Environmental Assessment and Life Cycle Collaboration integrated in E-Business Solutions

Author

Kuhrke, Benjamin ; Feickert, Stefan ; Abele, Eberhard ; Clesle, Frank-Dieter

Author_Institution

Inst. of Production Manage. Technol. & Machine Tools, Darmstadt Univ. of Technol.

fYear

2005

Firstpage

356

Lastpage

360

Abstract

The present legislation of the European Union as well as the environmental responsibility will increase the number of companies, who want to execute Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) of their product in order to full fill future legislative requirements or to improve the environmental soundness of their products. The current instruments for LCAs are only isolated solutions and not integrated in the product development processes. The integration into the day to day development work can only be realised by using information and data which is already kept in the company. This article describes an approach for an LCA Tool integrated into the SAP E-Business Solutions

Keywords

environmental management; legislation; product life cycle management; E-business solutions; European Union; environmental assessment; legislation; life cycle assessments; life cycle collaboration; product development; Collaboration; Collaborative tools; Companies; Environmental management; Health and safety; ISO standards; Information retrieval; Machine tools; Production management; Supply chains; E-Business Solutions; Life Cycle Assessment; SAP; Software Tool;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2005. Eco Design 2005. Fourth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0081-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619246

Filename

1619246