158: Thinking Sustainability in Hardware Product Design

Dave Duncan is the Vice President Sustainability at PTC Corp, the company behind multiple product design software solutions including OnShape and CREO. He has spent over 20 years in the product design software world, and has his Bachelor of Engineering from Princeton University. Today Dave is going to share some valuable knowledge for inventors, startups, and small manufacturers on what it means to develop a sustainable product, what the 3 different types of product sustainability are, and how to use modern best practices in ensuring your product is most marketable by including sustainability as one of your key product development priorities.Today you will hear us talk about:
Designing for sustainability
Manufacturing for sustainability
Servicing and Lifecycle management of the product
Design for sustainability early
The main impacts are around carbon emissions
Products can be designed for sustainability
What do you have to do to adhere to sustainability, and what can you do to improve sustainability beyond what the regulations are.
Don’t wait too late in the product design lifecycle to start building sustainability into the product design.
Software can help analyze the options.
Build in sustainability to your early design.
Even in B2B product sales, now there are metrics to promote the purchasing of sustainable products. It gives your product an edge.
This is an advantage as a startup
80% of a product’s carbon and waste footprint is determined at design time.
20% can be done in the factory to reduce that further.
Bottleneck analysis
Energy management
The circular economy / circular product
In design, simply put, think about how your product will end, and how it can be re-used, recycled, or re-configured.
Think about your commercial relationships with your customers regarding end of useful life.
Generative design in OnShape can actually remove materials through AI. This is called lightweighting.
With Arena, you can manage the bill of materials, and analyze
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