ICT TOOLS CARDS DETAILED INFORMATION ON ICT SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR CHINESE SMES

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Innova S.p.A. Technology transfer and Valorisation Paola Di Giovanni Andrea Picini

Rome, 30th April 2004

DETAILED INFORMATION ON ICT SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR CHINESE SMES

Table of contents Table of contents ..............................................................................................................................2 Introduction .......................................................................................................................................3 SOFTWARE TOOLS RELATED TO EMS .......................................................................................4 SOFTWARE TOOLS RELATED TO LCA ......................................................................................18

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Introduction This document has been developed by Innova spa in fulfilment of its obligations as established in the contract Innova –ISTAS “Supply of tender services for BASIC project”. Innova is responsible together with the support of the BASIC project Chinese partners of transferring Technology and Awareness in the field of IT tools and IST solutions. The present document “ICT tools cards” has been developed as appendix of the Deliverable 5.1. “Sustainable ICT Survey”. It has been designed so to provide Chinese SMEs with short and meaningful information on the ICT tools specific feature and contents so to enable companies to immediately identify the services obtainable by each application and its potential impact in companies’ business processes and products. Innova has developed a questionnaire designed so to deepen the available information of the whole group of tools presented in the survey in the following categories: Software Brief description Main content Industrial Sectors targeted Technical information (hardware/software requirements) Major software benefits for the user The questionnaire has been then sent to the ICT software tools developers so to obtain first hand information and compare Innova expert team evaluation of the tools with the one of technology owners. The final selection of ICT tools presented in this documents has been obtained evaluating the tools according to the following criteria: 1. industrial sector of application: the wider sectoral application is possible the higher interest the tool can arise among the pool of companies supported by the BASIC project 2. easiness of integration into company management practises: user friendly interface, compatibility with major operating system, performance of the services offered compared to the other available on the market 3. usefulness of results in the terms of: communicability of the results, impact in the international trade opportunities for the Chinese SMEs 4. availability in the short medium term of the software Chinese version According to this criteria, Innova expert team has selected a set of tool, 14 software tools for the Environmental Management System and 6 for Life Cycle Assessment. Finally, the ICT tool cards have been also designed so to be uploaded in the BASIC web site, together with the Del 5.1 “Sustainable ICT Survey” titled “ICT and business sustainability in SMEs” and the related flyer, so to constitute the Virtual library on ICT tools for sustainable SMEs that represents the Del 5.4. of the BASIC project. Here below follows the ICT tools cards including the information available per each of the selected tool.

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SOFTWARE TOOLS RELATED TO EMS Management systems – These are either specific environment management systems, integrated environmental, health and safety systems or hybrid systems that incorporate sustainable development or security An EMS is defined as the organizational structure, responsibilities, practices, procedures, processes ,and resources for implementing and managing an organization’s environmental affairs while ensuring conformity to its policies, standards, and stakeholders’ expectations. An Environment Management System (EMS) is a tool for managing the impacts of an organisation's activities on the environment. It provides a structured approach to planning and implementing environment protection measures. An EMS monitors environmental performance. An EMS integrates environmental management into a company's daily operations, long term planning and other quality management systems. Possible applications are: to manage compliance programs related to emission, to generate environment reports, creation and maintenance of quality and environmental management systems (ISO 9000 & 14000), procedures necessary to implement a complete EMS certifiable to ISO 14001 etc.

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Software Name

1. Greenhouse Gas Suite

2. opsEnvironmental Company: ESP (Environmental Software Providers)

Address: 444 Castro St., Suite 800, Mountain View, CA, 94041, USA Phone: 650-968-9000 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.esp-net.com To be developed in partnership with client

Chinese version availability

Software tools description Brief description: (objectives, advantages, impact on the business process reengineering. )

Greenhouse Gas Suite is an enterprise level software solution for managing greenhouse gas programs. The software includes compliance tools, reporting tools, risk management tools, and tools which help companies manage the trading of greenhouse gas credits opsEnvironmental is an enterprise level software solution for multi-media environmental data management. The software includes modules for air, water, waste and compliance management, and tools such as corporate roll-up reporting.

Main content: (software tool supporting LCA, Design for Environment, Environmental Management System, Environmental Data System, implementation ISO 14000, Reporting, Tracking and Monitoring, Emission Management etc.)

Industrial Sector targeted Technical information: (hardware/software requirements) Major software benefits for the user

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Greenhouse Gas Suite: Emissions tracking and reporting, corporate roll-up reporting, project planning tools, enterprise planning tools, risk management tools, trading and accounting tools. Country-specific modules allow global companies to manage compliance programs in multiple countries, while the data can be easily rolled up into one single corporate-wide report. opsEnvironmental: modules for air emissions, water discharge monitoring, waste management. Software helps companies manage regulatory compliance, corporate roll-up reporting, etc. Developed to be of use to individual facilities as well as global enterprises. Power and energy, automotive, chemical and petrochemical, aerospace, pharmaceutical, semiconductor industries. ESP software helps companies manage their environmental data and compliance

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programs with increased efficiency and lower costs. By automating the collection of data, the software saves significant staff time, helps ensure accuracy, and reduces the risk of non-compliance. Reporting tools allow users to instantly create reports of any kind of data, from facility-level to corporate level. The software helps companies demonstrate compliance as well as sustainability. In addition, tools to manage emissions trading help companies optimize the value of their emissions assets.

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Software Name:

3. EnQ

Company: Proventia Oy

Address: Matarankatu 2 d Phone + 358-9-25173385 E-mail: [email protected] Web site:www.proventia.fi No

Chinese version availability:

Software tool characteristics Brief description: .

EnQ Corporate is an application which can be used to generate environmental or sustainability reports (depending on the width of the solution).

Main content:

The software collects selected environmental information from different sources in the company and produces selected reports for basis for decision making, sales and/or R&D Major manufacturing companies (metal, paper&pulp, electronics) Hardware: 2 * Intel PIII 1,2 Ghz processor RAM > 1 Gb Harddisks 2 * 30 Gb (RAID)

Industrial Sector targeted Technical information

Software: Database: relational DBMS default database MySQL/InnoDB (www.mysql.com) used via JDBC-driver may be replaced with any SQL92 -compatible DBMS, ie. Oracle, PostgreSQL, DB2, MS SQL Server Major software benefits for the user:

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Cost savings in reporting due to single data bases, more accurate information, reduces need for verification

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Software Name

4. EnStep

Company: Proventia Oy

Address: Matarankatu 2 d Phone + 358-9-25173385 E-mail: [email protected] Web site:www.proventia.fi (they are working on that, pls contact for info)

Chinese version availability

Software tool characteristics Brief description

Main content

Industrial Sector targeted Technical information

EnStep is a software for creation and maintenance of quality and environmental management systems (ISO 9000 & 14000). It brings cost savings compared to manual or unorganized file management and also saves costs in creation phase, where several consulting days can be saved. The software is a document management tool, with existing exemplary content of a quality and environmental management system, which can be easily modified to meet most companies needs SME or any company without tools for management systems (ISO 9000 & 14000) Hardware: Basic newer PC Software: Database: relational DBMS default database MySQL/InnoDB (www.mysql.com) used via JDBC-driver may be replaced with any SQL92 -compatible DBMS, ie. Oracle, PostgreSQL, DB2, MS SQL Server Application: server side implementation with Java (Servlets and Java Server Pages) runs on any platform with JVM User interface based on HTML editing of documents with ActiveX-component and Java Applet

Major software benefits for the user

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Cost savings from less use of consultants in set up phase of quality or environmental system Cost savings for easier maintenance and management of quality or environmental system More easy and comfortable to use than paper based quality or environmental system or quality or environmental system based on unorganized files

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Software Name Company: Oxegen Inc

5. Oxegen EMS. Address: 2120 Queen St. E, Suite 204 Toronto, ON, Canada, M4E 1E2 Phone: 416 686 3180 Cell: 416 524 9909

Chinese version

email: [email protected] Web site: www.oxegen.com enable it to handle Chinese within the next 612 months Description

The Oxegen EMS software is an Environmental Management System (EMS) that is delivered via the Internet (ASP). The software is configured by Oxegen to meet the needs of each targeted industry. The software will provide the customer with the tools, reports, policies and most importantly, the specific procedures necessary to implement and operate a complete EMS certifiable to ISO 14001. Some examples of where Oxegen has been successfully applied or contracted for are as follows: automotive dealerships, autobody repair, forestry management, wineries, and smaller municipalities Oxegen is price based on an initial license fee per company, or in the case of a company with many sites, a per site fee. A small annual maintenance fee is then charged to keep the environmental, industry and legislative information current, ensuring the customer has the latest and most up-to-date information in their EMS Oxegen H&S is an Internet based, software platform that allows organization to meet Health & Safety legal requirements. Oxegen H&S is a full management system solution that provides policies and procedures, references, incident/accident reporting, monitoring, audit and corporate reporting. The emphasis is placed on practices being pro-active and preventive by the identification of hazards and the evaluation and control of work related risks. The Oxegen H&S system features include the following elements: • Occupational Health & Safety policies • Planning • Implementation and Operation • Checking and Corrective Action • Management Review The OHSAS specification provides with the requirements for a Health and Safety management system. These requirements will enable organization to control its H&S risks and improve performance. The Oxegen H&S management system is applicable to an organization that wishes to: • Minimize risks to employees, customers, contractors and other interested parties who may be exposed to health & safety risks associated with its activities • Provide a significant level of occupational health and safety risk management to the Principals, Directors and Shareholders • Comply with a growing number of local regulations and legislation • Assure itself of its conformance with its local Occupational Health & Safety policy • Demonstrate such conformance to its shareholders, customers and its community

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Software Name

Company: Essential Technologies

4 different modules 6. Essential Emissions Management™ 7. Essential Hazard Communication™ 8. Essential Compliance Management™ 9. Essential Occupational Health & Safety™ Address: 1395 Piccard Drive, Suite 230 · Rockville, MD 20850 · USA Phone: +1 301 556 1700 email: [email protected] Web site: http://www.essentialtechnologies.com/

Chinese version Description Essential Emissions Management™ simplifies reporting and eliminates duplicate efforts by driving complete emissions reporting and tracking from one integrated reporting system and central database. Essential Emissions Management improves organization's environmental performance. By providing up-to-date information that can be used to continually assess emissions status, it is possible to implement improvement measures where necessary, while easily identifying the best targets for pollution prevention. Additionally, the solution provides a platform for enterprise-wide, multi-media emissions best practices, ensuring that every facility is guided by the standards set for organization. This integrated solution allows to monitor Air Emissions, Water Emissions, Waste Emissions, Chemical Inventory, Fugitive Emissions. Essential Hazard Communication™ pulls all these functions together: • Material Safety Data Sheets easily accessible by employees. • Training documented and effectively delivered • Shared inventory; of what chemicals are used in the workplace, By integrating data on chemical ingredients and hazards, Essential Hazard Communication allows to utilize the same data for multiple compliance and reporting requirements, significantly reducing the cost of data management. Essential Compliance Management™ helps companies to assure that all of facilities are in compliance by centralizing all compliance activities and information within one system. This integrated approach allows to plan, manage and communicate compliance information while significantly reducing the likelihood of noncompliance. Essential Compliance Management helps lower compliance and administrative costs by using the Web to handle task completion Essential Occupational Health & Safety™ helps companies to integrate various health and safety activities to streamline health and safety program, build best safety practices at every location throughout enterprise, and assure OSHA compliance. Essential Occupational Health & Safety improves organization's safety record through accident and injury trend analysis, providing the data to create targeted accident prevention and exposure control programs. Additionally, it is possible develop and track safety training programs and manage required medical surveillance to enhance worker health. The enterprise reporting function enables to evaluate the effectiveness of safety programs by tracking the reduction in accident rate, while tracking and managing costs. With Essential's integrated approach, the central database maintains all vital health and safety information for all locations. It will possible to see in real-time which departments and locations are in compliance with OSHA and other regulatory standards.

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This integrated solution will help companies with: Industrial Hygiene, Injury & Illness, Training, Occupational Medicine MSDS Management.

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Software Name Company: Chemical Safety Software

10. EMS software Address: Corporate Offices 5901 Christie Avenue, Suite 502 Emeryville, California 94608 Phone: (510) 594 1000 email: [email protected] Web site: http://www.chemicalsafety.com /ie.htm

Chinese version Description Environmental Management Systems (EMS) is a comprehensive management and reporting application that tracks and manages flows of hazardous materials through the supply chain, keeps MSDS’s up-to-date and makes them available to all users across an organization via the Internet or network. Chemical Safety’s EMS is a environmental information management software program consisting of four interconnected modules Inventory Management: EMS’s Inventory Management Module addresses the special issues associated with storing and using hazardous materials. The Inventory database maintains product information at a level of detail designed specifically to support compliance and regulatory reporting. Regulatory Reporting tools generate standard federal, state, local and international reports such as SARA Report, Annual and Biennial reports. Inventory information can be input as needed or automatically drawn from links to an organization’s Procurement or ERP System, or through direct links to primary vendors. This keeps inventory information up-to-date and accurate. MSDS Management Module Image or text based Material Safety Data Sheets can be viewed across the organization over the Internet, corporate Intranet, or by way of a local or wide area network. Enter the product name, manufacturer, MSDS # or any other data field, and the image- or text-based MSDS is returned for viewing or printing. Electronically provided MSDS’s now meet OSHA right-to-know requirements for instant hazard information access 24 hours a day. The Chemical Reference Database is included with the MSDS Module and contains chemical, regulatory, and hazard information on the regulated components of products. The MSDS database lists the components of a product and the chemical reference database provides more detailed profiles of these components. This database is updated regularly to maintain the most current regulations. The MSDS Management module becomes even more powerful when it interfaces with other EMS modules. Direct links to the Inventory module keeps changing inventory items associated with the correct MSDS and federal, state, local and international regulations. Waste Management Module The EMS Waste Management Module is an integrated "cradle-to-grave" waste tracking, documentation and compliance reporting tool. It tracks waste from the point of generation to manifesting and disposal. Manifests can be generated using templates and reference tables, and will print on the Uniform (National) Manifest Form. Electronic interface with waste management companies can further simplify management and the exchange of critical information with service providers. The Profile and Stream database stores detailed information on facility-specific waste, and supports the entry of regulatory, safety, and shipping information. Profiles are associated with manifests and containers, and include chemical composition and properties, shipping name, hazard labeling, disposal method, tax category, and expiration date. To gather waste item information, this module interfaces with the Inventory Module through a Waste Requisition function, transferring information on an inventory item directly to the Waste

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Management database when a user requests a waste transfer/pickup. It can move waste items to drums, accumulation areas, and manifests. The Waste Management module generates all reports required for local, state, federal and international compliance, including Biennial and tax reports, Land Ban (LDR) forms and SARA reports, and can transfer them electronically to regulating agencies. User-defined reports can be created for management decision-making support.

Human Resources/Safety Management The Human Resources/Safety Management Module interfaces with and supports the Inventory and Waste modules. It manages all data related to the employee, including personal and medical information, incidents/accidents, training requirements and training completed. Security features protect confidential employee information. Employee training requirements and status can be monitored according to job function/responsibility, and retraining dates are automatically calculated. Notification of training/retraining requirements and available classes/courses can be automatically sent to supervisors and personnel. Employee training certificates can be scanned and maintained as images. This module tracks the results of safety testing for both employees and locations. It records information on spills, injuries, and substances involved in an incident, and generates the OSHA 200 and 5020 accident logs. The mentioned modules are available as an individual module or as part of the complete EMS package

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Software Name Company: Emsoft

11. Integrum Address: Sydney, Australia Phone: +61 2 9662 3300 email: [email protected] Web site: http://www.emsoft.com.au

Chinese version Description Integrum is software that helps organisations to implement environmental, health, and safety (EH&S), and quality management systems in accordance with international standards (ISO 9000 & ISO 14000 series and international Safety Standards) and provides an incident management system for accident, incident and customer complaint tracking and reporting. Integrum provides a Ad Hoc reporting tool to produce high quality reports and charts from multiple data sources, It allows organisations to import (or link) existing data, documents, and records, eliminating double entry and duplication of data. With internet and intranet functionality integrum integrates SHE&Q management information needs.

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Software Name Company: GemTeck Environmental Software Ltd

12. EQWin Address: Suite 400, 1285 West Pender Street Vancouver, BC V6E 4B1 Canada Phone: +1(604) 408-7304 Fax: +1(604) 684-3541 e-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.gemteck.com

the complete interface can easily be user translated "on the fly" into any language, including Chinese. Description EQWin is a database system for storing, analyzing, reporting and managing the volumes of analytical data derived from environmental monitoring programs (air, surface and groundwater, etc.). EQWin is an environmental quality data management system for Windows. EQWin is suited to almost any scale of operation; from mine sites to large industrial operations to municipal landfill sites Imported data is rigorously screened, checked and validated prior to storage in EQWin's database. Threshold levels (i.e. regulatory standards) for any contaminants can be inputted and compared to the analytical results from samples collected and stored in EQWin's open database. EQWin generates appropriately formatted reports and graphs to fulfill these requirements. Exceedences are flagged, and exception/compliance reports generated, thus alerting users before potential environmental damage occurs. Chinese version

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Software Name Company: GreenWare Environmental Systems Inc

13. ISO 14000 software products Address: 145 King Street East, Suite 200 Toronto, Ontario M5C 2Y8 Phone: (416) 363-557 email: [email protected] Web site: http://www.greenware.com/

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Description The software follows a three-step process that starts with a gap analysis (ISO 14000 Assessment). This is followed by a full EMS implementation toolset (ISO 14000 Implementation), and completed by a powerful audit program (ISO 14000 Audit). GreenWare's ISO 14000 software provides SMEs with a complete set of tools to implement, maintain and audit an EMS that meets all of the requirements of ISO 14000. The ISO 14000 software products provide companies and/or their consultants with a complete electronic tool set for evaluating, implementing, monitoring and auditing environmental management systems for their conformance to ISO 14001. Each product contains a set of powerful electronic features, including: • A document management system. • Full customization, report-writing and word processing capabilities. • Automatic linkages, logical dependencies and scoring. • Customizable views for draft, final, manual and electronic documents. • Internal and external document configuration (including WWW). • Extensive guidance and on-screen instruction including context-specific ISO 14000 text. • Document controls, verification and password protect features. • Links to multiple locations and users. • Special diagnostic features that automatically evaluate the completion and status of the electronic documents.

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Software Name Company: Trace Environmental Systems, Inc.

14. CEMS- DAS 2000 Address: 45 Route 46 Pine Brook, NJ 07058 USA Phone: +1 (973) 227-8383 e-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.traceenv.com/

Chinese version Description Trace is a custom designer and integrator of Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS). It utilizes a wide range of monitors and related equipment from leading manufacturers. To ensure maximum reliability and system flexibility, programmable logic controllers (PLC's) or Data-Loggers, are utilized for communications and system control. DAs 2000 system is easily integrated with the CEMS to ensure reliable data capture and ease in reporting Trace has developed a flexible Windows™ based data acquisition and reporting system (DAS 2000) for use with both continuous emissions and parameter monitoring systems. The data acquisition system can be custom configured to meet individual state and customer requirements. There are three main programs in the family. Configuration Explorer: this program allows the user to create and edit a system configuration. A system configuration fully describes every element of data associated with environmental monitoring. The configuration consists of general company information, network setup and user information followed by pollution source details. The configuration is presented in a familiar Windows™ Explorer like interface. Data Monitor: This program performs the polling of environmental and process-related data, displays data real time, displays and acknowledges alarms. Data gathered on any Station on the network can be displayed both in tabular and trend graph form. Polling of individual Data Groups can be controlled. Communications between the Station and the dataloggers can be monitored in real time. Alarms created by any Station on the network can be viewed and acknowledged at any Station. Data Explorer: This program displays and reports data gathered using the Data Monitor program. Data values and statuses may be viewed and edited. Data can be from polled Data Groups, analyzer calibration drift tests and alarms. Various standard reports are available as well as a full-featured Ad-Hoc query manager for making customized reports. A separate program known as Scheduler can be setup to run reports on desired days and times.

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SOFTWARE TOOLS RELATED TO LCA Life Cycle Assessment is a decision-making tool to identify environmental burdens and evaluate the environmental consequences of a product, process or service over its life cycle from cradleto-grave. It has been standardized by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) and it also forms the conceptual basis for a number of management approaches that consider a product across its life cycle, covering resource acquisition, product manufacturing, product use, and end-of-life. LCA is the foundation for two other powerful decision-making tools, life cycle engineering and life cycle value assessment. LCE takes the basic LCA framework and adds an analysis of the technical and economic aspects of the product system under consideration.: By adding these two additional considerations LCE provides decision-makers with a concurrent analysis of the technical, economic and ecological implications for a variety of product related applications such as material selection, technology changes, and new design options. LCE tools are integrated directly into product design and engineering and they allow decision-makers to evaluate different scenarios taking into consideration environmental, cost and technical factors Life cycle value assessment (LCVA) uses a systematic methodology to identify, quantify and analyze the environmental, financial, and if desired, social implications of each of the activities involved in producing and consuming a product or service. LCA (that identify the key environmental aspects of products throughout the product life cycle) is a fundamental tool for Design for Environment (DfE) or Ecodesign. DfE is the integration of environmental considerations into product and process design. DfE practices are meant to support the development of more environmentally sound products and processes while maintaining (and in some cases even exceeding) price, performance and quality standards.

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1. Umberto: Software Tool for Material Flow Management and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Address: ifu Hamburg GmbH, Im Winkel 3, 20251 Hamburg, Germany

Software Name Company:

Phone: ++49 / 40 / 480009-0 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.umberto.de n/a in current version

Chinese version availability

Software tool characteristics Brief description: (objectives, advantages, impact on the business process reengineering. )

Main content: (software tool supporting LCA, Design for Environment, Environmental Management System, Environmental Data System, implementation ISO 14000, Reporting, Tracking and Monitoring, Emission

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Umberto is a tool to analyse material and energy flows in a production system. Results can be used for optimisation of the system in regard to environment and costs. All data is available for controlling and auditing purposes. Various reporting functions and diagrams are provided. Assessment of inventory data allows trend analysis and benchmarking. Scenario analysis supports planning and decision-making. Main functions: •

graphical network modelling editor

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process specifications linear/nonlinear

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analyse flows and stocks

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powerful calculation algorithm

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inventory display and diagrams

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Sankey diagrams

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impact assessment component

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cost accounting component

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process data library included

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assessment methods included

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project documentation

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Reports

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link to external data sources

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import/export interfaces

• scripting The software is customisable for specific requirements and provides various interfaces to connect to external data sources. Umberto is a software tool for modelling of material and energy flows in production systems. It can be used for LCA studies, corporate environmental balances and material flow management.

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Management etc.)

The material flow data calculated with Umberto can of course also be used for other purposes, such as flow cost accounting, reporting, controlling and data provision for various tasks in industrial ecology.

Area of software intervention in the business process

Depending on desired integration or intervention level. However, Umberto is not used for real-time production tracking or monitoring. Umberto can be run in a stand-alone configuration for individual user (e.g. environmental manager). The software can also be fully integrated in the existing IT environment, linking to corporate data systems (production data systems) and feeding the results back into management information systems (e.g. providing rolespecific information over the Intranet in a browser window). No limitation to specific sector. Most interesting to industries with significant material and energy flows. Customers from following sectors: chemical, pharmaceutical, automobile, semiconductors, metal, waste, building materials, pulp/paper, food, etc.

Industrial Sector targeted

Technical information: (hardware/software requirements)

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Operating systems: Windows 98 / ME / XP Home or Windows NT / 2000 / XP Prof. No additional software required. Minimum hardware requirements: Pentium II / 100 MHz 32 MB RAM 150 MB free disk space Recommended hardware equipment: Pentium III or higher 128 MB RAM or more fast VGA graphics board 17'' monitor, 1024 x 768 resolution 800 MB free disk space

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Software Name Company: sinum AG – EcoPerformance Systems

2. REGIS 2.2 Address: Lerchenfeldstrasse5 CH-9014 St. Gallen, Switzerland Phone +41 (0)71 274 71 72 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.sinum.com Available version: German, English, Japanese Spanish

Chinese version availability

Software tool characteristics Brief description: (objectives, advantages, impact on the business process reengineering. )

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REGIS Areas of application • EcoPerformance / corporate eco balance • LCA • Material- and energy flow management Systematic recording and documentation with REGIS Action-oriented and flexible structuring of the company into organizational units (sites, departments, management processes, activities, etc.). Period-referred recording of quantities and costs in arbitrary units (kg, piece, etc..) as well as automatic conversion. Comprehensive documentation of the recorded data, assumptions and results aligned to the environmental management system. Identifying and evaluation of environmental impacts with REGIS Maximum realization gain through the oebumethodology (site balance, core balance, total balance), input-output balance as well as simple scenario computation. Evaluation of the material and energy flows with standard reports and definable quantity thresholds for focusing on the essence. Controlling and environmental reporting with REGIS Management-oriented data reduction by the formation of environmental indicators and comparison of different periods permit an efficient controlling. Export of the evaluations and documentations for the individual integration of the results in internal means of communication or external environmental reports. Goal Analysis of the material flow after quantities, costs and effects. Causer-fair allocation. Support of "Ad hoc evaluations", i.e. rapid composition of evaluations to a current topic. Data input

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Main content: (software tool supporting LCA, Design for Environment, Environmental Management System, Environmental Data System, implementation ISO 14000, Reporting, Tracking and Monitoring, Emission Management etc.)

Area of software intervention in the business process

Extensive data collection is provided, which facilitates the master data collection substantially. The quantities consumed are registered manually into the measuring point mask or read in automatically by interface. Output The outputs take place either as formatted reports and/or business diagrams or via export to Excel Sankeys or graphic flow charts are not provided, can be prepared manual however by independent program (e.g. AUDIT Sankey). • data recording • definition (also user defined) of evaluation methods • standard methods integrated (ecoindicator99, CML, Ecoscarcity 1997, …) • data inventories for energy, packaging, building materials, transportation, disposal etc. • reporting and various export of data depend on area of application

Industrial Sector targeted

industry-independently

Technical information: (hardware/software requirements)

recommended PentiumIII, 500 MB free space on disk, 128 MB RAM Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP, 98 easy to handle, action-oriented, flexible and company fitting perspectives on the eco performance of companies, materials etc. English: http://www.sinum.com/htdocs/e_software_regis. shtml Test version available German: http://www.sinum.com/htdocs/d_regis.shtml Test version available Japanese: http://sinum.yamatake.co.jp/

Major software benefits for the user Other information available

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Software Name Company: CIT Ekologik

3. LCAIt. Address: Chalmers Sciencepark SE 412 88 Gšteborg Sweden Phone: +46-31 772 40 20 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Web site: http://www.lcait.com/

if there would be a possibility for finance, a translation to Chinese would be possible. Description LCAiT provides an user-friendly interface. All the functions you have grown accustomed to drag and drop, copy and paste and more - are featured. Numerous databases can be viewed simultaneously and the needed data can be copied directly from a database on the network to own database. Impact factors can be entered from the impact assessment database, inserted manually, or inserted by ASCII file import. Different impact assessment factors can also be copied between databases. LCA data is documented according to the SPINE documentation format allowing to communicate the information to a third party electronically and transparently. Creating and documenting the LCA system. The graphical interface allows you to get a good overview of your system, while also showing its internal flows and parameters. The inputs and outputs of the processes can easily be edited, entered or deleted, and all the documentation is entered and edited in accordance with the SPINE data format. Viewing the results. The inventory matrix presenting all the flows of your system can be customised, printed and exported to any spreadsheet or word processing program. The flows are automatically sorted into different categories e.g. resources, emissions to air etc. Impact assessment results (e.g. global warning) are presented in exportable matrices as well as charts. Other essential features. Data (including documentation) can be exported to or imported from other software. Process flows and impact assessment factors can be imported from any spreadsheet or word processing program by ASCII file import. The LCA data are stored in a relation database making them readily accessible through search functions and easy to update. Chinese version

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Software Name: Company: PRé Consultants

4. SimaPro Eco-it Address: Plotterweg 12 · Amersfoort · The Netherlands Phone: +31 33 4555022

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E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.pre.nl They are looking into the possibilities to develop a Chinese version for SimaPro Description SimaPro is a full-featured LCA software tool. Complex products with complex life cycles can be compared and analysed. The process databases and the impact assessment databases can be edited and expanded without limitation. The ability to trace the origin of any result has been implemented in a very flexible and powerful way. Special features are: multiple impact assessment methods, multiple process databases, automatic unit conversion. Furthermore, there are powerful tools to analyse take-back and disassembly of products, as well as complex waste treatment and recycling scenario’s. SimaPro 5 is a tool to collect, analyse and monitor environmental information for products and services. Complex life cycles can be modelled and analysed in a clear and transparent way, following the ISO 14040 series recommendations. Chinese version

Eco-it: allows to model a complex product and its life cycle in a few minutes. ECO-it immediately calculates the environmental load, and shows which parts of the product contribute most. Based on this information it will possible to reduce the environmental load of the product.

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DETAILED INFORMATION ON ICT SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR CHINESE SMES

Software Name Company: Ecobilan

5. TEAM Address: email:[email protected] [email protected] Web site: http://www.ecobalance.com/uk_tools.php

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If many customers in China request a Chinese version, and fund the making of this version, then we can envision making one. (cost would be around 100 000 US$ and the delay 5 monthscourse the funding can be also provided from international budgets)

Description TEAM™ is Life Cycle Assessment software. TEAM™ allows the user to build and use a database and to model any system representing the operations associated with products, processes and activities. TEAM™ enables to describe any industrial system and to calculate the associated life cycle inventories and potential environmental impacts according to the ISO 14040 series of standards. By offering powerful calculation capabilities, linked to a comprehensive process and material database, TEAM™ dramatically speeds up the process of carrying out a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) compliant with current methodology standards (e.g., ISO 14040). TEAM™ is a powerful tool used to: • Compile life cycle inventories using Ecobilan data, own data, or any combination thereof, • perform sensitivity analyses in an automated fashion to identify 'data hot spots'; • investigate 'what if' scenarios via user friendly 'Control Panels'; • conduct life cycle impact assessment determinations using any one of the protocols incorporated within the software, • report findings in a variety of different ways making use of the tabular / graphical display options. Project or industry specific issues have been freely left up to user's choice, in order to keep the software tool flexible. As a consequence, TEAM™ has been designed in order to be able to handle a variety of methodological rules. It lets the user handle these choices, change them during the course of a project, and even assess their influence on the end-results (sensitivity analysis).

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Software Name Company: TNO

6. Eco Scan 3.0 Address: P.O.box 6235 · 5600 HE Eindhoven The Netherlands Phone: + 31 40 2650182 Web site: www.ind.tno.nl/product_development/sustainable_ concepts/ecoscan/index.html

Chinese version

EcoScan 3.0 is only available in the Dutch, English, German and Spanish language.

Description EcoScan 3.0 allows to analyse the environmental impact and cost of a product. All life cycle phases of a product can be taken into account. On a Product Life Cycle form (PLC form) it is possible to specify all relevant aspects of the product concerning e.g. the production, usage or disposal phase. It is possible to define own sheets (phases). Then environmental points to the relevant aspects will be assigned to express the environmental impact of the product in scores. This is merely a question of dragging and dropping data from ready-made databases onto the sheets of the PLC form. Finally, it will be possible to display the results graphically and calculate product improvements: Other features: •

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The environmental impact is expressed in a score in EcoScan. You can determine self which method or system you use to express the score in. EcoScan 3.0 is delivered standard with a database that support the Eco-indicator 95 & 99 method, but other databases can also be delivered look at the database section. These are ready-made databases containing pre-calculated Eco-indicators of materials, processes, usage aspects, and transportation & packaging possibilities. Own database can be also created. Pie charts, bar charts, life cycle diagrams and many more graphs enable a professional presentation of results. Various graphs can be opened simultaneously, even while filling in the PLC form. Compatible with windows application EcoScan 3.0 is 100% compatible with Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0 and 2000 applications. This means that exporting results is simply a question of dragging and dropping them onto the report document in whatever application. Resizing a graph in a report will also cause no problem, as EcoScan's graphs are fully scalable. With the network version of EcoScan 3.0 sharing data has become quite easy. A central database, which can easily be controlled and updated, guarantees up-to-date quality data. Previously calculated components and products can be stored centrally for use by other engineers. The network version makes it possible to create various databases and determine who is allowed to see, use, or change data throughout own organisation.

Importing data from other applications is very easy. From Excel, for example, you can simply drag and drop the data, such as product structures, into EcoScan 3.0.

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