Umberto

Analyze the environmental impacts of your company and its products. Create sustainable products, optimize the ecological footprint and improve business sustainability.

Carbon Footprint according to ISO 14067, GHG Protocol and PAS 2050
Life Cycle Assessment according to ISO 14040
Support for the generation of Environmental Product Declarations (EPD)
Integrated LCI database: ecoinvent & Carbon Minds
Including Cost Accounting & MFCA

Umberto - know the flow

LCA Software for Life Cycle Assessment

Umberto is one of the best LCA software solutions and is recommended by users from industry, manufacturing, consulting, research & education.

Analyzing the environmental impact and carbon footprint of products poses a major challenge. Our solution supports you step by step and offers the following advantages for you and your company:

Full Transparency
Get a clear overview of the entire product lifecycle with the help of graphical modeling and comprehensive reporting on your life cycle assessments.

Fast and Reliable results
Get your LCA results faster than ever thanks to the fast calculation performance. The integration of the most common LCA methods and LCA & LCI databases allow reliable analyses of environmental impacts.

Profound Basis for Decision-Making
Identify relevant environmental hotspots and use scenario analysis to calculate exactly how effective your improvement measures will be before investing. Make the right decisions to make your company and its product more sustainable.

Eco-Efficiency by Saving Resources and Costs
Benefit from the integrated cost accounting to create eco-efficient products. Combine environmental performance optimization and resource efficiency on your way to real product sustainability.

Why Companies Use Our Tool for Life Cycle Assessment

Accurate Assessments

Umberto helps companies analyze energy, emissions, resources, and waste throughout their product life cycle, ensuring accurate environmental assessments.

Data-Driven Decisions

Umberto enables quick and easy integration of company-specific primary data and provides access to comprehensive LCI databases, empowering companies to make informed decisions based on reliable and relevant information.

Sustainability Reporting

Umberto helps companies adhere to sustainability regulations and standards, aligning practices with industry guidelines to demonstrate commitment to Environmental Social Governance (ESG) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

Optimize Sustainability

Umberto supports users to identify environmental hotspots and improve sustainability performance. Through scenario analyses, users can assess the impacts of different choices and optimize their environmental practices.

Engage Stakeholders

Umberto facilitates effective communication by generating comprehensive reports and visualizations. Showcase environmental performance to customers, investors, and regulatory bodies, fostering engagement and transparency.

Streamline Processes

Umberto enhances the LCA process, saving time and resources. With user-friendly interfaces, automated calculations, and integration capabilities, companies can improve overall efficiency.

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Features of Our LCA Software

Easy-to-use Software with High Performance

• Benefit from an easy-to-use and intuitive user interface

• Get a holistic understanding of processes and product life cycle through graphic modelling

• Calculate even large and complex models faster than ever

Generic Models for Calculation of Product Portfolios

• Use your existing bills of materials (BOMs) and production orders of products for the calculation

• Reduce effort and ease comparability by calculating different products within one model

• Lay the foundation for scalability and LCA automation

Easy Import and Update of Data

• Import or link data from Microsoft Excel to automatically update changes in Umberto

• Import bills of materials and production orders and flexibly adapt entries if needed

• Save time and costs using the intregrated LCA databases (ecoinvent or Carbon Minds)

Various Assessment Methods Available

• Product and Corporate Carbon Footprints (CCF und PCF)

• Environmental Product Declarations (EPD)

• Life Cycle Assessement (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC)

• Cost and loss analysis (including MFCA)

Analysis of Environmental Impact and Costs along the Entire Life Cycle

• Vary and combine indicators of different environmental assessment methods according to your needs

• Analyze and identify hot spots supported through sankey diagram options and supply chain analysis

• Individually consider different life cycle phases, departments, and controlling areas in your analysis

• Increase your company's resource efficiency using the integrated cost and material loss analysis

Scenario Analysis & Management for Validation of Improvements

• Calculate the success of your improvement measures before investing in it using scenario analysis

• Create and calculate individual scenarios tailored to your needs

• Compare different scenarios by varying parameters, production orders and data set selection

Comprehensible Result Presentation

• Present your results in an comprehensible, appealing way using integrated Sankey diagram visualization

• Export your results to Microsoft Excel and comfortably create Pivot tables

• Benefit from the new export format (JSON) to use your results in other analyzing tools such as BI solutions

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Demo Video

How to conduct an LCA in Umberto step by step? Take advantage of our demo video to learn more about our powerful lca software:

Tool overview
Step by step to an LCA
The most important software features
LCA automation

VIDEO

Case Study Jabra

Watch the video with Albert Brønd, Sustainability Engineer at Jabra who will give insights about data analysis in the electronics industry and shares results of their Life Cycle Assessments performed with our LCA software Umberto.

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Umberto - Recommended by Experts

"At Miele, we use Life Cycle Analyses especially when faced with fundamental decisions in product development. Miele has an excellent reputation with both customers and stakeholders, so we make sure our products are not only high in value for the customer but are also beneficial for the environment. We use Umberto in our daily business, so we can easily exchange data and material flow models with our long-time partner, the Öko-Institut (Institute for Applied Ecology)."

Marko Schnarr, Miele & Cie. KG

"As a leading supplier of process and packaging technology, the use phase is particularly relevant for Syntegon in the life cycle assessment of its machines. The scenario analysis in Umberto helps us to compare processes and identify optimizations. In this way, we offer our customers in the pharmaceutical and food industries the opportunity to reduce resource consumption and costs. With Umberto, the complete package of software, training & coaching convinced us. Within one year we managed to go from project start to critical review."

Steffen Carbon, Coordination Design for Environment, Syntegon Technology

"CPF is the leading food company which is committed to providing sustainable food throughout the world. We have obtained 152 certificates of product carbon footprint and reduction carbon footprint. Umberto is used to derive assessments and indicators demanded by our customers and to support decision-making for improving products and processes. Umberto is a great support for our sustainability efforts!"

Kularb Kimsri, Vice President Global Standard System Centre, Charoen Pokphand Foods Pcl., Thailand

"Umberto is a great option for us to model our complex petro chemical processes. We already have compared the carbon balances of different scenarios using CO2 as a resource for ammonia production and we plan to extend the use of Umberto for the Greenhouse Gas management in our refineries."

Dr. Miguel A. Morales Mora, PEMEX Petroquimica, Mexiko

„It is my task to systematically and scientifically analyze material cycles, identify optimization potential, and present the results to our corporate clients. Umberto helps me with all these tasks. I benefit from the flexibility of the software and its features every day.“

Dr. Jörg Nispel, Fraunhofer Project Group IWKS

"Resource efficiency requires knowledge of all relevant energy and material flows. We therefore use software for our projects that enable a flexible approach. Umberto meets our standards perfectly."

Prof. Dr. Mario Schmidt, Institute for Industrial Ecology, Pforzheim University