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🗺 Navigating the swiftly evolving world of modern manufacturing requires leaders to look beyond just cost and risk. The growth in customers’ expectations and increasing sustainability regulations are pushing product teams to revolutionize their approaches to product lifecycle management (PLM) and supply chain operations. 🌱 Manufacturers must make smarter and faster design and sourcing decisions and — given the urgency of sustainability — demonstrate their environmental credentials to thrive. 📈 With that in mind, earlier this year we launched our Sustainability Data Maturity Index, a new tool we developed in tandem with Forrester that allows you to see exactly where your organization sits on the sustainability maturity curve. 🖥 The Maturity Index, through a set of simple questions, allows you to compare the maturity of your sustainability data practice against others in your industry and region. Find out how your organization is navigating the transition to a more sustainable economy, and learn what differentiates those who are doing it well. 💡 It'll help you to understand how your peers and competitors are integrating sustainability metrics into their reporting, find out what good sustainability data practice looks like, and get the support you need to build the business case for true automation. 🥫 Today we're sharing an example of what the most common response looks like from an organization in the #BuildingMaterialsandChemicals industry. 👇 Flick through the summary document below, and then head on over to the following link to take the test for yourself: https://lnkd.in/e4JpUcVY #sustainability #maturityindex #sustainabilitydata #datamaturity #LCA #PLM

💡 Today we're stepping back and revisiting our customer story with Pukka Herbs - a look at how Pukka introduced new and improved supplement packaging from sustainably sourced cardboard and wood pulp using Makersite. 🍵 A certified B Corp business, Pukka set approved science-based targets in 2018 and is committed to reaching Net Zero by 2030. With an aim to see minimal and sustainable packaging become the norm, Pukka worked with the Makersite platform to reduce the #GHG emissions from their packaging. 🤔 Their challeneges were threefold: 1️⃣ To reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from product packaging 2️⃣ Difficulty in quickly knowing the best choice of alternative packaging to use 3️⃣ Traditional LCAs were slow and resource intensive 🗝 Makersite provided two key solutions: ✅ Digital twin of product and the supply chain created live and dynamic visualizations to ‘see the impact’ of Pukka’s choices ✅ Continuous modelling of GHG emissions across multiple supply chain and material databases simultaneously increased the speed at which decisions were made 👏 Ultimately, the results spoke for themselves. The Makersite platform was used by Pukka to identify a greenhouse gas emission saving of 58% from their new packaging. ⬇ You can read the customer story in full at the link below: https://lnkd.in/eMJYRWvg #NetZero #RandD #Sustainability #GHGemissions

🌱 It'd be easy to assume that when we talk about sustainable design and manufacturing, we're just talking about heavy machinery or computers or the automotive industry. ❗But it's much more than that. 💄 In a new interview with CosmeticsDesign, Makersite CEO Neil D'Souza discusses how sustainability has become a crucial aspect of product development in beauty, as well as the significant challenges facing the cosmetics industry when it comes to addressing environmental impact from the design phase. 🗣 As Neil notes in the interview, "with over 90% of a cosmetic product's environmental impact determined by design and the materials it's made from, the only way for personal care and cosmetics companies to address sustainability is to change how products are made." 👇 Read the full interview at the link below: https://lnkd.in/ebEGn-6k #Beauty #Sustainability #ProductDesign #Cosmetics

🔎 Today, we're revisiting a recent blog on the recently revised Ecodesign framework designed to make products sold in the EU more reusable, repairable, upgradeable, and recyclable. ♻ It is development designed, as Italian lawmaker ALESSANDRA MORETTI noted at the time, "to put an end to the ‘take, make, throw away’ model that is so harmful to our planet, our health and our economy." ✅ In the blog, we take a look what the regulation is, what happens next, and what actions organizations should be taking. 👇 You can read the piece in full at the link below: https://lnkd.in/emd77yjV #ESPR #Ecodesign #Sustainability #Manufacturing

“AI washing” - what does it mean for climate tech? 🤖 When it comes to climate, the potential for exponential technologies like AI to unlock impact at scale is massive. While the hype is exciting, how do we make sure the right technology gets funded? We invited Carbon Re founder Aidan O'Sullivan, Makersite CEO Neil D'Souza and Sifted journalist Miriam Partington to unpack the buzz at the Planet A Summit. Key takeaways👇 - Investor demand for AI investments incentivises fundraising companies to ‘bolt AI on the side’ of their products, leading to “AI washing” and fuelling hype - Investors should focus on founders who are trying to solve a hard problem that AI can help solve as the core of the product solution - There are many great applications for AI and climate including material choices, process engineering and supply chain design - Shift in AI community from five years ago as “best” opportunities for AI scientists are now in solving massive climate problems instead of joining Facebook or Google - Ultimately, deep tech technologies simply require more sophisticated, deep tech investors The biggest threat of AI washing, according to Neil? Simply that huge amounts of money and time would be better spent elsewhere. What do you think, are we creating a somewhat artificial AI bubble that will, at some point, burst? 🧐

📢 Makersite and Carbon Minds forge new strategic partnership 📢 🤝 We're delighted to announce that we've teamed up with Carbon Minds, the provider of the largest and most regionalized product carbon footprint (PCF) and life cycle assessment (LCA) database for chemicals and plastics. 💻 The partnership ushers in a new era for both companies, and will integrate Carbon Minds’ entire database into Makersite’s data foundation for improved design, sourcing, and reporting. 🌱 Governments and companies worldwide are pledging to achieve net-zero emissions, but chemicals and plastics manufacturers often struggle to identify and eliminate the use of harmful materials and processes. With the integration of Carbon Minds’ PCF and LCA database for chemicals and plastics, cm.chemicals, Makersite customers can ensure every product in their portfolio is made more sustainably and in line with regulations. 🗣 Makersite CEO Neil D'Souza: ✅ “By partnering with Carbon Minds, we’re providing our customers with even more extensive coverage of their full chemical value chain, spanning from resource extraction to the finished chemical and plastic products. Makersite customers will have access to even more granular data to make faster product design and sourcing decisions.” ⬇ You can read more about our work together at the link below: https://lnkd.in/eiUCNwKr #Partnerships #Data #PCF #LCA #Sustainability

👀 Great to see Makersite featured heavily in Jessica Zimmer's new piece for engineering.com, covering the Product Lifecycle Intelligence (PLI) value proposition and our use of digital twin technology to optimize cost and sustainability metrics. 🖋 As the article notes: 🛠 "PLI is designed to integrate with CAD and PLM tools to easily extract data. With PLI, an engineer can create multiple digital twins and distinguish them by the form of the product and changes in the materials that compose the product. This allows an engineer to visualize, compare and share different versions of the product. 🖥 PLI delves deep into its data set by providing an explanation of the supply chain dynamics to create a product, a breakdown of the product’s estimated costs and visualizations of the product’s lifecycle assessment. This last step shows the carbon footprint of the product from its existence to its disposal. The Makersite approach looks at the product’s end-of-life considerations and assesses supply chain risks like conflicts. 💡 PLI has the capability to provide so much information that at certain points it begins to display data in a grid. This allows the user to see that obtaining a specific element requires the expenditure of a certain amount of energy and the energy expended will come from a certain source." 👇 For more detail, read the article in full at the link below: https://lnkd.in/e8zZ7Qhw #PLM #Engineering #LCA #PLI #ProductLifecycleIntelligence

🤖 🌱 Makersite's Pablo Päster was at the AI & Innovation for Sustainability Roundtable in Palo Alto yesterday and caught this mention of our solution from Microsoft's Kelly Stumbaugh in her presentation. 👀 Always great to see! ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ #AI #Sustainability #AIinSustainability #Ecodesign #LCA

🔎 #ICYMI: A recent article on engineering.com features a great, concise overview of our recent study with Forrester, 'Transform Product Sustainability Into Performance Initiatives With Product Lifecycle Intelligence'. 📌 As the article notes, our work with Forrester served to highlight how maturity impacts manufacturers’ ability to incorporate sustainability into PLM. It pinpoints 5 key areas manufacturers anticipate will significantly affect their products, prioritizing regulatory compliance, growth and sustainability: 1️⃣ Evolving customer expectations 2️⃣ Growing emphasis on advancing a circular economy 3️⃣ Heightened demand for transparency in supply chains 4️⃣ Economic constraints 5️⃣ Challenges related to supply chain shortages 🤔 It also calls attention to how those manufacturers can elevate their PLM practices, recommending 4 key steps: ✅ First, it is about “modernizing product innovation processes and platforms” to empower designers with product lifecycle intelligence ✅ Then, it is about “reclassifying sustainability as a performance initiative” to drive revenue and margin growth ✅ And in doing so, “developing a business case for product lifecycle intelligence” to quantify its impact on competitiveness, time to market, and pricing ✅ While “ensuring consistent enterprise-level ESG data” to streamline innovation and regulatory reporting processes ⬇ You can glean more actionable insights in the full article at the link below: https://lnkd.in/ehyJmqXa #PLM #sustainability #manufacturing #supplychains

📢 Makersite announces strategic partnership with Ansys 📢 🤝 We're delighted to announce our strategic partnership with Ansys, a global leader in engineering simulation software. 🛠 The collaboration will integrate Makersite’s cutting-edge solution with Ansys’ market-leading Granta software, a tool that allows materials experts and product design teams to innovate, resolve materials issues, reduce costs and validate their materials choices. 🖥 Engineers will benefit from seamless integration between Makersite’s extensive material databases and Granta, enabling them to simulate various product iterations and scenarios without ever having to build a product in practice. 🗣 “Developing sustainable products requires accurate insights into multiple trade-offs early in the design process,” said Mark Hindsbo, GM and VP of Ansys. “By integrating Ansys’ gold standard simulation and market leading material platform with Makersite’s data-driven insights, we are providing a powerful resource for engineers and designers to innovate responsibly and meet the demands of a rapidly changing market.” 👇 You can read more about the partnership at the link below: https://lnkd.in/d33PSgAg #partnerships #engineering #CAD #CAE #PLM #AnsysGranta