Evaluation of methods used for life-cycle assessments in Discrete Event Simulation
Paper i proceeding, 2012
The incitements from society for life-cycle assessment (LCA) and credible ecolables are ever-increasing
and often important for successful marketing of products. Robust assessment methods are important for
comparable, useful and trustworthy LCAs and ecolables. In order to improve the metrics of a product’s
ecolable, is it important to fully understand its production system. Discrete Event Simulation (DES)
models are able to provide more detailed information than traditional LCA approaches. Therefore,
methods used to combining LCA in DES have been developed during the last decade. The combined
approaches have matured and the experiences grown. This article compares six previous cases and aims to
summarize and discuss their experiences to aid future development. The results show where it is
specifically important to make good decisions throughout the modeling methodology, for example goal
and scope definition, trustworthy input data for sensitive parts, and communicable impact categories.
LCA.
sustainability
discrete event simulation
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