Printed circuit boards (PCB), which perform essential functions in electronic devices, including displays and sensors, need a lot of energy to create. Moreover, traditional PCB manufacturing processes generate large amounts of liquid waste and high carbon emissions. Still, there are more environmentally friendly ways of producing PCBs, including additive manufacturing processes that use inkjet and laser printing, while fully biodegradable PCBs are also on the horizon

For the $5 trillion electronics industry, electronics manufacturers, Munuch-based Luminovo builds a SaaS solution that brings together the full material and production costing process. The company is aiming to upending an industry that’s been mired in the previous millennium for a long time. Replacing manual parts of the process with automated tools, it enables the folks creating products to focus on what they do best, rather than running an error-prone endless tennis match of Excel documents. One of the big shifts in electronics has been the global supply chain, which is still limping along since 2020. Without live insights and projections for what is about to happen, electronic engineers are fumbling in the dark, at best facing delays, at worst facing expensive redesigns or product cancellations

The German startup connects current, siloed processes to improve real-time collaboration and prevent mistakes, which can lead to billions of electronic waste and enable productivity gains