We are committed to sustainability strategies of refurbishing, remote operations, and recycling.
Sustainability
As a technology leader, we actively support driving sustainability across all aspects of our business – from manufacturing to deployment, support, and maintenance. We are also committed to recycling nearly 100% of components at the end of the useful life of the LocusBots.
The typical lifespan for a LocusBot would be typically five to seven years, given technology evolution. However, with our refurbishing processes, the life span of our LocusBots extends well beyond this period.
One key aspect of our company is our Robots as a Service (RaaS) model. Since customers do not own the LocusBots, we maintain the robots in the field sustainably. When contracts change or grow, we can quickly refurbish, repurpose, and redeploy robots to new facilities or regions. No robots go to waste.
The four major components in the LocusBots are ABS plastic, metal casings, batteries, printed circuit boards, and related electronics. Because the useful life of each component varies, we work hard to refurbish and repair components vs. replacing them. Recycling is only done when we are unable to refurbish or repurpose a component or part.
Reliability
Locus Robotics Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) program maintains current available business operations and facilitates the efficient restoration of business operations due to a large-scale disruption. The BCDR program helps ensure critical business functions continuously operate and support customer services without disruption.
The BCDR program includes the main three components, as well as annual program testing, including the coordination and monitoring of restoration efforts when activated.
- Business Continuity Plan – The BCP includes a comprehensive set of instructions and tasks that must be completed upon an impactful business disruption. The BCP identifies key stakeholders and their responsibilities, defines communication and documentation requirements, and details plan activation and deactivation steps and authorities.
- Business Impact Analysis –The BIA evaluates the critical business functions and applications that support business operations and customer services.
- Disaster Recovery Plans – For each critical business function identified in the BIA, product and service teams maintain a disaster recovery plan that lists, in order, the technical processes required to bring business operations back into a fully operational state. The two core processes involved in maintaining a recoverable operational environment are backups and redundancy.