CPM

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CPM
Center for Environmental Assessment of Product
and Material Systems
Chalmers University of Technology
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Chalmers

• Chalmers University of Technology is a
  multifaceted academic and postgraduate university
  that conducts research and education across a
  wide front within the areas of technology,
  natural science and architecture.
• We are internationally forerunning in the areas
  of bioscience, information technology,
  environmental science and nanotechnology
• Chalmers strives formidably to constantly develop
  by means of opening doors to the outside world
  and encouraging innovative thinking. We maintain
  close and fruitful cooperative relationships with
  the business sector and society in general.
• Chalmers was founded in 1829 as the result of a
  donation from the Director of the Swedish East
  India Company, William Chalmers. His forwardly
  optimistic motto, which remains ours today, is
  "Avancez!

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• CPM is a national competence center at Chalmers
  University of Technology. CPM is jointly funded
  by Industry, VINNOVA, the Swedish Agency for
  Innovation Systems and Chalmers

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CPM

• The interface between the University and the
  Industry

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Overall goals

• to prevent and decrease environmental impact
  associated with products.
• to gather and reinforce the Swedish competence
  within sustainable product development at a high
  international level.
• to provide industry and society with relevant
  methods and support for implementation of
  environmental aspects in decisions regarding
  products and materials.

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Industry partners

• ABB AB
• Akzo Nobel AB
• Bombardier Transportation
• Duni AB
• IKEA
• ITT Flygt
• SCA Hygiene Products
• Stora Enso AB
• Tetra Pak

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• Cross functional also at the University

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Participating institutions at Chalmers

• CEI Chalmers Environmental Initiative
• IMI Industrial Environmental Informatics
• ESA Environmental System Analysis
• Physical Resource Theory
• Dept. of Transportation and Logistics
• Computing Science

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9 years of development
Sustainability Implementation Communication Commer
cialization
Broader scope Implementation Communication
DataMethods Tools for Implementation Tools for
Communication
Stage 4
Stage 3
Database structureDataHow to perform LCA
Stage 2
Stage 1
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Structure
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DANTES one of 7 projects

• Environment and economy
• Integrated environmental information system
• Strategies and indicators for sustainability
• How sustainable is the sustainability work of the
  companies?
• DANTES
• Sustainable technology development processes
• Sustainable logistics

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Critical Success Factors

• Open exchange of information, knowledge and
  results between member companies.
• Cross functional cooperation with the University
• Common focus on sustainable development
• Proactive approach
• Internationally well recognized
• Easy access to results
• www.cpm.chalmers.se
• www.dantes.info

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The knowledge transfer process
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Knowledge Transfer
Research Process
Industrial DevelopmentProcess
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Knowledge Transfer
Research Process
IndustrialProcess
Knowledge transfer area
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DANTES next step

• CPM aims at hosting the DANTES projects for the
  next 2 years
• Further development of the content at DANTES
  website including
• New tools
• More strategies from a wider range of industry
• Documents and reports
• Plan and organize maintenance after 2007

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Example of DANTES results from Industrial
Environmental Informatics (IMI)Markus Erlandsson
IMI Industrial Environmental Informatics
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IMI performs industry-applied research within
DANTES

• DANTES is not a research project
• Experiences and results have been analysed and
  structured industry applied research
• Identify environmental information needed for
  decisions
• Analyze and structure how different tools and
  methods are used within companies
• Analyze and structure how environmental
  information is communicated within and between
  companies

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Information perspective on DANTES strategies
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Strategies developed by IMI

• IMI has developed strategies based on earlier
  work in the area of industrial environmental
  informatics
• Two strategies published on www.dantes.info are
  based on results from projects run together with
  the railway industry
• Supply chain
• EPIs in supply chain communication
• RD
• Design for environment

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EPIs in supply chain communication
How to find the strategy
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Background to the strategy

• RAVEL (Rail Vehicle Eco-Efficient Design) project
  
• EC-funded project running 1998-2001
• A Design for Environment (DfE) methodology was
  developed
• REPID project
• EC-funded project running 2002-2004
• An implementation of the RAVEL results
• Partners
• UIC (Trade association for railway operators)
• UNIFE (Trade association for railway
  manufacturers)
• Bombardier Transportation
• Alstom Transportation
• Deutsche Bahn
• SEMCON Sweden
• Industrial Environmental Informatics, Chalmers

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Target groups and benefits

• Persons involved in the purchasing process in a
  manufacturing industry
• Provides a language for communication of
  environmental performance within the supply chain
• Provides a structured method on how to measure
  environmental performance of products

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Communication and measurement of environmental
performance

• This strategy describes how a common language can
  be established and utilized in the communication
  between different parts in the supply chain
• Provides a connection between market requirements
  and the product design
• Communication of environmental requirements and
  performance is based on measurable Environmental
  Performance Indicators (EPIs)

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Environmental Performance Indicators (EPIs)

• Quantitative expression of the environmental
  performance
• Criteria of indicators used in a DfE-system
• The indicators are measurable
• The indicators are able to control and can be
  influenced by the design process
• The indicators address important and well defined
  environmental issues
• The set of EPIs defined in the REPID project are
  defined
• in accordance with ISO 14031 Environmental
  Performance Evaluation
• based on environmental policy of rail operators
  and manufacturers

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Example of a set of EPIs
Representing environmental impact on the
production, use and end of life phase of a product
Example
Indicator name Fraction recycled
material Description Monitor the weight fraction
of recycled materials in the product. The term
recycled means the material has been recycled
through material recycling.
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EPIs for communication of environmental
performance
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Experiences

• Through the REPID project, a common language has
  been created allowing a whole sector to
  communicate easier
• The railway industry spent much time and
  resources on the process and they are not yet
  finished
• Some of the EPIs developed within the railway
  industry have been a demand to use for several
  years
• Education programs need to be set up since all
  involved parties need to have a common
  understanding of the method and the EPIs

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Experiences
Standardisation within the railway industry
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Example of DANTES results from Environmental
system analysis (ESA) Environmental costs in
LCCBengt Steen
ESA - Environmental system analysis
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Why environmental costs in LCC?

• Environmental costs and benefits are significant
  issues for many companies
• LCC is a way of communicating product qualities
• Driving forces for internalising external
  environmental costs
• Polluter pays principle (PPP) or get the prices
  right
• Information society
• Institutionalisation
• Globalisation
• IPP
• Global Reporting Initiative, GRI

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External costs
) cost for CO2 in GHG trading 0.00941 EUR/kg
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Internal environmental costs
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Internal environmental costs
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LCC at DANTES info

• Reports on
• External Environmental costs in LCC
• State of the art of LCA and LCC tools
• LCC/LCA experience - developing and working with
  LCC tools
• Case studies
• Software
• LCC light
• Interpretation keys