Customized automated modelling and evaluation in SimaPro
ESU has developed an approach to automatically calculate LCA, PCF and EPD results. Therefore, we can import data for several hundreds or thousands of products and services from your data management software to SimaPro, calculate environmental impact scores and feed them back to your data management software.
Advantages
- High data-security: Data is stored locally and software is installed /runs on-premise.
- Full transparency and access to up-and downstream processes/background-data
- Full control over data for the whole product life cycle due to linking to ecoinvent unit processes -->no black box as in aggregated "system processes"
- In-depth analysis through comparisons, hotspot-, scenario- and uncertainty-assessments.
Proposal
Typically, companies produce or sell different products and services and therefore also need different inputs and related data structures and nomenclature for these inputs materials. Additionally, they are interested in different impact indicators and therefore need different calculation routines e.g. for automated EPD- or PCF-reporting. This means, a customer-specific implementation is needed to automatically calculate LCA results. For such a customized implementation, a 3-step approach is proposed:
Step 1: Proof of concept
In a kick-off meeting goal and scope of the automatisation project are defined. Then, ESU-services receives a data export from your ERP-, CAD- or other data management software and adjusts their macro-tool and a matching-list for automated modelling and results-reporting. The results and findings are then presented in a follow-up meeting.
Step 2: Refinement of automatic import
The Macro-/Excel-Tool is extended with additional matching and functionalities for direct use by the customer. This is tested with a bulk-import of e.g. 10 products /product types. Additionally, templates for reporting might be generated and all necessary steps for the usage of the tool will be documented in a user manual.
Step 3 (optional): Full automatization
If steps 1 and 2 work as requested, the SimaPro COM-interface might be used directly for bidirectional exchange of data and results with SimaPro. To set this up, collaboration with experts for the customers data management software / ERP-system is required.
Please contact us to discuss your specific needs and to get an offer.
