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TCAce software integrates environmental life cycle assessment and scenario-based risk analysis to provide a complete understanding of all potential environmental and health related costs associated with a process or product. With applications in product, process, and facility investment decision-making, TCAce allows the user to implement the Total Cost Assessment (TCA) methodology developed in collaboration with industry. TCAce integrates scenario case studies and sensitivity/ uncertainty/risk analysis into your existing economic evaluation framework to give you the information you need to make sound decisions that consider all environmental, health, and safety issues. Companies have estimated that a single TCAce analysis has improved expected decision profitability by millions of dollars.
When used effectively, TCAce
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Protects and improves brand value
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Dramatically reduces manufacturing costs
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Identifies best environmental and economic options
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Maximizes profit and reduces risks
TCAce
- Provides for complete assessment of environmental and environ-mentally- related human health costs
- Integrates life cycle assessment with life cycle cost analysis
- Facilitates and documents collaborative scenario planning
- Provides input for process, project, or corporate-level investment decision making
- Applies
to a broad range of business environments
How did
TCAce come about?
An industry collaboration of ten companies led by the American Institute
of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Center for Waste Reduction Technologies
(CWRT) developed the Total Cost Assessment
methodology. This team defined the requirements for TCAce as a tool to
support and extend the TCA methodology. Sylvatica developed the software,
which was then tested and approved by the CWRT industry collaboration.
In
what types of decisions can TCAce assist?
Designed for internal managerial decision making, TCAce can help determine
design, focus, or investment areas for any size project, process, or business
decision.
- Should we use ethanol or another solvent in our process?
- Should our plant be located in an urban or a rural location?
- Where should we focus our E&H dollars?
- Is product
A or product B more likely to have E&H consequences and costs in
the future?
Who Needs TCAce?
- Product/process designers in the design stage of new products and processes
- Engineers in the assessment of environmental projects
- Business managers and analysts in developing product and business strategy
- Environmental managers, to determine financial priorities and to reduce a company's future risks and liabilities
- Investors, to assess an enterprise's E&H risk and liabilities
- Owners and shareholders, because of the potential impact environmental costs may have on the financial return on their investment in the enterprise
- Customers, suppliers, regulators, and anyone else interested in determining total costs related to environmental issues
TCAce
comes with:
TCAce is based on the powerful Analytica tool, and the TurboPlayer version
is included when you make your purchase (more powerful versions are
avavailable on request). TCAce also includes the documentation, manual
tools, and data developed
by the AIChE.
"TCAce
is being selectively piloted in Dow Chemical with positive results.
I see TCA as an important tool in achieving the sustainable development
objectives out-lined in the Dow 'Public Report 1999'."
Duane Koch, Waste Minimization Manager, Dow Chemical
About
Sylvatica
Founded in 1996, Sylvatica brings economic benefits of environmental
consciousness to industries around the world. Through corporate consulting
and easy-to-use products, Sylvatica has helped hundreds of companies
improve their environmental record while improving their bottom line.
www.sylvatica.com
TCAce was
developed in collaboration with a consortium of member companies of
the AIChE CWRT: Bristol-Myers Squibb, The Dow Chemical Company, Eastman
Chemical, Eastman Kodak, Georgia Pacific, Merck, Monsanto, Owens Corning,
Rohm & Haas, and GlaxoSmithKline; with support from the US Department
of Energy/Office of Industrial Technologies and the National Business
Roundtable Industrial Pollution Prevention Council.
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