EcoProIT

The project aims to provide production engineers a tool for detailed ecological footprint analyses, which are becoming more important in terms of marketing and legislation.

[1] A published report by MIT in 2011 showed companies thought that environmental sustainable strategy is, or will be, vital to be competitive.

The up to date chain gives a possibility to show the consumers that the company makes progress in lowering the environmental impact.

Every improvement is delivered directly to the customers, and the new marketing possibility show what the production department is doing for the environment.

All information that is produced by the tool should be able to be uploaded to the central EcoProIT Database that stores it in a standardized way to be able to be used by other companies.

The problems with ABC is that it requires a lot of data for a qualitative and accurate allocation of the cost from the resources.

During a run In a DES environment it is easy to grab lot of detailed results needed for accurate allocation.

[3][4] When LCA is included in a production simulation model, there is a bigger need for output information to perform the calculations.

The basis is to divide the calculations of environmental impact into 4 levels[6] The main sponsor for the project is ProViking[7] accompanied by a few big industrial partners.