PLM Green Global Alliance contributor Mark Reisig recently led a CIMdata webinar on “Sustainability Trends Within PLM” on April 10, 2025.
Key topics of the agenda that Mark covered include:
- Status of Sustainability
- Sustainability Trends
- Embedding Sustainability into PLM Strategies
- Circular Economy and the Digital Product Passport (DPP)
- Reducing Product Carbon Footprint (PCF)
- Enhancing Supply Chain Visibility
- Design for Sustainability (DfS)
- Lifecycle Assessments (LCA)
- Digital Threads and Digital Twins
- Why Companies Should Care
- Concluding Remarks
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There is no denying that January 2025 was a sobering month for news about climate change. The month started with the devastating fires in Southern California, made worse by a warming climate, and ended with deconstruction of U.S. federal government agencies, funding, staff, websites, data, policies, and agreements related to climate change.
Yet, there was also encouraging news from around the world in that the momentum toward a more sustainable low-carbon greener global economy appears unstoppable by any one country, for which many Americans like myself can be ever so thankful. You can follow this progress in other posts, newsletters, and panel discussions from the PLM Green Global Alliance.
To see what climate news you might have missed in your own news feeds last month, read on in the latest Climate Change Chronicles which is presented below in approximate chronological order.
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Sustainability in manufacturing is a hot topic. Customers, shareholders and regulatory agencies are increasingly demanding manufacturing companies provide sustainable, carbon-neutral options for the products they design, manufacture, sell, and service.
For many of these companies, most of the tools they need to do this are already available in their enterprise tech stack. These solutions include PLM and CLM. But how and where should they begin?
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