1. A3: Microeconomic sustainability assessment – Challenge Page 1  Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA)  Data collection  Different maturity of the implemented environmental, social and economic assessment methods  Improve flexibility of the framework to fit different countries within respective value chains  Enhance the developed approaches to reach a general applicability  Sustainable manufacturing community  Communicate knowledge regarding social, environmental and economic impacts  Assess production, use and end-of-life processes on a life cycle basis Author‘s contribution

2. A3: Microeconomic sustainability assessment – Approach Page 2  Life cycle approach  Measurement and assessment of sustainability  Implementation of practical case studies for products & processes  Transfer of indicators into practice  Gap analysis and further development of existing methodologies  Critical review of LCA, SLCA, and LCC  Development of methodologies for assessing sustainability in both theoretical and practical application  Tiered approach  Sustainability Safeguard Star Author‘s contribution

3. A3: Microeconomic sustainability assessment – Results 2014  Implementing of four LCSA case studies in the fields of mobility, production & energy Bicycles and pedelecs LeG²O machine tool frames

4. A3: Microeconomic sustainability assessment – Results 2014 Page 4  Identification of hotspots for the single processes Turning processes for turbine parts CountryProcess steps Risk of not reaching the poverty line Risk of extensive working hours Health risk GermanyManufacturinglow Russia Titanium processing mediumlowmedium China Tungsten processing high medium Kongo Cobalt processing very high high - very high Welding technologies