Why using the SimaPro life cycle assessment software?
SimaPro enables high-quality life cycle assessment analysis for products, services and entire companies. The LCA software can be used to analyse environmental impacts, such as greenhouse gas emissions, along the product life cycle - from raw material extraction to processing, distribution, use and disposal.
SimaPro offers the following advantages:
- A wide range of life cycle inventory databases and assessment methods, including the latest version of the ecoinvent database.
- Databases with standardised processes, i.e. with transparent upstream chain, meta-information and source details.
- Existing datasets can be copied and customised for specific requirements or created from scratch.
- Network/Sankey and bar charts as well as inventory and process contribution diagrams.
- SimaPro’s methodology is consistent and transparent, allowing you to easily zoom in on your results, throughout the different stages of your LCA.
- Parametrisation, multi-user import/export and interface functions enable efficient modelling and collaboration.
- Technical support and database updates for the registered users
Typical use cases for SimaPro are:
- Life Cycle Assessments for products and organizations (LCA and OLCA, in accordance with ISO 14040 and 14044, EN 15804 and/or other standards)
- Environmental Product Declarations (EPD), in accordance with EN 15804 and specific product category rules (PCR)
- Product Environmental Footprints (PEF), in accordance with specific category rules (PEFCR)
- Product and Corporate Carbon Footprints (PCF and CCF)
- Corporate Reporting (ESG-numbers according to GRI, CSRD/NFRD and ESRS)
- Life cycle analyses with a focus on other topics like Social Hotspots (S-LCA, e.g. including child labour, occupational accidents) or financial costs (Life Cycle Costing, LCC).
Further information to find the SimaPro version for your needs:
- Professional Licenses: Licenses for professional SimaPro users in consulting, companies, administration and research institutes
- Educational Licenses: Licenses for students and lecturers, as well as for doctoral, bachelor's or master's theses
- Databases and methods: Available databases and evaluation methods for all SimaPro licences
- Additional applications: Online applications and add-ons for simplified/automated work
- Training and coaching: Guidance for working with SimaPro and doing LCA case studies.
Contact us to find your LCA software:
Contact us if you would like a non-binding quotation or to find out more about the application options.
Alternatively, you can first convince yourself of the advantages of the SimaPro software in a demo version.
