Green Innovation Design

Design philosophy for green products

As international awareness of Net-Zero rises, most major brands are committed to promoting energy conservation and carbon reduction and reducing environmental pollution. Ability develops green products that not only meet customer standards and international regulatory trends, but also reduce environmental impact. Our green product design concept is mainly based on four design aspects.

Product recycling design

Design for product recycling : referring to the EU regulations and customers' requirements, Ability defined the minimum allowance standard for the "recovery rate" and "reuse and recycling rate." These rates were calculate based on the gross weight of materials provided by the suppliers upon the incoming acceptance of materials, and weight consumed during the manufacturing process. In the future, we will continue to improve the reuse, recycling and recovery ratio.

Use green materials

Use of green materials: All materials used are confirmed to be compliant with the RoHS requirements of the EU upon the acceptance of materials. Apart from otherwise stated by the EU, products sold to different countries shall comply with the substance control regulations of the importing country. If customers otherwise set substance prohibition requirements, Ability is committed to follow those additional customer requirements.

Energy-saving and carbon dioxide reduction policy

Energy-saving and carbon dioxide reduction policy: Targets for our products are set to either reduce 5% of power consumption, or increase their operating lifetime of by 5%

Introduce green packaging materials

Use of green packaging materials: The procurement adopts recyclable or recycled and reproduced packaging materials on a continuous and prudent basis

Design sustainability strategy

The beginning of a product begins with R&D and design. Under the existing policies, corresponding planning is done in the early stages of product design. From the selection of important parts, product specifications and related materials, production planning of subsequent production lines, customer maintenance and subsequent overall warranty maintenance and scrapping, the concept of sustainability is introduced, and the requirements such as shortening of testing hours, selection of halogen-free materials, environmentally friendly materials, and selection of recycled materials are included in the design guidelines at the early stage of product design. In addition to responding to the company's overall strategy, it can also reduce the risk of project delays caused by subsequent material changes.

Plan	Goal	Implement in 2024
Reduce effects of the course of production on the environment: Include subsequent assembly, testing,and other relevant details in the design examinations at the initial designing period to shorten production working hours and testing hours so to reduce the overall energy waste and combine test stations and improve test efficiency through hardware designs and integration to achieve overall testing time reduction.	Reduce working hours by 5% each year.	The testing work hours in the post-development stage were reduced by 29.03%, and the manpower was reduced by 11.24%. For assembly lines, site investment is reduced and labor hours are reduced by 3.88%
Regarding product designs and the surface processing(coating/printing)of appearance,we use environmental materials and technologies to reduce the possibility of generating waste materials and pollutants.non-hazardous substances are selected for the overall materials to fulfill the green material standards.	Achieve 90% or higher by 2025 for each machine type for the implementation of halogen-free products. Achieve 70% or higher for introducing VOC coating standards by 2030.	97.89% halogen-free mechanical components Packing materials are 99.18% halogen-free. Imaging system products have all adopted halogen-free packaging materials
For hardware circuits, improve the overall power circuit, minimize consumption power and work with software for optimization to produce better power-saving products. Utilize minimum parts to achieve the optimum time of use while examining the power consumption and overall time of use/idle time of products on a yearly basis to duly comply with energy-saving specifications.	Reduce power consumption by 5% or improve the time of use of products by 5% by 2025. Allow all products to fulfill energy efficacy specifications (BC/NRCAN/ErP) by 2030.	R&D product energy efficiency specifications California battery charging system energy efficiency requirement (BC) reaches 100% Canadian energy efficiency label (NRCAN) reaches 100% EU Energy Related Products Directive (ErP) reaches 100%
Carry out plastic reduction designs for mechanisms and packaging materials and adopt environmental materials as the first choice for designs. At present, we have started to introduce plastic bag-free packaging designs for machine types of specific customers.	Start implementing plastic reduction actions in 2023, with the goal of reducing the use of plastic bags in 2024 and 2025. Introduce the laser engraving process to reduce the use of specification labels. Starting from 2023, it will be promoted to products and customers, with the goal of adding one model every year	In 2024, only 11 models will use plastic packaging, and the rest have achieved the goal of packaging without using plastic bags. In 2024, 9 models will have introduced the laser engraving process to reduce the use of specification labels.