Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing for PSS

The increasing awareness towards sustainability issues from both practitioners and customers makes it necessary to adopt a lifecycle perspective since the design phase of PSSs. In this chapter, a tool aimed at carrying out the Life Cycle Assessment (called MaGA) and one for the Life Cycle Costing (called BAL.LCPA) are introduced starting from the analysis of requirements carried out to make sure their use is suitable in a PSS design context. In order to seamlessly include environmental and economic considerations into the design process, the two stand-alone tools have been integrated with the Manutelligence design platform. Their application in a Fablab-like environment is described to show how they interact with design tools and to provide examples of the results they get.