Efforts to improve product sustainability don’t begin and end with a life cycle assessment. NPI Engineer Ian Hardy surveys the manufacturing industry’s effort to reduce environmental impacts, and walks us through 6 considerations for hardware developers looking to elevate the sustainability of their manufacturing phase.

Learn about the methods the Synapse team has developed for understanding how to achieve sustainability goals for a new product in this TEDx Talk with Mechanical Engineering Tech Lead, Will Harrison.

Utilities like electricity are crucial during emergencies, but they can also be the cause. So what can we do to prevent potential catastrophes and be prepared when they do happen? With wildfires ravaging our local cities, we decided to take a look at what technologies like edge AI, inductive energy harvesting, and secure long-range wireless mesh networks could do to help paint a more detailed picture for utilities of the current status of their electrical infrastructure.

As a product development consulting company, we are in a unique position to drive sustainable design across industries—and we don’t intend to stop there. Instead, we are sharing our work to help others design more sustainable products and systems. This ebook abstracts our sustainable design process into easy-to-use tools, which can be applied to any hardware product development.

An expert-packed panel discussion exploring the opportunities, challenges, and tradeoffs associated with sustainable product development.

Get a look into the last stage of the Synapse Sustainable Design Process—“Select & Execute Relevant Strategies"—with this downloadable guide.

As sustainable design becomes a higher priority in the development of new products & systems, it’s becoming critical for engineers to learn how to apply industry-accepted sustainable design and manufacturing practices for new product development.

Designing for the environment doesn’t mean “expensive” or result in sacrifices. With little decisions, we all can reduce our impact on natural resources.