What is LCAPIX?
The LCA Life Cycle
Index Module (PIX) consists of
1. LCAPIX Application and Database
2. Online help and support
3. A Printed Manual
This user friendly software can help your business assure environmental compliance while
assuring sustained profitability. Also, LCAPIX can greatly aid your company in achieving
the ISO 14000 certification, a must for any business that desires to succeed
well into the 21st Century.
LCAPIX Module Objective
· To provide a stand-alone application to analyze processes and determine environmental load centers.
· Develop a comprehensive database for relevant process information in an easily storable, exchangeable, and evaluative format.
· To assist in achieving ISO/RC/4000 Certification using Life Cycle Assessment
The Advantages of LCAPIX Module
1. Provides inexpensive, rapid, and simple LCA strategic, environmental comparisons of any product, process or service.
2. Allows for addition and access of general databases (e.g. Boustead, TELLUS, TME, etc.) to perform valuation based on various methodologies.
3. Performs LCA and ABC simultaneously, not only for implementing an effective environmental management strategy (EMS), but also to ensure future efficiency and profitability.
4. Converts LCA impact analysis information into suitable form (graphical and numerical reports) for inclusion in managerial and executive situations.
5. Allows each LCA stage (inventory, impact assessment, improvement) to be performed independently.
6. Builds a process hierarchy inventory of industrial systems, calculates process substance amounts, and determines the process substance Environmental Load Units (ELU's), in the case of the EPS (Environmental Protection Strategy, a database compiled by Chalmers University - Sweden) methodology.
7. Once one process inventory is completed, many calculations or "cases", can be determined in the analysis stage.
LCAPIX is written in PowerBuilder 4.0.
The system requirements for LCAPIX are:
OS: Windows 95, 98, 2000 or XP (with Sybase SQL Anywhere 5.0 installed)
Hardware: IBM compatible computer with at least 64 MB RAM, Pentium processor or higher.