Research and innovation with SimaPro Craft

Environmental research requires a high level of transparency. When conducting LCAs, you need to trace impact results back to their source and understand underlying assumptions.

When organizations turn to you with research questions, they expect independent, scientifically grounded results. This requires clear documentation of data sources, uncertainties, and the ability to perform detailed sensitivity analyses.

Essentials for robust scientific research

• Databases: SimaPro includes extensive databases such as ecoinvent, with unit processes, uncertainty parameters, and multiple options to deal with multi-output processes (cut-off, APOS, and consequential).

• Methods: SimaPro supports a wide range of impact assessment methods. You can explore different perspectives and normalization sets (e.g. ReCiPe) and test the sensitivity of your models. Uncertainty of each flow can be analyzed quantitatively, and you can also add uncertainty factors to your own data.

• Uncertainty analysis: Built-in Monte Carlo analysis feature allows you to calculate uncertainty in your inventory results, giving you an indication of how reliable, complete, and representative your results are.

Identify hotspots to drive change

Identifying processes with the highest impacts across life cycle stages is essential for meaningful analysis. SimaPro helps you substantiate which materials or processing are most in need of change, and which life cycle stage needs the most attention.

These ‘hotspots’ insights support clear, science-based recommendations for decision-makers.

A reliable choice

SimaPro is used by research institutes and sustainability practitioners worldwide. Built on more than 35 years of development, it continuously incorporates the latest methods and datasets and is widely trusted in the LCA community.

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