SUSTAINABILITY STARTS IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

 The costs involved in manufacturing, maintaining and recycling a product are determined as early as in the product
development phase. This phase also determines the ecological footprint of a product during production, product
use and its feedback into circular value networks. Often only incomplete data with low data quality is available in
this context.
 Companies therefore need methods and tools that allow them to make decisions regarding the sustainable production
and operation of their products at an early stage, while at the same time taking into account the constantly
changing laws and regulations in order to enable circular value creation.
 In order to assess the ecological footprint of a product, it is necessary to collect sustainability-relevant information
across the entire production and supply chain and make it available for product development. This can be done
using data ecosystems. Tools and methods that enable companies to participate in these ecosystems and use the
provided information must be made available.
PROJECT GOALS
The goal of Decide4ECO is to create a methodology which uses data ecosystems such
as Manufacturing-X or Catena-X and develop a
systematic and fl exible decision support system
for product planning and development with
respect to the sustainability of a product and its
entire value chain in shared data ecosystems.
The methodology is based on connectors for
integrating PLM and other systems into data
ecosystems as well as on AI-based methods for
sustainability assessment which are developed
by the project partners.