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Muir AI’s new supply trace feature enables rapid queries of supply chains enabling product designers, sustainability, and supply chain professionals to quickly identify where harmful chemicals, such as PFAS, pose potential threats whether known or unknown.
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Recent news of a class action lawsuit against W.L. Gore & Associates, the makers of the popular Gore-Tex, has sent shockwaves through the outdoor great and apparel industry. Fears of greenwashing have plagued apparel manufacturers in recent years, and while many companies are working to eliminate environmentally harmful materials like PFAS manually from their supply chains, concern still remains for the unlikely sources of harmful chemicals.
PFAS, or Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, is a forever-chemical that is known to be harmful to the liver and immune system and can be linked to low birth weight, birth defects, and delayed development. Manufacturers historically applied PFAS during the manufacturing phase of various household goods, apparel, and other consumer goods for it’s chemical properties that offer resistance to water, oil, and heat. But recently, following extensive research it has been found that PFAS can leak from those goods into the water supply, ground and even into the human body. Because of this, the use of PFAS has become heavily scrutinized and many companies have gone to great lengths to eliminate the use of the forever-chemical from supply chains.
Muir’s new feature “Supply Trace” adds a new level of transparency into once opaque supply chains. Take a nonstick skillet for example. While PFAS is a common substance found in non-stick cookware, identifying at which step in the supply chain it was applied can be an onerous process.
With Muir’s Product Intelligence platform, users can conduct rapid searches of their supply chain, materials, and submaterials to quickly identify which suppliers to engage in meaningful harmful chemical abatement.
Using simple procurement type inputs, Muir’s Product Intelligence platform maps materials and manufacturing processes to create rapid synthetic bills of materials for almost any sort of product.
Professionals tasked with eliminating PFAS have the opportunity to pinpoint previously obscured areas of their supply chains through searching for known forever-chemicals with Supply Trace.
Utilizing Muir’s proprietary material and manufacturing modeling and pairing models. Users can quickly identify where, when and how PFAS chemicals were used in the manufacturing process of their products both at the specific tier in the supply chain, by subcomponent and in each region it could have been used.
Supply Trace closely aligns with Muir’s mission to help manufacturers and companies better understand how their products are being made, what materials go into those products, and how sustainable those products are.
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