2011 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Implementing Life Cycle Engineering Efficiently into Automotive Industry Processes
verfasst von : Stephan Krinke
Erschienen in: Towards Life Cycle Sustainability Management
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
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Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a powerful tool which supports life cycle engineering. It can be used as an environmental management instrument within the product development. For successful life cycle engineering the formal incorporation of life cycle thinking into the company policy is a necessary prerequisite. Additional success factors which have to be met are the transformation of LCA results into measurable targets for engineers. Based on given environmental targets, such as a certain target value for greenhouse gas emissions, LCA can be used to calculate a specific technical target such as the weight of a component or the fuel consumption of a vehicle. The transformation of LCA results into measurable targets, show the added value which LCA can give in terms of life cycle engineering.