Manufacturing Insights Podcast

2022 saw the first wave of sustainability mandates hit Europe, while US companies scrambled to track and improve their carbon footprint. Will the promises of 2022 transform into results in 2023?

Chief Sustainability Officers face a huge task, with limited resources. New tech solutions can help CSOs understand and control the carbon footprint of their products.

Sustainability can’t be an afterthought in manufacturing – it needs to be prioritized from the very first design meeting. New software tools make it easy for teams to operationalize design and production for sustainability.

New processes in plastic recycling are making manufacturing with plastic more sustainable. But how much do manufacturers really know about mechanical, chemical, and biorecycling? And how can they start tracking plastic waste now to reach sustainability targets in the future?

Can the housing crisis be solved by sustainability design? When sustainability design is put towards the problem of building construction, the result is modular solutions that ship more cheaply and assemble more quickly.

The EU's new rules for sustainability reporting mean that manufacturers must monitor six sustainability objectives. Learn what they are and how to compete under the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities.

A digital solution won’t be very effective if the ROI it promises occurs only years in the future, and only after your team has given up established processes and technologies they find useful and familiar. This is especially true in Japan, where manufacturers hold on to legacy systems. To win, any new solution must work immediately and seamlessly with current technology.

High demand for electric vehicles bodes well for EV manufactures, but only if they can deliver their product amidst supply chain shortages and fluctuating materials costs.

3 major disruptions are keeping manufacturers up at night. Philippe Adam has been listening to manufactures' pain points, and he has the diagnosis.

Next generation Aerospace innovations like SAFs and eVTOLs are too far off to meet the sustainability goals of today’s major airliners, says John Pila, former CTO of Spirit AeroSystems. Instead, airliners must rely on a tried-and-true sustainability method: cutting weight and cost.

Sustainability is becoming a more and more important factor in the evaluation of large capital investments. From his long career as an airline executive, Bernard Hensey shares what this means for airline pricing.