News
05/07/2013
ecoinvent v3 launched
Umberto NXT LCA is currently the only LCA software for the new database.
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08/25/2013 to 08/28/2013
LCM 2013 in Gothenborg
6th International Conference on Life Cycle Management in Gothenborg with ifu Hamburg
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09/11/2013 to 09/12/2013
Umberto User Workshop 2013 in Essen
The most important date for Umberto users from all over the world.
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Life Cycle Assessment, Environmental Management or Improved Productivity - Umberto means Variety
The software Umberto is applied in various projects - Here we show you why:
- Assess your products and processes on economic, ecological and social criteria!
- Model production processes and material and energy flows or carbon footprints!
- Visualize processes and Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) with illustrative diagrams.
- Optimize costs, resource consumption and your environmental performance!
A look at the functions and features of Umberto
Basic functions
Materials
- List of materials with ecological properties
- User-definable material properties
Net Editor
- Easy construction of process maps with easy-to-use drawing elements
- Sankey diagrams for clear visualization
- Hierarchical models
Flexible Process Specification
- Simple linear coefficients
- Efficient parameterized process descriptions – non-linear if required
- Use of scripting languages such as Python and JavaScript
Calculation and Evaluation
Calculation
- Interactive calculation method
- Dynamic modeling for circuit calculation
- Scenario calculation
- Accruals accounting
- Carbon footprint calculations according to PAS 2050, GHG Protocol Product Accounting & Reporting Standard, and soon to ISO 14067
Sensitivity Analysis
- Semi-automated generation of variants
- Consideration of data quality
- Monte Carlo simulation
Performance Measurement Systems
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
- Creation/modification of own performance measurement systems
Balances and Life Cycle Assessments
- Mass and energy balances for the entire system and any arbitrary subsystems
- Balance sheet analysis for processes, products, envelope boundaries and flows
- Consideration of stocks and stock changes
- Graphical analysis of the balance as two or three-dimensional pie and bar charts, radar charts, time series and more
- Compare alternative scenarios, products or observation periods (in days, months and years)
Process Libraries
- Build your own process libraries
- Extensive documentation capacity
- Over 4000 ecoinvent data records for free use
- Hundreds of other data records from different sources
- Import and export of data records in EcoSpold format
- Over 20 indicators and measurement systems for life cycle assessment
- All data is adaptable, transparent and well-documented
- Multilingual process descriptions
- Storage and reuse of submodels
Cost Calculation
- Direct material costs
- Process costs
- Independent definition of cost elements and plans
- Individual choice of key variables (cost drivers)
- Planned cost calculation and marginal costing
- Provision of fixed and variable costs per cost center
- Cost unit accounting
- Tabular and graphical representation of costs and evaluations
- Sankey diagrams of total, individual product, or product unit cost
Interfaces
- Umberto-Integrator for connecting to ERP systems – SAP certified
- Import of material lists, costs and process specifications from MS Excel
- Export of material lists, results balances, cost analyses and key performance indicators (KPI) to MS Excel
- Export of Sankey diagrams and all other graphical representations in standard formats
- EcoSpold import and export for independent exchange of LCA data sets
Documentations and Reports
Documentation
- Comprehensive manual
- Online Support
- my.Umberto.de User Forum
Reports
- Predefined print reports
- User-definable Excel templates for balance export
- Graphical analyses and Sankey diagrams in various graphics formats
Learn more about the special features of Umberto NXT LCA and download the 14 day free trial.
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