Process information
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| Location | DE |
| Geographical representativeness description | Global: Manufacturing and distribution Europe: Use and end-of-life |
| Reference year | 2024 |
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| Use advice for data set | The life cycle analysis of the REX640, an EEPS (Electronic and Electrical Products and Systems), is a “from cradle to grave” analysis and covers the following main life cycle stages according to EN 50693: Manufacturing stage, including the relevant upstream process (e.g. acquisition of raw material, preparation of semi-finished goods, etc.) and the main manufacturing and processing steps; distribution stage; installation stage, including the relevant steps for the preparation of the product for use; use stage, including the re-quired maintenance steps within the RSL (reference service life) associated to the reference product; end-of-life stage, including the necessary steps until and for the final disposal or recovery of the product system. The following figure shows the stages of the product life cycle and the information stages according to the PCR EPDItaly007 for the evaluation of electronic and electrical products and systems. More specifically, the stages of the product life cycle and the information considered for the evaluation of the REX640 are the following: • The upstream manufacturing stage: This includes the acquisition of raw materials as well as production and transportation of semi-finished parts, components, and sub-assemblies from both direct and indirect suppliers to ABB. Production losses are also included. • The core manufacturing stage: This includes the final assembling and testing at the local manufacturing site in Finland. It also includes the utility consumptions and the waste generated at the sites as well as the production and use of packaging materials. • The distribution stage: This includes all activities related to the distribution and transportation of the final product to the site of installation. • The installation stage: This includes the end of life of the packaging materials. • The use stage: This includes the power consumption throughout the reference service life of the product. • The end-of-life stage: This includes all activities related to waste treatment and disposal of the product at the end of its service life. |
| Technical purpose of product or process | The REX640 relay is used in utility, industrial, and transport and infrastructure applications for protection, control, measurement, and super-vision of power distribution systems. REX640 is based on an application package concept, that offer a variety of ready-made application packages to choose from. The available application packages provide feeder protection, power transformer protection, machine protection, shunt capacitor protection, busbar protection, automatic synchronization, Petersen coil control, Arc protection with supervised sensors. |
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| General comment on data set | Both primary and secondary data are used. The main sources for primary data are the bill of materials as well as technical drawings and documents. Site specific foreground data have been provided by ABB. For all processes for which primary are not available, generic data originating from the ecoinvent v3.8 database, “allocation, cut-off by classification”, are used. The ecoinvent database is available in SimaPro 9.3.0.3 which is the LCA software used for the calculations. The utility consumption and waste generation of the ABB’s production plant are allocated to the production of one relay by using allocation rules. Because the plant is focused on relay production, the total utility consumption and waste generation for 2021 are simply divided by the total output of relays during the same year. Utility consumption and waste generation deriving from offices and administrative activities are not excluded because it is not possible to accurately allocate the inventory only for the production. Thus, a conservative approach is adopted. For the end-of-life allocation, the “polluter pays” principle is adopted according to what is defined in the CEN/TR 16970 standard, as required by the PCR EPDItaly007. This means, waste treatment processes are allocated to the product system that generates the waste until the end-of-waste state is reached. The environmental burdens of recycling and energy recovery processes are therefore allocated to the product system that generates the waste, while the product system that uses the exported energy and recycled materials receives it burden-free. However, the potential benefits and avoided loads from recovery and recycling processes are not considered because it is not required by EPDItaly007. |
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| Data set valid until | 2029 |
| Time representativeness description | 2024-11-14 - 2029-11-14 |
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Compliance system name
EN 15804+A2
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Fully compliant |
Nomenclature compliance
Fully compliant |
Methodological compliance
Fully compliant |
Review compliance
Fully compliant |
Documentation compliance
Fully compliant |
Quality compliance
Fully compliant |
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Approval of overall compliance
Fully compliant |
Nomenclature compliance
Fully compliant |
Methodological compliance
Fully compliant |
Review compliance
Fully compliant |
Documentation compliance
Fully compliant |
Quality compliance
Fully compliant |
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Approval of overall compliance
Fully compliant |
Nomenclature compliance
Fully compliant |
Methodological compliance
Fully compliant |
Review compliance
Fully compliant |
Documentation compliance
Fully compliant |
Quality compliance
Fully compliant |
Administrative information
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| Time stamp (last saved) | 2025-09-01T01:42:03 |
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| UUID | 51c24d73-803d-4d1d-b9c2-592d7d7fae62 |
| Date of last revision | 2023-04-06T15:03:19.2773157Z |
| Data set version | 00.07.000 |
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| Registration number | NEPD-8013-7670 |
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| Copyright | Yes |
| License type | Free of charge for all users and uses |
| Access and use restrictions | None |
Environmental indicators
Indicators of life cycle