PHILIPS Speech Processing
Statement: Gerhard Podhradsky (Development Director)
PHILIPS is in the inimitable position to combine the history of our brand with the challenge to improve people quality of life. Sustainable product development is a central element for the implementation. In the future only those companies will succeed which will manage to integrate sustainability in their value chain.
The company
PHILIPS Speech Processing has more than 50 years of experience in the professional market of dictation devices. The headquarter as well as the development and the production are located at the High Tech Campus Vienna. The organisation in Vienna is certified according ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standard. Dedicated sales clusters located in every continent ensure that the customer base get the best commercial and technical support. As a globally acting company PHILIPS has defined a public Sustainability Policy and has initiated a lot of activities to improve the portfolio.
Environmental policy at PHILIPS
The Product
The Digital Pocket Memo® 9600/9620 is a handy, powerful and efficient dictation device, comfortably to operate and offering latest recording technology with the 4-position switch. With the exchangeable Multimedia or SD Cards, you have virtually unlimited recording time. Its ten user definable keywords allow easy file organization and archiving.
Voice files can be easily and quickly downloaded directly to your PC via a USB cable via workflow management software for professional transcription or speech regognition.
Environmental Product Declararation (pdf)Kontakt: Gerhard Podhradsky, PHILIPS Speech Processing, Email: gerhard.podhradsky@philips.com

Ecodesign comment
At the product development stage Philips focused mainly on the energy demand at use. Improvements like: effizient energymanagement, reducing material input, new disply technology, etc. ended up in more than 80% CO2 reductions.
This has been realized though applying the following strategies: