About
Analyze, design, innovate and sustain.
A sustainability assessment tool for business and product development professionals.
- ecoCompare
- Lifecycle Designer
- Live Charts
- Scenario Manager
- Bill of Materials
- Materials and Processes
- Cradle to Grave Analysis
- Compliance Navigator
- Lifecycle Reporting
ecoCompare
Instant Comparisions
Compare two or more materials side by side to determine indicative life cycle environmental performance. Want to know which processes or transport modes generate the least CO2 emissions? Keep ecoCompare by your side throughout the product development process.
Lifecycle Designer
Guided lifecycle thinking
Lifecycle Designer allows you to instantly analyze, modify and prioritize your design choices across the entire product life cycle. Generate striking product sustainability reports for clients, project partners and stakeholders.
Live Charts
Live visual feedback on your design decisions
Live Charts provides real-time visual and quantitive analysis of the environmental impacts of your design decisions, providing the designer or environmental professional with instant feedback on the scale and sensitivity of impacts.
Scenario Manager
Create, Clone and Compare your Product Design Scenarios
Lifecycle Designer is a scenario modelling tool for product designs. It allows dozens of different product design decisions to be efficiently explored, evaluated and compared for lifecycle environmental impacts. Cloning of existing product designs allows for quick exploration of different product design decisions that can be visually and quantitatively compared together to understand the impact scale and sensitivity of those decisions.
Bill of Materials Import Export
Quickly and securely get design data in and out of Product Ecology
We understand that an LCA-oriented design tool such as Product Ecology, is one of several of stages in your design process. We let you quickly, securely and easily import and export your bill of material. This allows for rapid provisioning of existing designs in Product Ecology and for designers, engineers and manufacturers to use the tool as an initial screening phase that feeds into the downstream design processes.
Materials and Processes
Manufacturing impact analysis
Product Ecology allows for simple and complex manufacturing processes and materials to be modelled and analysed for environmental impacts.
Distribution, Consumption & End of Life
Complete the Cradle-to-Grave picture
Lifecycle analysis means taking a cradle-to-grave view of your product design decisions. How the product is transported; how it consumes electricity, water and other consumables; and how it is disposed of are all vital parts of the sustainability assessment process.
Compliance Navigator
Guided compliance insights
Compliance Navigator allows you to review your product against relevant regulations, legislation and standards. Its interactive wizard leads you through specific requirements and creates preliminary assessment reports for EU RoHS, EU Batteries and EPEAT.
Lifecycle Reporting
Communicate and disseminate your lifecycle assessments
Product Ecology provides comprehensive visual and quantitive reports on your designs and their lifecycle impacts. PDF exporting allows for dissemination of these reports to internal and external audiences to articulate the sustainability benefits of your designs.
A solution oriented and engaging tool to evaluate, achieve and implement your product sustainability strategies.
Any time, anywhere.
Web based tools
Accessible wherever you are
No downloads or desktop software
Why should you choose Product Ecology?
If you are committed to achieving sustainable outcomes, then Product Ecology is an essential part of your implementation toolbox.
Make informed decisions
Make informed and responsible ecodesign decisions based on life cycle thinking and comprehensive LCIA data. Product ecology is underpinned by ecoinvent data (v2) supplied by the Swiss Centre for Life Cycle Inventories. Ecoinvent is a Competence Centre of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich.
Report generation
Generate compelling reports as PDFs for clients, colleagues, project partners and interested stakeholders
Instant comparisons
Instantly compare materials, processes, transport modes and end-of-life options with the unique and powerful ecoCompare™ tool.
Compliance navigator
Identify and understand specific regulatory requirements for your product and its intended market(s) with Compliance Navigator, the preliminary compliance review tool.
Subscriptions to suit your needs & budget
Choose from four simple monthly or annual subscriptions to suit your specific needs, budget and scale of operations. Just sign up, pay your subscription, and commence using it. It’s yours to use. No consultants, no downloads, no wasteful manuals, CDs or packaging.
Who uses Product Ecology?
Product Ecology has global relevance. It has been developed for a diverse range of users – from individual design practitioners and consultants, through to SMEs, OEMs and global brands. Individuals, companies and associations, are all Product Ecology users:
- Industrial designers, product developers, design engineers, applied technologists
- Compliance and regulatory affairs professionals
- Procurement professionals, including facilities management
- Corporate sustainability and environmental professionals
- OEMs, brands, component manufacturers and technology providers
- Industry associations, trade bodies, professional institutes
- Non government organizations related to sustainable production and consumption, including fair-trade.
- Research institutions, universities, technical colleges, testing laboratories, consulting companies
- Educators and students covering disciplines such as design, engineering, applied technology, environmental science/studies, corporate environmental/sustainability management, business and marketing