So, what is sustainable design? Put simply, it is the practice of taking steps to minimize negative environmental impact when creating products, components, systems, and so on. The goal is to promote better quality of life by lowering carbon emissions, reducing waste, and limiting resource consumption before the design hits the production line.
Sustainable design is made possible through innovation and ingenuity as well as the rapid advancement of technology. Lately, as technology has grown in leaps and bounds, it has opened the door for new, sustainability-driven practices in product and system design across industries.
For manufacturing, this means rethinking traditional approaches and implementing changes not only designed to increase efficiency and profits, but also to enhance environmental conservationism. Achieving this requires engineers — as well as all others involved in the design process — to look at the overall lifecycle of the product or system and make changes throughout.
One way to do so is to perform thorough audits and implement extensive assessments based on the various parts of the product’s lifecycle. Along the same lines is carefully considering the materials chosen as well as the processes used within production. New technologies, such as the IoT and computer-aided design (CAD) software, can be instrumental in this matter and work toward minimal material waste and energy loss.
These are just a few tactics to help drive sustainability efforts in manufacturing. If you would like to learn more, please see the accompanying resource from STOBER for further information.
Sustainability in Manufacturing Machine Design from Stober, a right angle servo gearbox manufacturer
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