Systems architecting for sustainability in high-tech industry : Canvas 2024 project report
report
For industry, including high-tech manufacturing industry and OEMs, it is foreseeable that new regulations will be stricter on environmental sustainability and circularity indicators. The cus-tomers (who are businesses themselves) will face the same regulations and will therefore increasingly push their suppliers to comply. To prepare for this foreseeable future, compa-nies should act now and integrate environmental sustainability in their development process. Environmental sustainability and circularity (ESC) are more than just yet another quality. Their problem scope extends beyond the technical system, including uncertain future regulations, changing market demands, and dependencies across the value chain. Introducing ESC therefore requires integrating ESC considerations throughout the architecture, the business, and the wider ecosystem. In this report, we show how to take the next steps in making environmental sustainability a key product aspect. Before, or in parallel with, applying and tailoring classical systems architecting and systems engineering methods, systems thinking techniques help in stakeholder alignment. We illustrate systems thinking can be uses to improve alignment among system architects and between system architects and R&D roles interfacing with the business. This paves the way for future alignments between R&D and business, logistics and manufacturing, and eventually with the external suppliers and companies in the value chain. In addition, we provide guidance for the early architecting phases for environmental aspects, especially for the roles of the architect and LCA assessment.
TNO Identifier
1002309
Publisher
TNO
Collation
24 p.