Sustainability Enhancements

View carbon data for consumables

In addition to providing carbon data for the material from which a component is made, aPriori now provides carbon data for materials that are consumed during the manufacturing process.

You can now see data for Consumable carbon in aPriori.

Consumable carbon is the carbon impact of additional consumable materials that are used during the manufacturing process, that are not the primary material.

You can view Consumable carbon in the Manufacturing Carbon section of the Sustainability tab.

In this example, you can see the consumable carbon data for the Hard Chrome Plating process:

You can also see the data for consumable carbon in Formula Dependencies.

In version 2023 R1, aPriori calculated carbon related to consumables and displayed that data in the Formula Dependencies dialog under either Material Carbon or Other Process Carbon, depending on the process group.

aPriori 2023 R1 SP1 uses a new process carbon data model. Now, data on consumable carbon is displayed in the Formula Dependencies dialog as Consumable Process Carbon under Process Carbon. You can inspect the Consumable Process Carbon using the Formula Dependencies dialog.

This example is for the Fiber Laser Cut process:

Scenarios costed in 2023 R1 but not recosted in 2023 R1 SP1 that have material carbon calculated for processes other than the primary utilization process will not show all their process carbon in the Manufacturing Carbon section of the Sustainability tab. This is because in 2023 R1, the assumption for the calculations was that the material carbon of those processes was the processing carbon. In 2023 R1 SP1 and later that carbon is now calculated as Consumable Process Carbon.

Depending on the process, consumables may or may not become part of the final product. This is helpful to know when considering if carbon impact is part of the final product or related solely to the manufacture of the final product.

Examples of consumables that become part of the final product:

• Powder coat

• Wet coat

• Decorative Chrome Plating

• Hard Chrome Plating

• Nickel Plating

• Zinc Nickel Plating

• Zinc Plating

Examples of consumables that do not become part of the final product:

• Hot Isostatic Pressing

• Oxyfuel Cut

• Fiber Laser Cut

• Sand casting core and moldmaking processes

Easier to see direction and value of carbon changes

In the Sustainability tab trend arrows and tooltips indicate if, and by how much, carbon values have increased or decreased.

In the carbon summary section of the Sustainability tab, trend arrows next to the values indicate if the carbon values increased or decreased after the most recent costing. Tooltip text for each arrow shows the value of each change.