Impact By Design
At Every Phase Of The Journey
The Critical LifeCycle Vantage Point
In order to maximise positive impact, we need to have full lifecycle visibility, combined with a deep understanding of the product journey. Products are being designed, developed and manufactured in different parts of the world. Bridging these lifecycle phases with better information is the first step in building better products.
We need to ensure designers are working with the context of manufacturing realities, supply planners working within limitations on capacity, and all stakeholders work cohesively to advance sustainability goals.
Only when all phases of a product lifecycle are managed seamlessly with this context, can we see real progress on overall product and supply chain sustainability.
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Sustainable Product Design & LCA
Enable designers and engineers to make better sustainability choices by highlightng opportunities in materials, assemblies and repairability. Additional focus on areas such as longevity, modularity, disassembly can have significant impact on overall product sustainability performance.
LifeCycle can help your team unlock opportunities in sustainable design.
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Sustainable Packaging Design
Start with materials, ensure you employ the most effective strategy across recyclability, compostability, biodegradability. Elimination of single-use plastics, solent based adhesives and inks. Measure the palletization efficiency to ensure low carbon distribution is achieved.
Packaging tells a story to your customer, its their first experience of your product, LifeCycle can help you make sure its a positive one.
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Ethical Sourcing
Get to know and rate your supply chain. Strong partnerships with a trusted supply base is the key to strong ESG performance within your vendor base. Be a strong partner, not the police, when it comes to building a supply chain ESG program that benefits all stakeholders. Understanding all tiers of your supply network is key to success across any hardware business, in terms of speed, cost and quality.
LifeCycle can help your team optimise your supply chain ESG performance.
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Manufacturing Efficiency
Bridge the gap between design and assembly. Ensure your sustainable design intent is realised through the development process and onto the factory floor. Create the necessary feedback mechanism back to product design to ensure the process can iterate positively to further enhance your sustainability credentials.
Sustainability is now an established factor in optimising your manufacturing strategy, LifeCycle can help you capitalise on that opportunity.
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Logistics & Distribution
How your product moves from factory gate to end consumer can have dramatic impacts on its overall environmental performance. As consumer behaviours change, and sales channels evolve, choosing a distribution strategy that accounts for carbon impact of transportation and storage is a critical consideration when trying to maximise your sustainability performance.
LifeCycle can help you establish a multi-channel distribution strategy that minimises impact on your carbon budget.
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Product EOL, Take-back & Disposal
Transition to The Circular Economy is accelerating. We need better products that last longer, and when they do reach their end of life, they must find new uses elsewhere. This can be in the form of refurbished products, or disassembled for reused materials, and safe disposal where that is not possible.
Ultimately the best designed and manufactured products will fully re-enter the market as valued products and materials time and time again, LifeCycle can help you navigate this transition.
