Pictured: Marco Righi, CEO of Flash Battery
Based in Sant’Ilario d’Enza (RE), Italy, Flash Battery has been awarded the Il Sore 24 Ore 'Sustainable Enterprise Award' and for the fifth time, the Deloitte Best Managed Company.
The sustainability award was organised in collaboration with the Vatican and the Patronage of the Pontifical Academy for Life while the Deloitte award for strategy and innovation was sponsored by Deloitte Private alongside ALTIS Graduate School of Sustainable Management of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, ELITE-Euronext Group and the Piccola Industria (small industry) branch of the Confindustria industrial federation.
The combination of these two awards recognises two specific missions of Flash Battery.
"The first assessed the range of IT innovations and technologies that companies have developed and implemented to generate positive impacts and outcomes to improve the environment, economy and society in general starting from 2020, first as a response to Covid and then to the escalation of the international situation with the war in Ukraine, rising costs and raw material shortages," said Marco Righi, CEO of Flash Battery.
"In this case,” continued Righi, “the patent we obtained for our proprietary BMS, the Flash Balancing System, was recognised, and specifically the innovation introduced with the latest version of our remote control portal, Flash Data Center; an innovation that particularly impressed the judging panel due to that fact that the implementation of the latest machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms allows the continuous and automatic remote monitoring of our more than 18,000 batteries installed in 54 countries, combining monitoring with the elimination of any anomalies as they arise, enabling self-diagnostics, predictive maintenance and the minimisation of maintenance costs."
"A recognition,” observed Righi, “that is particularly significant to us, because it relates to a truly smart system built entirely by our software department to guarantee users of our batteries absolute autonomy in the management of their industrial vehicles and machinery, thereby reducing both the environmental impacts and costs that downtime and physical transfers also generate.
"At the same time, we are also very pleased to have received the Deloitte Best Managed Company Award, above all because it explicitly recognises the value of the skills of our personnel, a corporate culture where sustainability is a key pillar, and a capacity for innovation that underlies the strong growth seen in recent years."
