How to improve eco design within your company?

In an ever changing market, designing eco friendly products becomes more important each day. Customers are looking more towards the sustainability of a product nowadays to see how ecofriendly it is. But how can you improve the adaptation of eco design within your company?

Ansys Granta

The Ansys Granta software is your go-to solution to design more eco friendly products. Granta helps you select materials which you can filter on tons of requirements, such as costs, strength, but also CO2 footprint for example.

With Ansys Granta, you gain access to a wide range of datasheets that are ready to use at a click of your mouse. This saves you a lot of time because you don’t have to search for material data online and also gives you the opportunity to easily compare different materials depending on your requirements. Granta gives you easy graphs to find out which material suits your design the most.

Start at the beginning

However, adding Ansys Granta is not the only step to take if you want to improve your environmental performance. There are a lot of things to consider, such as your own business drivers and the added value it will give to your design. You have to make sure that this is clear to have clear guidelines during the process that will follow. You also need to figure out if there is certaina legislation that might affect your design process.

Five steps to eco design

Once you did your preparations, it’s time to get started. There are five easy steps to get you started with you ecofriendly design improvements:

Consider environmental impact early in the design process
Imprecise data can guide good decisions
Consider the entire product system
Materials & process decisions are critical
Establish targets and the information system to support them

Want to know more?

Do you want to know more about these five steps and how they will help you with your green goals? Ansys offers you a free whitepaper explaining everything that is to consider and telling you more about the five steps to eco design. You can download the PDF underneath (only available in English):