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).

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 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.

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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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