Adapting life cycle assessment to the partial product innovation phase

You want to carry out an environmental assessment of your modular innovation projects. This fact sheet will enable you to implement a simplified evaluation method in your company, enabling you to relate the environmental impacts of an innovative module to the complete product.

This fact sheet presents and explains a product modeling algorithm based on hierarchical ascending classification. Its use will require some theoretical grounding, but it offers a number of benefits.

• It allows you to learn more about the environmental impact of products.

• It's easy to use.

• It can be used to orientate design axes according to environmental results.