Abstract
This paper intends to describe the outline of the Eco Care Program (ECP) at the Siemens-Division Industry Solutions
and its implementation. ECP aims to embrace and to coordinate main activities within the product lifecycle
management (PLM) process considering both economic targets in terms of overall lifecycle costs as well as
energy efficiency and other important environmental issues in the innovation management for industrial solutions.
ECP consists of adapted methods for assessing the environmental and financial impacts of industrial solutions
(plants, processes, single technologies or even services) and tools which helps to derive reliable assessment
results. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a suitable method for assessing environmental impacts of products and
solutions over their entire lifecycle focusing on those lifecycle phases which may contribute significantly to environmental
burdens or benefits. To meet these requirements the main challenge is to simplify the assessment
methodology as far as reliability and accuracy of results is preserved.
To present results in both dimensions of economical performance and environmental impact the paper introduces
the concept of the “eco care matrix” (ECM). Environmental sound industrial solutions have advantages in both
“eco” dimensions (eco-nomical + eco-logical). The analytical approach presented is further on implemented in
two complementary and independent industrial application fields: in order to exemplify usability of the approach
in quite complex process technology different hot metal producing technologies (blast furnace route vs. smelting
reduction routes COREX / FINEX). The second pilot application is targeted on the assessment of infrastructure
solutions especially focusing on the comparison of environmental and financial effects of different technologies
and payment schemes of electronic city tolling systems for London and Copenhagen. Experienced results derived
from these two pilot applications to put ECP in place are evaluated and presented.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Risø International Energy Conference 2009 : Energy solutions for CO2 emission peak and subsequent decline |
| Volume | Risø-R-1712 (EN) |
| Publication date | 2009 |
| Pages | 45-52 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-87-550-3783-0 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
| Event | Risø International Energy Conference 2009 - Risø DTU, Roskilde, Denmark Duration: 14 Sep 2009 → 16 Sep 2009 |
Conference
| Conference | Risø International Energy Conference 2009 |
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| Location | Risø DTU |
| Country | Denmark |
| City | Roskilde |
| Period | 14/09/2009 → 16/09/2009 |