SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT DESIGN

A Path to a Greener Future

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Initiatives Sustainable Product Design: A Path to a Greener Future

Achieving Net-Zero Goals


In today’s fast-changing world, the need to tackle climate change and environmental degradation has become more urgent than ever. As global challenges intensify, companies are increasingly recognizing sustainable product design as essential in their journey toward net-zero goals. Beyond reducing environmental impact, sustainable design enhances brand reputation and satisfies the growing consumer demand for eco-friendly, responsible products.

Empowering Sustainable Innovation for Lasting Impact

At PDSVISION, we believe sustainable product design is more than a trend—it’s a necessity. Our comprehensive approach integrates advanced tools, data, and methodologies to help businesses embed sustainability at every stage of product development. Modern product design requires balancing performance, cost-efficiency, and environmental responsibility. With our solutions and combination of partners, companies can streamline this balance, avoiding costly redesigns, mitigating risks, creating compliance reports and accelerating their path toward sustainability.

“The decisions made during the initial design are critical as 80% of a product’s environmental impact is determined during this phase.”
Journal of Sustainable Production and Consumption

Reduce Environmental Impact

By integrating sustainability into product design, companies can minimize waste, lower emissions, and reduce their overall carbon footprint, contributing to a healthier planet.

Sustainability Reporting

With centralized and organized data, generating comprehensive sustainability reports becomes effortless. This streamlined process allows you to easily track environmental metrics, meet compliance standards, and communicate your carbon footprint to stakeholders, saving time and reducing complexity.

Drive Long-Term Cost Efficiency

Sustainable design reduces the need for costly redesigns and inefficient resource use, ensuring that products are not only environmentally friendly but also cost-effective throughout their lifecycle.

How PDSVISION Helps You Reach Net-Zero Goals 

Navigating Compliance and Requirements
Material Selection
Simulate and Validate for Sustainability
Manage Your Carbon Footprint
Generate Sustainability Reports

Navigating Compliance and Requirements

Regulatory compliance is essential but often complex. With Codebeamer, we simplify the process, ensuring your products meet environmental standards and regulations, reducing the risk of non-compliance and costly delays. 

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Eco-Friendly Material Selection

The materials you choose directly impact your product’s sustainability. Ansys Granta enables the selection of high-performance, eco-friendly materials, reducing carbon footprint without sacrificing durability. By integrating Ansys Granta with PTC Windchill and CAD, we automate BOM reporting, centralizing data for easier tracking and real-time environmental analysis. This automation boosts ROI, identifies areas for improvement, and covers all aspects of production—from raw materials, subcontracted componentes to logistics—providing a comprehensive sustainability assessment throughout the product lifecycle.

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Simulate and Validate for Sustainability

Using Ansys Simulation and Creo, you can virtually test materials and designs before production, minimizing waste from physical prototypes and refining decisions that contribute to a more sustainable product lifecycle. 

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Manage Your Carbon Footprint

Effective Bill of Materials (BOM) management is critical for controlling environmental impact. Windchill enables you to track the carbon footprint of each component, providing transparency and actionable insights to optimize design choices. 

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Generate Sustainability Reports

Transparency is a cornerstone of sustainability. Windchill facilitates detailed sustainability reports, helping you track environmental performance, communicate your progress, and meet stakeholder expectations for responsible innovation. 

Explore Windchill for Green engineering

“When the designer defines the materials in the CAD software, Granta gives all data needed, while Windchill collects it and calculates the emissions. This way, the designers will have full control of the environmental impact of different materials. Ten years ago, the primary goal for design engineers was to reduce weight. In the future, the primary goal will be to reduce the emissions,”
Juuso Huhtiniemi – Senior Lecturer at Tampere University of Applied Sciences.

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FAQ

The Digital Product Passport, DPP, is part of the EU Ecodesign directive, or ESPR, which in turn is a part of the EU Green Deal. In this large context, the Digital Product Passport is a tool that will drive towards more sustainable production and consumption. The DPP will be a digital representation of a physical product, i.e. a kind of digital twin. It will comprise a set of digital data that is specific to a product and aims to make visible all relevant information about the product during its lifecycle. The passports will relate to sustainability, circularity, value retention for reuse, re-manufacturing, and recycling.
Scope 3 is part of the established Green House Gas Protocols Corporate Standard (GHG). This standard divides the reporting into three so-called scopes: Scope 1 includes direct emissions from company facilities and vehicles. Scope 2 includes indirect emissions from purchased electricity, heating, and cooling. Scope 3 is much more comprehensive. It includes more or less all other indirect emissions that the company does not own or control. Scope 3 divides these into 15 different categories, labeled as upstream and downstream activities. According to CSRD, organizations must report emissions from all relevant scope 3 categories.
As part of the CSRD, the EU has developed a comprehensive set of guidelines to standardize the sustainability reporting according to CSRD. These are called The European Sustainability Reporting Standards, ESRS. They define the rules of the CSRD and replace the earlier Non-Financial Reporting Directive, NFRD. The adoption of ESRS is mandatory for companies within its scope. It is organized into different standards, each covering specific aspects of sustainability reporting.
ESRS: European Sustainability Reporting Standards​ CSRD: Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive​ ESPR: Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation​ DPP: Digital Product Passport

Take the Next Step in Your Sustainability Journey

Sustainable product design is no longer optional—it’s the future. Discover how PDSVISION can help your company achieve its sustainability goals and thrive in an eco-conscious world. 

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