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Sustainability Xpress could not have been released, by SolidWorks Corporation, at a better time, with the world looking at Initiatives to address Global Warming, Reducing Greenhouse Gases and Carbon Footprint. A simple add-in inside SolidWorks, it helps Designers understand the impact of their designs on environment early in the design stage. In terms of recent economic downturn how do sustainable designs result in higher profit, larger market share and improved sales for engineered products? Sustainable designs need to have Conservation as the central theme. Conservation of: Material Energy Resources Conservation of Material helps lower cost of raw material used, select material that can be recycled and evaluate alternate materials that are eco-friendly. These objectives align perfectly with the cost reduction objectives of any organization that intends to remain competitive. Conservation of Energy focuses on Energy used to produce a product as well as energy consumed by the pro...

In these days of economic challenges, companies are forced to look at ways and means of reducing costs to survive and stay profitable. Some of the immediate priorities that need urgent management focus include: 1. How to reduce product cost to sustain healthy margins? 2. How to innovate and deliver products of high value without compromising on safety? 3. How to increase an already shrinking market share? 4. How to eliminate warranty costs, product recall and re-work? The questions are unending. This is just a partial list. The answers just do not seem to be there. A careful analysis of all the questions, posed above, provides a common denominator - Design Product cost is dictated by the Bill of Materials and Drawings. Innovation and USP of a product is driven by product function and efficiencies. Increasing market share is directly related to selling better products of higher value at affordable (read not lower) cost. Warranty issues, recall and re-work relate to product not...