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Posted October 27, 2009
Environmental pressures and sustainable business challenges are changing the way companies make products. A jointly commissioned survey by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and Autodesk found that two-thirds of ASME members have worked on designing sustainable products. More than half of the practicing engineers responding to the study expect to increase their use of sustainable design practices in the next year.
Rob Cohee, Industry Solution Evangelist for Autodesk Manufacturing, explores sustainable design for manufacturers with Sustainable Minds™ Release 1.0. Here, Rob imports BOM data extracted directly from Autodesk Inventor.
For more than five years, Autodesk has been researching and working with customers on sustainable design issues. In 2008, we announced a collaboration with Sustainable Minds, LLC, an on-demand, green product design software and information services company. Their new release, Sustainable Minds™ 1.0, is streamlined for interoperability with Autodesk Inventor software. Through this collaboration, Autodesk is taking designers and engineers beyond 3D and developing technology to address the world’s most challenging environmental issues.
Travis Lee, Sustainable Engineering Lead for LUNAR, a customer of both Autodesk and Sustainable Minds, describes "the inability to perform simple on-the-fly life cycle assessments when the product is in its infancy" to be one of the primary challenges of early stage product development. Core to Sustainable Minds Release 1.0 is design decision support software for environmental lifecycle assessment (LCA) and rapid iteration of product concepts in the earliest stages of design.
Sustainable Minds uses the science of Okala™ to inform designers about the impact of their design decisions across the product life cycle – from materials and processes in manufacturing to consumables in the use phase, transportation, and end-of-life processes. Okala is a lifecycle impact assessment methodology for evaluating ecological and human health impacts from products used in North America. It can also be used to assess products in regions outside of Europe. It evaluates 10 environmental impact categories, including global warming, and includes 450+ impact factors with CO2 equivalent values.
The user builds a 'system bill of materials (SBOM)' for a reference product, which results in a total Okala score. Design teams can then generate and compare an unlimited number of what-if scenarios and have quantified environmental impact data for making trade-off decisions about what to design and manufacture.
Sustainable Minds Release 1.0 helps Lee and his team at LUNAR, "make sustainable early stage decisions without feeling restrained from quickly exploring new aesthetic and functional design options, and without using the time and budget that a final, fully detailed LCA requires."Autodesk is proud of our collaboration with Sustainable Minds and excited to hear from you, our manufacturing community, about how you are pushing the boundaries of sustainable design. Email your stories to daniel.zucker@autodesk.com.
Learn more about Sustainable Minds. Learn more about Autodesk’s Sustainable Design.
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