ECODESIGN+
- Realistically calculate life cycles. Use state-of-the-art environmental data through the integrated Ecoinvent database to analyze product life cycles in class and directly compare different variants.
- Make well-founded ecological design decisions early on! Show students how early ecological choices can be made—without complex LCA software or lengthy training.
- Ready to use immediately, with no installation required. The web-based solution works with all common browsers—just log in and get started.
- Make the CO₂ footprint transparent. Visualize emission-relevant steps in product design and demonstrate how targeted measures can reduce emissions.
- Full transparency for your CO₂ footprint. See exactly where emissions occur and how targeted design measures reduce your footprint.
- Quick Decarbonization Analyses Determine the Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) of your products in just a few minutes, even without complete lifecycle data. Make informed and sustainable design decisions early on.
- Targeted Product Optimization ECODESIGN+ automatically identifies the major emission drivers across the entire lifecycle and provides specific action recommendations – from material selection to manufacturing.
- Easy Variant Comparisons With the integrated “What-if” function, you can compare product variants and identify CO₂ savings potential already during the concept and development phase.
- Current Data Foundation Benefit from up-to-date and reliable environmental data thanks to direct access to the Ecoinvent database.
- Receive a personalized evaluation with concrete recommendations.
- Learn basic modeling approaches and create your own PCFs in the future – efficiently and practically.
“With other tools, you quickly get lost in datasets and parameters – ECODESIGN+ is much more user-friendly. You are guided through the process step by step and quickly receive useful results without compromising on quality. We were able to see immediately which process steps really matter and where we should start, and we also received suggested design measures for improvement. With the support of ECODESIGN company GmbH, we were able to model our main product without any difficulties.”
Melanie Losbichler, MSc, Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement, Lottmann Fensterbänke GmbH
ECODESIGN+ is a super intuitive tool that makes it easy to calculate the PCF. We were able to get started almost immediately and quickly saw where the biggest — and sometimes quite surprising — emission drivers are. This helped us adjust the right levers straight away. Exactly what you need in product development when decisions have to be made quickly.
DI Harald Schöfberger, Managing Director, Eisenbeiss GmbH
With ECODESIGN+, we offer you a web-based tool for calculating and improving the PCF.
ECODESIGN+ is a web application for calculating and improving the Product Carbon Footprint (PCF). The software follows a life cycle approach and enables reliable decisions to be made early on in the product development process – even though often not all the data is known and defined yet.
The environmental profile achieved by a product is displayed in real time. The visualisation by means of diagrams and contribution analyses with details down to the individual components and assemblies, as well as the identification of relevant design measures, make ECODESIGN+ an indispensable tool for implementing Ecodesign in product development.
We model your product with ECODESIGN+ and you continue to work with it and improve the PCF.
You are planning a new product or a new product model and would like to take the environmental impact into account during product development. With ECODESIGN+, we will be happy to create a model for you that shows you all the details of your product’s carbon footprint and shows you how you can improve your product.
As ECODESIGN+ is a web application, we can hand over the product model to you once we have completed the modelling and you can continue to use it and quickly calculate the environmental impact of possible improvements.
ECODESIGN+ works with the current data from the Ecoinvent.
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Calculate and communicate the PCF
ECODESIGN+ enables product developers, designers, technical experts and students to calculate, understand, compare, improve and communicate the product carbon footprint of products. The comprehensive environmental database Ecoinvent and established procedures for complete life cycle assessment (ISO 14040/44) are used for the calculations.
In an easy-to-understand overview on one page, you will find all the results, the total PCF, how this is broken down into the life cycle phases and which components and product parts have the largest share.
Reduce the PCF using Ecodesign checklists
Product developers in particular benefit from the extensive functions of ECODESIGN+. This includes evaluating the environmental performance of the current product design, similar products or variants.
ECODESIGN + proposes targeted strategies and specific Ecodesign measures based on the environmental assessment so that you can implement improvements in the development process.
Compare the PCF of product variants
The variant comparison function allows you to copy the created product model and create a variant in the copy, which can be used to check possible design changes for their environmental impact long before they are actually implemented. With this what-if view, you can quickly arrive at a new, improved environmental performance of the product to be developed.
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