2021 SUSTAINABILITY PROGRESS REPORT | Cummins Inc. 24 ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRESS // Cummins in 2021 began laying the foundation for meeting its goal of a lifecycle plan for every part, achieving two important steps the company can build on moving forward. In addition to building support for the goal and establishing the employee committees to lead the effort, Cummins established a Circular Lifecycle Design Standard. Design standards serve as a roadmap for engineers as they put together part designs. The new standard includes steps like review by the Materials Science function to ensure a part uses the most appropriate materials and processing. The second major step was creating an optimization center with the powerful software engineers need to determine such things as where strength and durability are important in a design and where parts may be able to use less material without compromising performance. The standard and optimization center were critical to get in place before the company begins reporting on its overall progress toward meeting the goal. Cummins uses to how they are processed, to ensuring raw materials can be used again for another life. Leaders hope the goal will optimize Cummins’ resource use, as well as enable the company’s low-carbon transformation, while continuing to power customer success and maintain the economic benefits society depends on. COMPANY BUILDS FOUNDATION TO MEET LIFECYCLE PLANNING GOAL As Cummins looks toward its 2050 aspirational target of nothing wasted, the company knows it will require a shift in how Cummins thinks about materials and waste. Wasting nothing is also about being even more vigilant in using materials at their highest value for as long as possible. The goal is ultimately about waste minimization through material efficiency and reducing the company’s use of natural resources by design, from the raw materials GOAL 5: Create a circular lifecycle plan for every part to use less, use better, use again. DOING OUR PART BY THE NUMBERS 400 MILLION Metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) that will be avoided if Cummins meets all of its 2030 goals. Cummins Materials Science function can provide important insight into the best materials for a particular part.