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Concern specific decision-making processes can be externally supported by engineering services or by tailor made software tools. The Paint Simulation Tool is such kind of a software. It consists of technical analysis, cost calculation and life cycle assessment (LCA).

Life-Cycle Simulation (LCS) is an inventory modeling approach to replace the “snap-shot” character of life-cycle inventories. Requirements of Life Cycle R&D tools and possibilities of LCS will be discussed. The goal of Life Cycle Simulation is holistic optimization of products and technologies, i.e. technical performance, economic efficiency and ecoefficiency. Worldwide applied automotive painting concepts and new painting strategies have been investigated with the LCS approach. Significant economic and environmental optimization potentials have been identified which meet the high technical performance requirements of the automotive painting process.

The automobile painting is a very energy and emission (solvents) intensive process step in the production of automobiles with regard to the small amount of paint applied to the car body. The awareness has risen that cleaner production technologies must substitute end-of-pipe control technologies. If these technologies strive for being a competitive option in corporate decision-making process, not only their environmental but also their technical and economical performance has to be on the same or better level compared to conventional technologies. The approach of Life-Cycle Engineering (LCE) by PE and IKP investigates technical, environmental and economical aspects of products and technologies. It is developed to a simulation tool to analyse weak points and optimisation potentials as well as to support product and technology development in the painting industry.

Process and material innovations are not any longer motivated only by cost-reduction potentials. Corporate decision-making processes will be more and more broadened to evaluate new technologies with regard to their technical, economical and environmental performance. Therefore, innovations have to be at least on the same, if developing potentials are feasible, or better level compared to existing technologies using this holistic view. The approach of Life-Cycle Engineering (LCE) by IKP and PE investigates technical, environmental and economical aspects of products and technologies to analyze weak points and optimization potentials as well as to support product and technology development. Design for the Environment is an important application of LCE and will be discussed for automotive painting concepts.

The approach of Life-Cycle Engineering (LCE) investigates technical, environmental and economical aspects of products and technologies to analyze weak points and optimization potentials as well as to support product and technology development. The use and the possibilities of LCE will be demonstrated with the example of three-way catalyst systems.

The automobile painting is a very energy and emission (solvents) intensive process step in the production of automobiles with regard to the small amount of paint applied to the car body. The awareness has risen that cleaner production technologies must substitute end-of-pipe control technologies. If these technologies strive for being a competitive option in corporate decision-making process, not only their environmental but also their technical and economical performance has to be on the same or better level compared to conventional technologies. The approach of Life-Cycle Engineering (LCE) by IKP and PE investigates technical, environmental and economical aspects of products and technologies to analyze weak points and optimization potentials as well as to support product and technology development. LCE methodology was applied to the comparison of 1K, 2K, waterborne and powder clear coat systems for automobile painting in a multi-client project.