SimaPro

In today's world, where sustainability matters to both businesses and consumers, having tools that offer clear insights into environmental impacts is essential. SimaPro, created by PRé Sustainability, is a top choice for life cycle assessment (LCA) software, helping organizations make smarter, more sustainable decisions.

"Like no other, we know transparency contributes to a better, more sustainable world. The facts are the facts. Let’s use life cycle information as fuel for better actions and practices."

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Key Features

1. SimaPro includes access to numerous Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) databases, such as Ecoinvent and the US LCI database. These databases contain extensive data on materials, processes, and products, providing a solid foundation for accurate LCA studies.

2. The software supports various Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) methods, including ReCiPe, ILCD, and TRACI. These methods allow users to evaluate multiple environmental impact categories, such as climate change, human toxicity, and resource depletion.

3. SimaPro enables users to model different scenarios, allowing for comparisons between various product designs, materials, and processes.

4. Users can tailor SimaPro to their specific needs by adding custom processes and datasets, creating detailed models, and conducting sensitivity analyses.

5. The software offers reporting tools that help generate clear and comprehensive reports, facilitating effective communication of findings to stakeholders, clients, and regulatory bodies.

6. SimaPro supports multi-user functionality, making it easier for teams to collaborate on projects and share data within their organizations.

7. The software can be integrated with other tools and platforms, such as Excel and MATLAB, enhancing data analysis and reporting capabilities.

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SimaPro Craft

SimaPro Craft, previously known as SimaPro Desktop, is a life cycle assessment (LCA) software that helps businesses, designers, engineers, and sustainability experts understand the environmental impact of their products and processes.

Let’s say you’re designing a new product and want to know its carbon footprint or how much water it uses. SimaPro Craft can help you gather and analyze this information so you can make better decisions to improve sustainability. It’s like having a sustainability expert in software form, helping you transform numbers into meaningful insights.

What Makes SimaPro Craft Stand Out?

SimaPro Craft offers tools for scenario and uncertainty analysis, helping you explore "what-if" situations. For example, you can test how using different materials or production methods affects your product's environmental footprint. You can also customize your analysis to fit your specific needs, making the software flexible for various projects.

On top of that, the software doesn’t just give you numbers—it breaks down every detail of your life cycle model. You can see exactly where the environmental hotspots are (like excessive emissions or waste) and identify opportunities to improve. This makes it easier to communicate findings with your team or stakeholders.

Turning Data into Action

SimaPro Craft takes complex data and makes it actionable. It’s perfect for things like sustainability reporting, measuring carbon and water footprints, assessing biodiversity impacts, and even designing more eco-friendly products.

Empowering the Next Generation of Sustainability Professionals

Sustainability is becoming more important in every industry, from product design to policymaking. With the growing need for environmental experts, SimaPro Craft is also an excellent teaching tool. It’s used in schools and training programs to educate future professionals on how to conduct life cycle assessments and develop sustainable solutions.

Rich Database for Comprehensive Analysis

SimaPro Craft comes with a wide range of life cycle inventory (LCI) databases. These include Agri-footprint, ecoinvent v3, and databases from the EU, Danish Input-Output models, and more. Users can even download additional databases for free, such as Agribalyse, EXIOBASE, and WEEE.

Having access to such comprehensive data allows businesses to get a full picture of their environmental impact. For instance, if you’re producing food products, the Agri-footprint database can help you analyze the environmental impact of your supply chain, from farming to packaging.

In short, choose SimaPro Craft if you need an advanced, detailed LCA tool for in-depth analysis and reporting.

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SimaPro Synergy

SimaPro Synergy, like SimaPro Craft, is a tool designed to help organizations make informed sustainability decisions. However, it is tailored for different use cases and needs. SimaPro Synergy is designed for scalability and collaboration, helping organizations integrate sustainability metrics into everyday decision-making. It’s better suited for teams or companies that want to connect LCA insights across multiple systems and scale them to larger portfolios or workflows.

What Makes SimaPro Synergy Unique?

1. Flexible Integration:
SimaPro Synergy connects sustainability metrics to your existing systems. Whether you use design tools, purchasing systems, or custom software, Synergy can integrate seamlessly. This means you don’t have to switch between platforms—sustainability becomes part of your workflow.

2. Scalable Solutions:
The software is built to handle everything from single-product assessments to entire product portfolios. For instance, it allows you to automate data input using APIs and scale calculations for large datasets.

3. Transparent Results:
With SimaPro Synergy, you get a clear understanding of what’s driving your environmental impacts. The transparent calculations and detailed results help you identify hotspots and make informed decisions to improve your processes.

4. Configurable Models:
You can use configurable LCA models to calculate environmental impacts for entire product portfolios. This is especially helpful for large companies managing diverse products or services.

5. APIs for Automation:
SimaPro Synergy lets you automate processes by connecting directly to your systems using APIs. For example, you can set up automatic data updates for new product launches, ensuring sustainability metrics stay up-to-date.

6. Company Library for Specific Data:
This feature allows you to use your own data with SimaPro while starting with secondary data. Over time, you can replace generalized data with precise, company-specific datasets, giving you more accurate insights.

Embedding Sustainability Across Your Organization

SimaPro Synergy integrates with tools your teams already use, like design or purchasing software, ensuring everyone can access and work with sustainability data. By collaborating with IT teams or system integrators, you can fully embed these insights into your operations.

Enhance Your Software with Environmental Data

If you create software for clients, SimaPro Synergy can enhance your product by adding real-time sustainability insights. This feature lets your customers measure, report, and improve their environmental performance while maintaining full control over their data.

Why SimaPro Synergy?

SimaPro Synergy is perfect for businesses looking to make sustainability data a central part of their strategy. It’s scalable, flexible, and integrates easily with existing tools, making it a great choice for companies managing complex operations or large portfolios. Whether you’re tracking emissions, improving supply chain practices, or helping clients understand their environmental impact, Synergy empowers you to take meaningful action.

In short, choose SimaPro Synergy if you’re looking for a scalable, collaborative solution that integrates sustainability data into your organization’s day-to-day decision-making and workflows.

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Expert Insights

"We have been using SimaPro for many years and for a wide range of products from high voltage switchgears and transformers to wind turbines and power plants. In our multi-user setup, we take advantage of the user-friendly interface and the extensive database with the most relevant materials and processes."

– Falko Parthey, Head of Environmental Protection and Sustainability at Siemens AG Energy Management Division

"We have been using SimaPro for over a decade now. Currently as a server application, which is much more convenient when you have several users. We often need to go deep into the inventory to see where specific impacts come from, with SimaPro this is possible. Also, working with parameters makes SimaPro extra valuable."

– Tom Ligthart, LCA and sustainability expert at a scientific research institute

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Pricing

SimaPro offers several pricing plans tailored to different user needs, both for business and educational purposes:

• SimaPro Expert: €5,900 annually. This plan includes scenario analysis, uncertainty calculation, and access to multiple databases like ecoinvent v3 and Agri-footprint. It’s available as a single or multi-user license and includes the Report Maker add-on.

• SimaPro Power: €7,564 annually. It includes all features of the Expert plan plus additional capabilities like hiding confidential data and linking to other tools like Excel and SQL databases.

• SimaPro PhD: €2,630 annually. Designed for PhD students, it includes advanced features suitable for comprehensive LCA studies.

• SimaPro Faculty: €3,800 annually. Ideal for teaching, this plan supports easy modelling and interactive results analysis for one lecturer and their students.

For detailed information and additional options, you can visit the SimaPro pricing page.

Closing Insights

SimaPro helps organizations measure and improve the environmental impact of their products and operations. Whether you need detailed analysis with Craft or scalable solutions with Synergy, SimaPro makes sustainability data clear, actionable, and easy to integrate into your workflow.

If you're curious about how SimaPro can support your work, why not see it in action? You can request a free demo and explore its capabilities firsthand by visiting this link.