Sustainability Insights

Baseline and then cut your product’s carbon footprint with aPriori's powerful and precise 3D CAD-driven analysis and guidance. Optimize product design and manufacturing for profit, CO₂e, and manufacturability. And evaluate cost, carbon, and manufacturability trade-offs with aPriori.

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).

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“How do you bring sustainability insights into your design process? The same way we bring the cost perspective into engineering. aPriori makes it fact-based. We’re calculating on the same methodology. Now carbon footprint, alongside cost, becomes a new kind of currency.”

— Tonni Rasmussen, Global Manager Cost & Value Engineering, Grundfos

How Does aPriori’s Manufacturing Sustainability Solution Work?

aPriori has two decades of experience providing manufacturing intelligence to optimize products for cost and manufacturability. Building on its cost and manufacturability expertise, aPriori now integrates ecoinvent’s respected life cycle inventory database into its 3D CAD analysis engine.

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.

1) Key Features

Digital manufacturing platforms leverage imported 3D CAD files to produce comprehensive, real-time insights into product cost, manufacturability, and sustainability.

After successfully importing their 3D CAD files into the manufacturing insights platform, businesses can leverage digital factories, which are configurable to represent their own facilities and suppliers – and include real-world labor rates, specific machines, materials, and production processes.

2) Key Features

Companies can also calculate how four primary levers, including geometry/shape, material, manufacturing processes, and location/electricity mix, influence cost and CO₂e emissions.

Manufacturing insights include all product costs, including labor and assembly, to generate an accurate “should-cost” value.

3) Key Features

In addition to “should cost” projections, the platform layers in the following sustainability-based variables to produce comprehensive “should carbon” calculations.

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.

Manufacturing Sustainability Advantages

Design for Sustainability

• Product design shape, material, and process trade-off analysis for CO₂e footprint through configurable digital factories

• Make informed decisions to reduce environmental impact

Sustainable Manufacturing & Scope 3

• Compare suppliers’ environmental impact based on their geographic location

• Reduce material waste based on process, compare materials’ GHG emissions

Sustainable Modeling

• Baseline a product’s environmental impact for reporting & identify CO₂e outliers

• Optimize components for cost and CO₂e equivalents while ensuring manufacturability

Design engineers: Evaluate design options for performance and sustainability

Cost engineers: Reduce costs and manufacturing processes that address both cost and sustainability

Product Sustainability Experts: Analyze where CO₂e drivers are in the product and process to focus on where the biggest impact can be made

Sourcing: Research and simulate alternative materials and suppliers

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