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Product architecture is the optimal backbone for sustainability strategies
- Identify and evaluate the effects of sustainability initiatives on the operating result at an early stage.
- Anchor materials, raw materials, transport routes and energy consumption as part of sustainable product planning
- Map and optimize the CO2 footprint of the products as a whole in the product architecture
- Evaluate, plan and optimize product maintainability and upgradeability
- Recognize and implement modularization strategy with high sustainability
- Optimize supplier and production strategy according to sustainable criteria
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Sustainable Product Development:
Here's how it is done
Mapping of sustainability criteria in the product architecture
The product architecture is a suitable evaluation and decision-making instance for identifying the challenges of sustainable product development and making decisions with a view to all relevant dependencies. This is where the link between the market and product perspectives in the product architecture is particularly effective.
Product-side and market-side sustainability work together
Market-side sustainability strategies serve to develop sustainable products and associated business models in line with market requirements. They serve to quickly transfer sustainability-relevant market requirements into product planning:
- Identify future customer and regulatory requirements (e.g., CO2 certificates and penalties).
- Improvement of the footprint in the use phase through new functions, e.g. through user feedback
- Using the sustainability of the product portfolio as a competitive advantage
Product-side sustainability strategies serve to optimize the product portfolio with a view to sustainable product structures. They serve to optimize the product and its components according to sustainability criteria:
- Drive technology decisions and trade-offs based on key sustainability criteria.
- Optimize the product footprint at the material and component level with a view to reusable and recycled materials
- Investigate modularization strategies to address repairability, upgradability, and end-of-life considerations
- Benchmark product sustainability
- Optimizing production in terms of energy, emissions, etc.
- Compare the impact of different sourcing strategies on the footprint of products and processes
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