Energy Efficiency is a broad effort by CSTEP to provide the intelligence needed for lowering energy intensity of industrial processes, making them more efficient and productive. There are currently several initiatives underway in the Energy Efficiency Program which are driven by the National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency under the Prime Minister’s National Action Plan for Climate Change.

Ensuring the long-term usability of engineering informatics (EI) artifacts is a challenge, particularly for products with longer life-cycles than the computing hardware and software used for their design and manufacture. Addressing this challenge requires characterizing the nature of EI, defining metrics for EI sustainability, and developing methods for long-term EI curation. In this paper we highlight various issues related to long-term archival of EI and describe the work towards methods and metrics for sustaining EI.

An Indo-US Workshop on Designing Sustainable Products, Services and Manufacturing Systems was organized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and supported by the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum. CSTEP researchers contributed a paper on 'Sustainability Analysis and Energy Footprint based Design in the Product Lifecycle' which was presented by Dr.S.S. Krishnan.