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Life-Cycle Assessment Software for Designing Aircraft Solution by: Fraunhofer IBP
This eco design software tool, offers quick and detailed life-cycle analysis of complex aircraft by simple means.
The Triple Bottom Line
Environmental With more than 35,000 new aircraft being built by 2032, there is a need to substantially reduce environmental impacts through eco design of new aircraft fleets. 1
SOCIAL Reducing the impacts of air travel can make its benefits accessible to more people without substantially damaging the environment.
Economic Environmentally improved air travel saves costs through reduced resource consumption and optimized processes. Developed: Germany
ENDAMI supports aircraft developers with information about the environmental impacts of their design choices at any time throughout the entire design process. Tapping into readily available information at aircraft companies, the software can automatically create environmental models of complex aircraft using a database of 25 years of environmental research. The easy-to-use interface and the high degree of automation guarantee a smooth integration of environmental considerations into existing structures. ENDAMI also ensures compliance with the latest European and international standards. The software is ready to use and has been tested on full-scale by the major players of the European aviation industry – from producers of large passenger aircraft to business jets and helicopters, as well as material and component suppliers. Market entry is targeted for 2014. Why a Sustainia100 solution? ENDAMI addresses the environmental impacts of building new aircraft. Implementation will add virtually no costs to traditional design processes. The modular and flexible structure of ENDAMI is readily adaptable to other products and sectors.
ENDAMI helps to visualize the environmental improvements and trouble spots of particular design choices within seconds.
Deployed: France, Germany, Italy, UK, and Israel
“With Eco-Design tools, like ENDAMI, Fraunhofer contributes to a society rich in products while minimizing environmental Impacts .” Boeing: Current Market Outlook 2013-2032. www.boeing.com. 2013.
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Prof. Reimund Neugebauer, President, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
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