The next is an excerpt from our FY24 Function Report, celebrating 40 years of impression at Cisco. Knowledge and metrics are reflective of Cisco’s fiscal 12 months 2024, ending on July 31, 2024.
Round design means designing merchandise, packaging, and methods that allow reuse, decrease environmental impacts, drive innovation, and understand worth for our stakeholders. We design our merchandise and packaging with circularity in thoughts, aligning them to 25 Round Design Ideas organized throughout 5 focus areas.
We developed a round design analysis methodology and web-based software to assist us observe progress towards our round design purpose. Each new product and packaging design have to be scored within the analysis software and obtain a rating of a minimum of 75% earlier than its launch to manufacturing. A rating of 75% or increased represents substantial incorporation of our Round Design Ideas into our new merchandise and packaging and counts towards our round design purpose. We formalized processes and dashboards to assist and implement the necessary scoring requirement, leading to all new designs launched in fiscal 2024 being evaluated within the software.
Cisco’s merchandise are designed to convey our model of high quality and innovation. In fiscal 2024, Cisco up to date the economic design tips to include model necessities and Round Design Ideas, together with tips akin to avoiding the utilization of solely beauty and nonfunctional plastic elements and optimizing the product packaging. In fiscal 2025, we are going to evaluation the Round Design Ideas, methodology, and gear based mostly on key learnings, stakeholder suggestions, and exterior necessities, to determine alternatives to additional our efforts.
Pinnacle Awards
A cross-functional crew from Provide Chain and Engineering gained the Sustainability Impression Award on the 2024 Cisco Pinnacle Awards, the very best recognition of product and engineering innovation at Cisco, for serving to rework our firm technique and meaningfully accelerating Cisco and our prospects towards key environmental sustainability objectives.
Assessing Our Merchandise’ Environmental Impacts
A life cycle evaluation (LCA) is used to mannequin the environmental impacts of a product throughout a number of impression classes over the product life cycle, from cradle to grave. We use LCAs to quantify key environmental impacts of our merchandise, determine sizzling spots for steady product design and operational enchancment, and alternatives to scale back assets used all through our provide chain.
In fiscal 2024, to handle the necessity for LCAs throughout our product portfolio, we developed a scalable LCA mannequin together with environmental impression experiences aligned to the Worldwide Group for Standardization (ISO) 14040/44 requirements. The intent of this mannequin is to enhance the standard and reduce the resource-intensiveness of performing LCAs. It may be used for many Cisco {hardware} merchandise to handle inside and exterior stakeholder curiosity. With the massive variety of merchandise in our portfolio, we began through the use of this mannequin for consultant merchandise throughout Cisco product households. In fiscal 2024, we revealed our first LCA report utilizing the scalable LCA mannequin.
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