This paper describes a Life Cycle Engineering approach which is able to optimize a product under technical, ecological and economical requirements. It shows the method and the importance of integration into company business processes and IT-landscapes.
Future challenges on environmental sound products need adapted solutions. This paper deals with a method and softwaretools required to support the designer to cope with this challenges. After a short introduction, the background and the score of development of this method is described, followed by different steps of further developments.