Siemens Drives Sustainable Product Development with AI-powered Lifecycle Assessment Software

Siemens Digital Industries Software has announced the expansion of its Teamcenter software for product lifecycle management to add AI-powered Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) capabilities. This is part of Siemens’ broader strategy of delivering intelligence across the product lifecycle by leveraging the digital twin and robust data backbone to provide contextual insights that enhance every stage of the product and process. Teamcenter® Sustainability Lifecycle Assessment software empowers designers, engineers and manufacturers to use AI and supply chain data to more efficiently develop sustainable, compliant, and innovative products.

“Driving the development of products with sustainability at the core while maintaining speed, cost efficiency and regulatory compliance requires radically expanded lifecycle intelligence to be available across the entire manufacturing organization,” said Frances Evans, senior vice president, Lifecycle Collaboration Software, Siemens Digital Industries Software. “As industrial companies face challenging global compliance requirements and the need to reduce environmental impact, we are enabling our customers to leverage AI to design for sustainability, enable circularity, and optimize material choices from the start. With the full suite of lifecycle assessment capabilities from cradle to end of life in Teamcenter, our customers can transform product innovation with real-time environmental data.”

Developed in collaboration with Makersite, Teamcenter Sustainability Lifecycle Assessment is one of many ways Siemens is leveraging industrial data from the most comprehensive digital twin to unlock new insights. With the addition of AI-powered, predictive LCA data and analysis capabilities to Teamcenter, Siemens is adding a new layer of lifecycle intelligence that delivers the deepest insights for truly informed design and manufacturing decisions. Companies can eliminate data silos, streamline collaboration across design, engineering and sustainability teams and make faster, more informed decisions at scale to develop compliant, safe, cost-effective and environmentally friendly products.

The Teamcenter Sustainability Lifecycle Assessment solution empowers engineering and manufacturing teams to assess a product’s environmental compliance, supply chain risk and cost early and throughout the product’s lifecycle – integrated into mechanical product engineering, electronic/electrical design and simulation applications.

Product teams can access ISO-compliant LCA reports with visibility into indirect greenhouse gas emissions (Scope 2 and Scope 3) during early product development to significantly enhance the sustainability, compliance, and long-term profitability of their products. Users can also analyze the results of multi-criteria simulation embedded directly into the product’s bill of materials in Teamcenter to support better trade-offs between cost, performance and sustainability factors, enabling companies to adopt eco-design strategies like modularity, recyclability and reuse.

“The collaboration between Makersite and Siemens brings product lifecycle intelligence directly into core development workflows,” said Neil D’Souza, CEO and Founder, Makersite. “By integrating with Siemens’ Teamcenter, we deliver precise, detailed insights on cost, compliance, risk, and environmental performance – right within an engineer’s everyday tools, from early product design to manufacturing bills of materials. This integration helps accelerate the creation of affordable, safe, and sustainable products, enhances product master data, and makes it easier for companies to stay ahead of growing compliance requirements.”

To learn more about Teamcenter Sustainability Lifecycle Assessment and how Siemens is driving the next generation of data-driven, AI-enhanced product lifecycle management, visit www.plm.sw.siemens.com/en-US/teamcenter/solutions/sustainable-product-development/