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Sustainability has become a crucial focus across industries, driven by environmental concerns, regulatory pressures, and consumer expectations. The automotive, MedTech, and aerospace sectors, traditionally known for their resource-intensive operations, are undergoing significant transformations to reduce their environmental impact. Companies in these industries are adopting innovative technologies, sustainable materials, and efficient manufacturing processes to create a greener future.
The Sustainability Template for Codebeamer will be introduced with the Codebeamer 3.0 release in March 2025. The template serves as a comprehensive sustainability knowledge archive, encompassing various levels of sustainable design practices. It aims to educate and guide on sustainable design principles while ensuring traceability. It’s designed to support your organization in achieving its sustainability goals, whether they pertain to the shift to electric and lightweight vehicles in automotive, the push for sustainable materials and waste reduction in MedTech, or the need to lower emissions while maintaining safety and performance in the aviation industry.
Designing for Sustainability
Designing for Sustainability
Sustainability intuition and guidance have remarkable value early in design. These early decisions can reduce footprints, drive efficiencies, and avoid expensive changes later in the design cycle. Design-for-Sustainability is a familiar discipline for some designers and new for others, so we tailored the navigation for both novice guidance and expert look-up.
Helping You Meet Your Sustainability Goals – Wherever You Are
One of the biggest challenges companies face is knowing where to start. Sustainability is a broad, complex issue, and many organizations struggle with how to implement meaningful change. That’s why our Sustainability Template is designed to meet you where you are – whether you’re just getting started, refining your approach, or leading the industry in sustainable innovation. The template’s goal is to inspire value-driven sustainability requirements that ultimately trace through design and test verification. It can be divided into three levels: Sustainability Basics, Lifecycle Thinking, and Design for X.
Sustainability Basics
If you’re just starting out, the template provides clear, easy-to-use guidelines for integrating sustainability into your design process. This section introduces the concept of sustainability and provides initial considerations for incorporating it into the design process. Predefined standards and material recommendations make it simple to begin reducing your organization’s environmental impact.
Lifecycle Thinking
If you’ve already taken steps toward sustainability, the template helps you optimize your efforts. Features such as information about regulatory compliance, design with circularity in mind, and traceability to help you ensure that you’re making data-driven decisions. Lifecycle Thinking explores circular design practices and addresses all stages of a product's life cycle. This section is formatted in manufacturing terms for easy understanding by discrete manufacturers.
Design for X
If you are already well-versed in sustainability and know in what areas you want to reduce your organization’s footprint, this template provides you with specific sustainable design practices that you can jump to right from the start. This section of the template offers detailed guidance for users who are already familiar with sustainable practices, focusing on specific areas of the product life cycle to reduce environmental impact. Design for X is the most helpful section of the Sustainability Template to pull trackers from into other templates.
Features of the Sustainability Template
Codebeamer’s Sustainability Template is designed to help you integrate sustainability seamlessly into your product development process.
Information on Regulatory Compliance
Keeping up with sustainability regulations is one of the biggest challenges in product development. This Codebeamer template provides light information about sustainability standards to reduce the risk of non-compliance. However, this tracker is only meant to raise awareness about regulations that may apply to the user. By embedding compliance considerations into product development, companies can avoid costly regulatory setbacks while staying ahead of industry expectations.
Design with Circulatory in Mind
A truly sustainable product isn’t just about using eco-friendly materials. It’s about optimizing the entire product lifecycle, from design to end-of-life recovery. Codebeamer’s Sustainability Template includes a vast amount of information about lifecycle thinking, and how to design products with circularity in mind. By integrating lifecycle thinking into the development process, companies can make sustainability a core part of product innovation rather than an afterthought.
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