PRODUCT SUSTAINABILITY SERVICES
NEW PRODUCT INTRODUCTION
Partnering for Sustainability
Meeting your sustainability goals efficiently requires evaluating every aspect of your operations—especially your product development, supply chain, and manufacturing operations. Benchmark offers Product Sustainability Services integrated across your products’ lifecycle to deliver measurable results, balanced with product features, quality, and time-to-market goals. Benchmark’s advanced engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain expertise make us the perfect partner to integrate sustainability into your current products and product roadmaps.
Are You Ready To Turn Your Idea Into A Reality?
Benchmark’s proven approach to managing new product introduction is repeatable, scalable, and dependable. We believe in transparency and delivering on time. By staging checkpoints throughout your product’s lifecycle, we produce empirical evidence at each stage that appropriate actions are completed to ensure the quality and reliability of your product, program, or device.
Simplifying Sustainability
Benchmark is committed to sustainability, developing and following a rigorous ESG strategy to further build sustainable processes and operations across our global operations. Our Product Sustainability Services support your ESG journey by improving your products’ environmental impact across the product lifecycle. Leveraging Benchmark’s Creative Workshop process to holistically evaluate your product and its supply chain, we work with you to develop a package of engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing process improvements. Together, we’ll develop an action plan that significantly impacts your overall sustainability footprint—all while supporting your bottom line with efficient, cost-effective implementation.
From Initial Build To Full-Scale Production
Whether you bring a new product into initial production or transfer to a new location or geography, Benchmark’s project management processes proactively mitigate your risks and strategically plan the fastest path to market.
Designing for Sustainability
We draw from our broad engineering expertise to meet your diverse product sustainability goals. Our team of skilled engineers can help you:
- decrease power consumption, including achieving Energy Star ratings
- utilize recycled, recyclable, or biobased materials
- provide software updates for cybersecurity and system maintenance that extend the life of your product
- utilize modular design and end-user repairability strategies to improve serviceability, extending the product lifecycle and reducing waste
- implement “low carbon” alternative components, subassemblies, and assemblies
Disciplined Processes, Highest Quality
At Benchmark, we tailor our NPI strategy to address your goals, incorporating strategies to proactively reduce your risks and strategically plan the quickest path to commercialization.
We execute this plan using a host of organizational and information-sharing tools:
- Matrix Organization – Separate Program Management and Resource Teams
- Enterprise-wide Daptiv™ Project Management System
- Weekly Resource Allocation Meeting
- Program Milestone and Deliverables Tracking
- Extensive Templates and Forms
- Agile Configuration Management
- CATSWeb for Corrective / Preventative Action
Developing a Sustainable Supply Chain
Our supply chain team can help you identify opportunities to reduce the overall environmental impacts of the components used in your products. We can optimize the Green House Gas (GHG) footprint of product packaging and shipping logistics. Our Product Sustainability Services help you:
- implement reuseable product packaging to reduce packaging cost and environmental impact
- incorporate refurbished components and subassemblies to reduce product carbon footprint and cost
- identify sustainable sources of raw materials and components, and seamlessly scale to volume production
- build relationships with suppliers to reduce environmental impact throughout the value chain
- partner with your sourcing team to create sustainable distribution solutions, advancing toward net-zero goals
Optimizing Manufacturing and Lifecycle Management
How your product is manufactured can have a significant impact on your overall GHG emissions. Leveraging repair and refurbishment services reduces waste by giving new life to obsolete or end-of-life products. Repair and refurbishment can support your bottom line by keeping products in the field, generating service and subscription revenue, and reducing manufacturing costs.
Our skilled technicians evaluate, repair, and refurbish your products to ensure they meet the highest standards of quality and functionality. Within the manufacturing and aftermarket phases of your product’s life, we help you:
- optimize the product and supply chain design for circularity
- realize new sources of revenue from existing products
- reduce product obsolescence by extending your product lifespan
- reduce or eliminate landfill waste
