LCA Software for Product Design
LCA software that supports the creative product design process
Each step of an LCA has been reimagined through the lens of product design. We have created new tools, methods, and visualizations to help product design professionals engineer environmental impact out of their products with less effort and in less time.
FEATURES AND BENEFITS
EXPLORE HOT SPOTS EARLIER THAN EVER BEFORE USING UNDERSPECIFICATION
Underspecification, an innovative approach to LCA, is useful when information about a product — how it's made, transported, used, or disposed of — is still unknown or exploratory.
Underspecification allows you to model the known unknowns and iterate based on these models during early design stages.
This gives you the earliest possible look at data-driven insights to guide your design decisions.
EXPLORE THE MULTIVERSE OF PRODUCT IMPACT WITH MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS
Monte Carlo analysis is an analytical approach to "what if" scenarios to gain a more informed view of how unsettled data affects the outcome of your product's impact. Run 100s or 1,000s of scenarios to focus faster on what matters most in Best, Worst, and Most Likely scenarios.
This paints an early picture of the risks and uncertainties of your product(s).
COMPARE ACROSS IMPACT CATEGORIES TO ITERATE DESIGNS
Understand how productive decisions compare considering multiple environmental impact categories. And use scientifically robust One Score Graphs (stochastic multi-attribute analysis) to understand the probability that each of the comparison product, parts, or sub-assemblies is the most sustainable considering a range of Impact Categories.
By default, we include the following impact categories in the LCIA model:
- Cumulative Energy Demand (ecoinvent)
- Global Warming Potential (IPCC 100a GWP)
- Ecosystem Quality (ReCiPe (H) endpoint)
- Human Health (ReCiPe (H) endpoint)
- Natural Resources (ReCiPe (H) endpoint)
- Water Use (ReCiPe (H) midpoint)
This allows insightful comparison of the relative impacts of your product designs and allows you to focus on which impact categories matter most to your business and customers.
COLLABORATE WITH OTHERS
New application interfaces and flexible software design allow you to share your LCA models with co-workers, suppliers, and customers to co-create faster resulting in stronger product design collaborations. Integrate with external platforms like AutoDesk to streamline your creative process by directly importing your Bill of Materials into MatterPD.
This provides a streamlined process and a simple way to communicate with stakeholders as your product design moves towards final specification.
SPECIFY CONFIDENTLY WITH WORLD-CLASS ECOINVENT DATABASES
The ecoinvent database (our default inventory which uses the cut-off approach) is the most comprehensive, consistent, and transparent Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) database for environmental assessments. Right-scale your access by selecting from tens-of-thousands of processes inventories.
This gives you the confident of rigorous science and transparent data.
