Sustainable Minds, a greener product design software and
information services company, today announced the general release of
Sustainable Minds 1.0, a comprehensive SaaS software and information service
that enables companies to create more environmentally sustainable products. It
integrates on-demand, Web-based software with educational content enabling
users to apply ecodesign strategies to generate innovative and greener product
concepts, and use life cycle assessment (LCA) to measure the potential
environmental and human health impacts of the concepts. This delivers
quantified performance metrics to facilitate design decisions that support
greener products.
It is designed for product designers, mechanical engineers,
product managers, marketers and sustainability leads in manufacturing companies
and consultancies, as well as educational institutions teaching product design,
engineering and/or sustainable business.
Sustainable Minds integrates three components in one system:
1. Life Cycle Assessment: Easy to use software enables rapid
iteration and evaluation of product concepts - in a standardized and consistent
way - in the earliest stages of design. It provides an alternative to
full-scale LCA offerings that are costly, complex, time-consuming and difficult
to use for evolving product concepts. Sustainable Minds LCA requires no LCA
training or expertise. It produces compelling, graphic output for fast
interpretation and communication.
2. Learning
Center: A content-rich environment
that provides information on environmental sustainability design practices
(ecodesign) and LCA, in-context while users work on projects.
3. Community: A place to learn from, and connect with,
professionals in manufacturing, consulting and education who are working to
design greener products.
Sustainable Minds
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