at Fujitsu FSAS. This activity is also being promoted as a Qfinity activity.
(*1)System Defender Box (SDB)
This is a Fujitsu-developed automatic concentration tool that is used by IT resource management services. It is used by hardware products such as servers and PCs that are connected to a network and collects log and configuration information 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This allows notification by email when a problem occurs or when there is a change to IT infrastructure, such as the operating states or load conditions of the various hardware.
