Industrial enterprises are increasingly forced to design their products for the environment. As environmental effects result from processes throughout the product life cycle, product and process information must be integrated in a conceptual model to realise systems of information technology that support product design and manufacturing. This paper presents a new method to derive an object-oriented information model from a life cycle oriented modelling approach. The information model consisting of a product data model and several partial models representing life cycle phases can be implemented easily, e.g. as an object-oriented database, which is a basis for life cycle impact assessment and its integration with a design system environment.
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