{"id":2679,"date":"2025-08-17T23:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=2679"},"modified":"2025-08-17T23:15:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:15:24","slug":"sustainable-manufacturing-in-mikesbikes-introduction","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/article\/sustainable-manufacturing-in-mikesbikes-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Manufacturing in MikesBikes Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sustainable Manufacturing is a process which aims to produce goods with minimum<br>wastage, energy, and natural resources, while maximizing benefit to employees. Sustainable Manufacturing expenditure combines with your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/article\/corporate-social-responsibility-mikesbikes-introduction\/\">Social Responsibility<\/a><br>expenditure (under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/article\/brand-promotion-in-mikesbikes-introduction\/\">Brand Promotion<\/a>) to give you a CSR rating. <\/p>\n\n\n    \t\t<div class=\"hts-messages hts-messages--alert  hts-messages--withtitle hts-messages--withicon \"   >\r\n    \t\t\t<span class=\"hts-messages__title\">Important!<\/span>    \t\t\t    \t\t\t\t<p>\r\n    \t\t\t\t\tYour Sustainable Manufacturing choices do not affect your Brand Awareness.    \t\t\t\t<\/p>\r\n    \t\t\t    \t\t\t\r\n    \t\t<\/div><!-- \/.ht-shortcodes-messages -->\r\n    \t\t\n\n\n\n<p>Also note that the cost of your Sustainable Manufacturing options increases as you<br>increase the size of your factory and buy more capacity. For example, if you double<br>your factory capacity, then the costs below will also double.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The Sustainable Manufacturing screen is multi-select, so you can choose multiple<br>options. Click on an option to select or deselect it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"663\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-16-1024x663.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-16-1024x663.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-16-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-16-768x497.png 768w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-16-50x32.png 50w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-16-60x39.png 60w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-16-100x65.png 100w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-16.png 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Remember to check your Live Forecast area at the right of the screen to ensure that<br>you can afford everything you have selected as each option has a cost. Your Forecast CSR Rating and Sustainability Expenditure also update as you change<br>your selections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"542\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-17-1024x542.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-17-1024x542.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-17-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-17-768x406.png 768w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-17-50x26.png 50w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-17-60x32.png 60w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-17-100x53.png 100w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-17.png 1476w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sustainable Manufacturing is a process which aims to produce goods with minimumwastage, energy, and natural resources, while maximizing benefit to employees. Sustainable Manufacturing expenditure combines with your Social Responsibilityexpenditure (under Brand Promotion) to give you a CSR rating. Also note that the cost of your Sustainable Manufacturing options increases as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[22],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-2679","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-mikesbikes-introduction-year-three"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/2679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/2679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2686,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/2679\/revisions\/2686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}