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TOOLS AND METHODS

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for Sustainable Product Development

How can you reduce your products’ environmental impact? Which materials, components and processes are critical from an environmental standpoint? By conducting life cycle assessments, you can measure products’ and services’ environmental footprint over their entire life cycle and identify potential for more efficient and effective use of raw materials and energy.

Data-driven analysis method to develop sustainable products

Life cycle assessments are an important tool for improving products’ sustainability. They enable data-driven assessment of the impact that design decisions have on the environment and climate. There are a variety of approaches and tools for conducting LCAs. Milani performs life cycle assessments for companies that are optimized to the needs of their Development and Design departments.

To that end, for each company Milani analyzes at a level of detail that enables confident, data-driven decisions to be made, all the while ensuring good design implementation. We also use a reduced version of a full life cycle assessment (known as the “screening LCA”) to identify and optimize the hotspots of a product’s environmental impact particularly quickly – without using many resources for the analysis.

Find hotspots – with repair index and variant comparison

A product’s durability depends to a large extent on whether it can be repaired. The measurement methods are becoming increasingly common. In France, a repair index is even required by law. Milani performs a holistic analysis of product repairability and identifies hotspots in the product architecture.

Milani compares different concepts and design variants with respect to their environmental impact, enabling companies to make the right decisions early on in the product development process and to take effective action to increase product sustainability.

Environmental product declaration

Efforts are underway around the world to make the environmental performance of goods and services comparable, so that companies and public administrations can compare their suppliers and select the most sustainable offer. Such standardized reporting is called an “Environmental Product Declaration”. The EPD methodology includes mapping all the relevant environmental aspects from a life-cycle perspective.