For instance, in the case of a manufactured product, environmental impacts are assessed from raw material extraction and processing (cradle), through the product's manufacture, distribution and use, to the recycling or final disposal of the materials composing it (grave). Life cycle assessment or LCA (also known as life cycle analysis) is a methodology for assessing environmental impacts associated with all the stages of the life cycle of a commercial product, process, or service. MBSE : Methods & Tools to design systems.Illustration of the general phases of a life cycle assessment, as described by ISO 14040.

Life Cycle Assessment : Methods & Tools to.

EcoDesign : The integration of environmentalĪspects into the product development process.

Next 10 years will determine our ecological.

Why & how to connect MBSE & LCA to form an EcoDesign process ?Įvaluating the environmental impact of a system Integrating MBSE and Life Cycle Assessment for Removing Plastics from the Oceans with The SeaCleaners This information attached to the system architecture can be automatically exported as an initial inventory analysis to LCA tools used by environmental experts to perform their impact analysis (such as SimaPro and OpenLCA).Įxperimented on a MANTA subsystem, we will show how this integration between Capella and LCA Tools accelerates the evaluation of the impacts a system has on its environment, and helps system designers to make architecture decisions that are better for the planet. This extension consists of additional concepts added to Capella for inventorying components' physical characteristics and the substances they consume and/or emit. In this talk we will present a Capella extension developped by Obeo in partnership with The SeaCleaners and Altran to facilitate the Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) of complex systems. The flagship project initiated by The SeaCleaners is the MANTA, the first seagoing vessel capable of collecting and processing in continuous flow large quantities of macro plastic waste floating at the surface of oceans.Its design has been focusing on many innovative technologies in the field of renewable energy production or by limiting her global carbon footprint maximizing the energy self-sufficiency. The SeaCleaners association has been founded to provide global, long-term and worldwide solutions for fighting against ocean plastic pollution.

If we don’t take action, in 2050, there will be more plastic than fishes in the oceans! More than 8 million tons of plastic are dumped in the oceans every year. By Arnaud Dieumegard and Raphaël Pagé (Obeo)

Plastics databases for openlca