Process information
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| Reference year | 2024 |
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| Use advice for data set | The life cycle assessment of the REX610, an EEPS (Electronic and Electrical Products and Systems), is a “cradle-to-grave” analysis. The figure below shows the product life cycle stages and the information considered in the LCA. In terms of exclusions from the system boundary, according to EN50693, capital goods such as machinery, tools, buildings, infrastructure, packaging for internal transports, and administrative activities, which cannot be allocated directly to the production of the reference product, are excluded. Infrastructures, when present, such as in processes deriving from the ecoinvent database, have not been excluded. Scraps for metal working and plastic processes are also included when already defined in ecoinvent. |
| Technical purpose of product or process | REX610 is a member of the renowned Relion® protection and control family of relays. It is a freely configurable all in one protection relay covering the full range of basic utility, industrial, transport and infrastructure applications for protection, control, measurement, condition monitoring, logging, communication, and supervision of power distribution systems. |
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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 and technical drawings, while site specific foreground data are provided by ABB. For all processes for which primary data are not available, generic data originating from the ecoinvent v3.9.1 database, “allocation, cut-off by classification”, are used. The LCA software used for the calculations is SimaPro 9.5. The utility consumption and waste generation of ABB’s manufacturing site are allocated to the production of one REX610 relay by using allocation rules. Because the plant is also handling “box-build” products, a part of the total utility and waste is allocated based on production hours to relevant “box-build” products. The remaining amounts related to the relay production are then allocated per relay based on production volumes. Moreover, utility consumption and waste generation deriving from offices and administrative activities are not excluded and 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. According to EN 50693, the cut-off criteria can be set to a maximum of 5 % of the overall environmental impacts. In this LCA, stickers, labels, tape, and staples used in the packaging have been excluded as their weights are negligible. Thermal paste used in the electronics is also excluded due to the unavailability of data. |
| Copyright | Yes |
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| Data set valid until | 2029 |
| Time representativeness description | 2024-01-16 - 2029-01-16 |
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Modelling and validation
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Compliance system name
EN 15804+A2
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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 |
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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) | 2025-09-29T18:37:05 |
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| UUID | 6562d85f-0286-42b0-ab90-4b0b18714d48 |
| Date of last revision | 2025-09-28T19:04:01.9223697Z |
| Data set version | 00.03.000 |
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| Registration number | NEPD-5813-5101-EN |
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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