We provide the only manufacturing intelligence platform to optimize products for cost, manufacturability, and sustainability. Importantly, aPriori measures greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions throughout a manufacturer’s supply chain (Scope 3).
What is Sustainable Development and Manufacturing?
Sustainable product development and manufacturing strategies reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and help product manufacturers and suppliers mitigate climate change. Manufacturers can reduce a product’s carbon footprint through product design, sourcing, manufacturing process, and factory location.
Why is Sustainability in Business Critical?
Manufacturers face mounting pressure to be more environmentally responsible from customers demanding “green” products and investors scrutinizing sustainability in their portfolios. To underscore this point, 85% of investors considered environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in their investments in 2020, according to Gartner.
Manufacturing brands must also measure their carbon footprint to comply with looming reporting mandates from the European Union, the SEC, and other regulators. And the United Nations is directing all organizations and countries to support climate change mitigation.
Make Manufacturing More Sustainable with aPriori
Incorporating sustainability into manufacturing operations is complex and extremely time-consuming. And many manufacturers don’t have the integrated tools to see how design and manufacturing changes will impact cost, sustainability, or performance in real time. Until now.
aPriori provides real-time insights for manufacturers to measure, reduce, and help to report on their products’ carbon footprint during product design and production. By adding CO2e emissions data, aPriori provides the only manufacturing intelligence platform to optimize products for cost, manufacturability, and sustainability in real time. Use aPriori to answer sustainability questions quickly and confidently, including:
- How can I meet my profitability and sustainability targets?
- Which materials are the most sustainable?
- Which manufacturing methods/processes use the least amount of energy (and produce the least waste)?
- Which suppliers in my supply chain (Scope 3) are designing and developing the most sustainable parts and components for my products?
How Does aPriori’s Manufacturing Sustainability Solution Work?
With aPriori, design and manufacturing teams can extend industry-proven design and digital factory data to get transparent CO₂e footprint information. Learn more about our Manufacturing Insights Platform.
Gain Powerful Manufacturing Sustainability Insights
• Material Costs. Capture all GHG emissions from raw material through to material utilization with aPriori’s comprehensive and transparent calculations.
• Manufacturing Process Costs. Leverage precise 3D CAD-driven algorithms that can be configured to your operations – including energy use and electricity mix factors – to calculate process CO₂e.
• Total CO₂e. Establish the total CO₂e value quickly by adding the material CO₂e and process CO₂e. Manufacturers can then use total CO₂e to identify the largest contributors and then focus on mitigation.