{"id":2258,"date":"2008-06-02T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Going-green-with-BCT\/ba-p\/333615"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:17:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:17:45","slug":"going-green-with-bct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/going-green-with-bct\/","title":{"rendered":"Going green with BCT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><\/P><BLOCKQUOTE>   <P>&#8220;Be the change you want to see in the world&#8221;<\/P>    <P>Mahatma Gandhi<\/P> <\/BLOCKQUOTE>  <P>An interesting and brief presentation this morning by Juergen Hilleman the CEO of&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adanos.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">BCT<\/A>.&nbsp; He made some quick points about climate change and bio-diversity and then made the point that PLM is going to be a key for manufacturers to address environmental challenges.&nbsp; <\/P>  <P>Here are a few points he made that I think we&#8217;ll hear from a variety of presentations all week:<\/P>  <UL>   <LI>Avoid physical validation <\/LI>    <LI>Commonization and reuse are critical <\/LI>    <LI>Design recovery value into the products at the outset <\/LI> <\/UL>  <P>I&#8217;m interested in hearing more about designing recovery into products.&nbsp; PLM is the solution to managing the BOM of products, staying in compliance and having an effective end of life strategy for manufactured goods.&nbsp; The days of piles of obsolete cell phones going to a landfill are going to be over and PLM is how manufacturers will manage this process.<\/P>  <P>There&#8217;s going to be a lot more coming this week.&nbsp; And I&#8217;ll be paying careful attention to presenters mentioning &#8220;green&#8221; product and manufacturing strategies.<\/P>  <DIV class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:940af021-17a4-44ff-a716-f7ea20afde4f\" style=\"padding-right: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <A href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/plmconam08\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\">plmconam08<\/A><\/DIV>  <DIV class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:cf81d1a9-fd98-4d4f-81cb-6c734cf3a41f\" style=\"padding-right: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <A href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/green manufacturing\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\">green manufacturing<\/A><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Be the change you want to see in the world&#8221;      Mahatma Gandhi      An interesting and brief presentation this morning by Juergen Hilleman the CEO of&nbsp; BCT.&nbsp; He made some quick points abou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2259,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/2259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}