By examining the opportunities across a material's lifecycle, this tool supports sustainable materials management, which is important in reducing environmental pressures and the demand for resource extraction.
NewCatCo aims to apply this thinking to the design of three-way catalysts, and will use the £25,000 TSB grant to cover a number of areas in its feasibility study including process energy accounting, the health-environmental impacts, materials flow and lifecycle analysis.
Opportunities and challenges in the petrochemical industry and the emergence of massive disruptive technologies have triggered a new revolution that has the power to fundamentally change industrial processes including manufacturing, engineering, materials, supply chains, lifecycle management.
It influences the environment all along the product and production lifecycle through material and energy consumption, emissions and significant land use.
In the United States, there has thus been a move to address the management of waste more holistically through municipal-level waste ordinances that consider the full lifecycle of material, and the deconstruction of buildings at end-of-life has emerged as a critical tool.
Enviromate, through an online marketplace, corporate internal platform and surplus donation element, offers the industry a tangible solution to re-use leftover material, increasing the product lifecycle, reducing landfill and decreasing the burden on the planet's natural resources.
Manufacturing industry has traditionally used Bill of Materials (BOMs) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools to track components and sub-assemblies within a product.
For an enterprise it is perhaps not attractive to conserve a particular type of material through product multiple lifecycles approach which is naturally abundant but extremely important if the material becomes critical.
