01 — Choose the product family
The user starts by selecting the family matching the product they want to declare: press-locked gratings, electroforged gratings or industrial flooring.
Press-locked gratings
Electroforged gratings
Industrial flooring
Case study · Distributor FDES configurator · Industry
How MEISER distributes FDES across its whole catalogue with a configurator
Ailoop built MEISER a distributor FDES configurator that generates an FDES (the French EPD format, Fiche de Déclaration Environnementale et Sanitaire) matching the characteristics of the product ordered and its delivery to the construction site.
Ailoop built the MEISER FDES configurator for its ranges of press-locked gratings, electroforged gratings and industrial flooring.
The project at a glance
- Client
- MEISER
- Sector
- Metalworking
- Scope
- Press-locked gratings, electroforged gratings, industrial flooring
- Solution
- Distributor FDES configurator
- Deliverables
- FDES PDF · INIES XML · Excel
MEISER, manufacturer of gratings and industrial flooring
MEISER is a German industrial group specialising, among other things, in the manufacture of metal gratings and industrial flooring solutions.
For its products sold on the French building market, the company must be able to provide environmental data matching the characteristics of its different ranges.
The three product families built into the configurator
Press-locked gratings
Electroforged gratings
Industrial flooring
How does MEISER provide an FDES matching the product ordered, transport to the construction site included?
MEISER sells gratings and industrial flooring whose characteristics can vary from one order to the next: dimensions, material, galvanising, surface density or manufacturing process.
For the FDES to truly reflect the order, the delivery distance to the construction site and the related transport impacts also had to be taken into account.
All of these elements therefore had to be taken into account to calculate the environmental impacts that truly match the order.
- Product orderedGrating or industrial flooring
- Actual characteristicsDimensions, material, galvanising…
- Construction siteDelivery distance
FDES matching the order
Why did Ailoop choose a distributor FDES configurator for MEISER?
MEISER wanted to give its customers an FDES matching the product ordered precisely, taking into account its dimensions, its finishes and the impacts of transport to the construction site.
The distributor FDES configurator suited this need because it relies on an environmental model and a scope verified upstream. The configurations covered can then be generated without a new individual verification, as long as they stay within that scope.
- MEISER’s needAn FDES matching the order
- ConstraintsProduct + finishes + transport to site
- Chosen solutionDistributor FDES configurator
- WhyModel and scope verified upstream
- Distributor FDES configurator
- Business web application
An FDES configurator designed around MEISER’s products
Three product families, their business parameters and the project’s environmental model brought together in a single web application.
How does the MEISER FDES configurator work?
Starting from the verified environmental model, the user generates their FDES in three steps.
02 — Enter the product characteristics
The form adapts to the selected family and lets the user enter the parameters needed for the environmental calculation.
- Raw material
- Bar size and mesh size
- Sheet width and thickness
- Surface density
- Hot-dip galvanising
- Construction site postcode
Depending on the family, the form only shows the parameters that apply to it.
The construction site postcode brings the transport distance into the data used to calculate the environmental impacts of the configuration.
Each choice is linked to the data and rules of the LCA model built into the configurator.
03 — Generate the results
Once the product characteristics and delivery details are entered, the configurator generates the FDES matching the configuration ordered.
- Product
- Characteristics
- Transport to the construction site
- Matching FDES
Which deliverables does the MEISER configurator generate?
FDES in PDF format
The document brings together the environmental and technical information matching the generated configuration.
INIES XML
The data can be structured in the XML format intended for use in the relevant processes and tools.
Excel data
The detailed results can also be used in tabular form for internal analysis and processing.
Under the hood
From MEISER’s data to automated FDES generation
Ailoop turned the project’s data and environmental model into a business application that generates the related deliverables automatically.
MEISER data
Collection and structuring of product data and transport data.
Environmental model
Integration of the LCA expertise and the project rules.
Business application
Parameter entry and automated calculation of the results.
Deliverables
FDES · INIES XML · Excel
Who did what on the MEISER project?
WeLOOP — Environmental expertise
- LCA modelling
- Environmental data
- Methodology and rules
- FDES expertise
Ailoop — Digitalisation
- Structuring of data and business rules
- Application development
- Calculation automation
- Deliverable generation
The MEISER project combines environmental modelling, data structuring and software development to turn an LCA model into a distributor FDES configurator usable across several product ranges.
200 FDES published on INIES from the MEISER configurator
- FDES published in the INIES programme
- 200
The configurator also enabled MEISER to generate and publish on INIES, the French national EPD database, a large number of FDES variants matching the configurations covered.
- product combinations covered
- 678
- product families
- 3
- to generate an FDES
- < 1 min
An FDES matching the product ordered
Each FDES reflects the characteristics of the configuration ordered, transport to the construction site included, rather than a generic declaration.
FDES generated independently
MEISER’s teams generate their FDES themselves, without LCA skills: the environmental expertise is built into the tool.
FDES available at the right time
FDES are generated instantly. As the tool is verified, those that stay within its scope can be used on the market straight away.
The MEISER project in brief
Ailoop built MEISER a distributor FDES configurator covering three families of gratings and industrial flooring. It generates an FDES matching the product characteristics and transport to the construction site, then produces the related PDF, INIES XML and Excel deliverables. The project’s LCA modelling was carried out with WeLOOP.
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Do you need to produce FDES for several products or configurations?
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