Is a software for crafting sustainable future products and services.
Innovators and developers of physical products and services face increasing pressure from regulations, corporate strategies, and customer expectations to create products that are quantifiably sustainable. To address this challenge, we offer an intelligent assistant system that quantifies environmental impacts during the creation process and generates actionable ecodesign strategies, supporting users from the earliest stages of ideation through to implementation.
The system aggregates a unified data model built from over 50 sources, with the flexibility to integrate primary data when available. It leverages advanced algorithms to predict life cycle assessment outcomes based on initial concept descriptions, quantifies critical environmental impacts such as CO₂ emissions, water usage, and energy consumption, and provides targeted recommendations for sustainability improvements.
To get started, users just need to provide a brief description of the product they intend to assess. If there’s additional information or reference data, it can be appended to improve the predictions.
In order to be able to able to estimate environmental impacts, key characteristics of the product and it’s life cycles are predicted and visualized. Users can check those predictions and iterate if required.
After the key characteristics have been validated, users can start the simulation of the life cycle model that will be used for sustainability impact calculations.
As a result, users can navigate through the product structure to identify critical components. Life cycle stages for assemblies and components are modelled and quantified to inform about impact drivers.
To guide the development of optimization strategies, orbit provides a chat interaction that informs about potential strategies. It also evaluates and compares the effectiveness of each strategy, providing clear insights into their relative impact.
📅 2023/2024
💼 orbit
🧔 Felix Laarmann, Marcel Krause, Corinna Hirt, Robin Bork, Gregor Tätzner
(Mathias Kohn, Mariana Navarro García)
