IBM offers Environmental PLM
The growing trend in the use of PLM as an evironmental tool has increased with the announcement that IBM is launching an Environmental Product Lifecycle Management consulting service. The offering will help clients make their products more eco-friendly from development and manufacturing through delivery and use to end-of-life reclamation and recycling.
With the ability to analyze every phase of a product’s existence, IBM will ensure the design be environmentally friendly from the beginning. This includes considering the materials used to make and package it, the energy needed to produce it, transport and use it, and designing it to be refurbished or recycled when it’s no longer useable.
“The days of using inordinate amounts of energy, toxic chemicals and wasteful packaging to create throwaway products that just get tossed in the landfill are coming to an end,” said Mark Wilterding, IBM’s global leader for product lifecycle management consulting.
“Governments, environmental advocacy groups, and most of all consumers are demanding that companies do better, and designing a product from the start to be eco-friendly throughout its lifetime is the most effective way to do that.”
Full press release at CSRwire.
