It's a fact that 80% of a product's environmental impact is influenced by decisions made at the design stage (source: Ellen MacArthur Foundation). Sustainability efforts are high on the list of corporate objectives these days and each product in the portfolio has a role to play in order to help the company reduce their overall environmental footprint. In order to properly manage the environmental profile of a product, the designer needs access to information that can help inform design decisions.
Introducing the Dassault Systemes '360 Sustainable Innovation' solution which provides lifecycle assessment (LCA) capabilities in an easy to use and easy to understand format. When integrated with virtual twin technology from the Dassault Systemes 3DEXPERIENCE® platform, designers have full visibility to the environmental profile of the product, from materials to manufacturing processes to end-of-life. Companies can now revisit their product portfolios to make sustainability-driven decisions in materials and the human activity associated with manufacturing.
Do you need to understand the environmental impact of using an aluminum cap vs. a plastic cap? Do you want to understand how much the blow molding process is affecting CO2 emissions? Would you like to understand exactly how much you've improved your product design from a sustainability objective in order to report the improvement? The 360 Sustainable Innovation LCA tool provides CO2, water toxicity, total environmental footprint and more than a dozen other metrics so you can evaluate the environmental impact and make tradeoffs before you decide which action to take.
Key Benefits of the solution:
- Use Lifecycle assessment with the packaging virtual twin
- Accelerate design decisions with environmental guidance
- Address hotspots across the portfolio quickly
- Leverage innate 3DEXPERIENCE platform capability
- Make sustainability assessment available enterprise-wide
