Sustainable products and services

Re-think product design for a sustainable growth.

To significantly reduce environmental emissions, companies must embrace disruption and revolutionize product design. The levers towards sustainability performance can be found along the entire value chain targeting material and energy efficiency, low impact materials as well as the application of circularity principles closing material loops. In the aera of resource scarcity the latter one not only reduces the environmental impact of products, but also strengthen business and resilience.

Product design towards sustainability requires the adoption of innovative design processes and tools, automating the collection and utilization of product lifecycle data, and leveraging scalable, sustainable technologies.

Our end-to-end approach helps companies integrate sustainability as a key driver in their product design processes and see positive impacts on their environmental performance, but also on business growth – all at speed and scale.

“Transitioning to sustainability-driven design and manufacturing of products can seem like a long, expensive and hence unfavorable undertaking. But implementing the right measures can help business to benefit in the long run.”
Dorothea Pohlmann, Business Lead – Sustainable products and services

Client stories

Jungheinrich’s journey to climate neutrality and a circular economy

Jungheinrich, the leading solutions provider of intralogistics, collaborated with Capgemini Invent to consolidate data for Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions and evaluated the lifecycle of selected products with Capgemini Engineering

European food retailer assumes strategic approach to sustainable packaging

Together with Capgemini Invent, a European food retailer began the optimization of its private-label packaging to drive clean growth, satisfy new packaging laws and meet increasing consumer expectations

How can OEMs embrace circularity?

Clément Chenut, Circular Economy Expert, Group Sustainability Accelerator, Capgemini Invent, highlights an ocean of opportunities for OEMs in the circular economy. So far, most sustainability efforts have focused on the upstream end of the value chain: the provisioning of raw materials and battery production. But Clément is excited about untapped potential between end of use and recycling for vehicles.

Research and insights

Report

Circular economy for a sustainable future

Report

Why sustainable product design is the need of the hour

Point of view

Intelligent Industry: The rise of circularity

Listen to the podcast

Frictionless future with intelligent products and services

Much has already been said about what intelligent products can do for business; the question now is, how? Nicolas Rousseau and Elisabet Svensson explore how intelligent products and services may benefit early adopters in the manufacturing industry.

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Expert perspectives

Sustainability

How to use sustainable design strategies to reduce costs across the value chain

Dr. Dorothea Pohlmann

Sep 21, 2023

Data and AI, Intelligent industry, Sustainability

What part of your intelligent product is worst for the environment?

Martine Stillman

Aug 17, 2022

Meet our experts

As Chief Technology Officer Sustainability, Dorothea is responsible for advising clients on business and engineering transformation projects. Her focus is on the development of sustainable products, assessing their impact on business and planet, adapting circular economy, integration of innovation, and leveraging digital technologies (such as quantum, digital twins, AI and ML) to accelerate our clients’ transformation from ambition to action. She holds a Ph.D. in Physics and works for more than 15 years at Capgemini.

Nicolas Rousseau, EVP and Chief Digital Engineering & Manufacturing Officer at Capgemini Engineering, drives business for “intelligent industries” by integrating product, software, data, and services. He leads a team that enables clients to innovate business models, optimize operations, and prepare for digital disruptions, enhancing customer interaction, R&D, engineering, manufacturing, and supply chains at the intersection of physical and digital worlds.

I lead a team of engineering experts at Synapse, whose mission is to develop innovative solutions to our clients’ toughest problems. Using multidisciplinary teams, we build products and complex systems that have a positive impact on people and the planet. I’m an architect in Synapse’s Sustainable Design and Lifecycle Assessment practice and am deeply involved in our Climate Tech and CDR portfolio.