SolidWorks Sustainability
 
Can your company meet customers' growing demand for eco-friendly products?

In a couple of years, you won't have a choice. Sustainable design gets you there ahead of the market with great, green products.

Why SolidWorks Sustainability?

Worldwide awareness of environmental issues has never been more acute. Every day more consumers buy products based on environmental impact, forcing manufacturers to reconsider how they develop and market products. Sustainable design is fast becoming a matter of global corporate citizenship. It means making decisions to ensure future environmental stability. Learning about designing for the environment now will put you ahead of the curve. With SolidWorks Sustainability, you'll have the built-in environmental intelligence to make more informed decisions about what materials to use. You'll also see how region-specific material sourcing, manufacturing, use, and disposal will affect your product's life cycle before manufacturing begins.

Environmental Impact Factors

Acid rain. Water pollution. Global warming. Dying animals, plants, and fish. The list goes on. Accurately gauging our impact on the environment has only really come into focus in the past couple of decades. Sustainable design looks at how your product's development, from cradle to grave, will affect four crucial environmental factors

. Air acidification
. Carbon footprint
. Total energy consumed
. Water eutrophication

Measuring these impacts will help you better design for the environment.

Life Cycle Assessment

LCA is the detailed analysis that gives you the information you need to make the most environmentally friendly decisions throughout product design. The analysis looks at a product's entire life, which encompasses ore extraction, material production, manufacturing, product use, end-of-life disposal, and all of the transportation that occurs between these stages.

. Like all SolidWorks products, SolidWorks Sustainability makes a complex process easy to understand and use.

. Intuitive LCA Tool - Conduct comprehensive LCA analyses of parts and assemblies quickly and easily.

. Environmental Impact Dashboard - See in real time your product's air, carbon, energy, and water impacts.

. Baseline Measurement - Capture the environmental impact of an existing product as your baseline, and then monitor
   in real time how your new design compares.

. Find Similar Material - Quickly search the material database for alternative materials based on their
   mechanical properties.

. Customizable Reports - Create impressive reports that document the improvements you have made to the
   environmental impact of your products.

. Integrated SolidWorks User Interface - Work productively with a smart, familiar interface that lets you see environmental
   impacts and make changes directly in the product model.

1. Environmental Impact Dashboard

2. Seamless Integration

3. Material Selection Tool

4. Generate Environmental Reports

5. Grounded in Life Cycle Assessment

6. The Sustainable Advantage