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Dodd-Frank Act Section 1502: Conflict Minerals & SEC Reporting Requirements

The Dodd-Frank Act may have been signed in 2010, but Section 1502 on conflict minerals remains a critical compliance challenge for manufacturers...

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Conflict Minerals Explained: Understanding 3TG and Their Compliance Impact

Conflict minerals – tin, tungsten, tantalum, and gold (3TG) – are essential raw materials in countless modern products, from smartphones to cars and...

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Automotive Compliance Electronics Manufacturing Responsible Minerals

EU Conflict Minerals Regulation: A Compliance Imperative for Global Supply Chains

Armed conflicts and human rights abuses linked to mineral sourcing have long raised red flags. With the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation in force,...

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Automotive Compliance Manufacturing

REACH Regulation & Reporting: Navigating EU Chemicals Compliance with Confidence

A single screw coated with a restricted substance can trigger penalties across 30 countries – that’s today’s reality for manufacturers. Since 2007...

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CSRD & Scope 3: Why Value Chain Emissions Demand a Closer Look

Understanding Scope 3 emissions is no longer optional – it’s a regulatory imperative. Under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD),...

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Dodd-Frank Act Section 1502: Conflict Minerals & SEC Reporting Requirements

The Dodd-Frank Act may have been signed in 2010, but Section 1502 on conflict minerals remains a critical compliance challenge for manufacturers...

Conflict Minerals Explained: Understanding 3TG and Their Compliance Impact

Conflict minerals – tin, tungsten, tantalum, and gold (3TG) – are essential raw materials in countless modern products, from smartphones to cars and...

EU Conflict Minerals Regulation: A Compliance Imperative for Global Supply Chains

Armed conflicts and human rights abuses linked to mineral sourcing have long raised red flags. With the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation in force,...

REACH Regulation & Reporting: Navigating EU Chemicals Compliance with Confidence

A single screw coated with a restricted substance can trigger penalties across 30 countries – that’s today’s reality for manufacturers. Since 2007...

CSRD & Scope 3: Why Value Chain Emissions Demand a Closer Look

Understanding Scope 3 emissions is no longer optional – it’s a regulatory imperative. Under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD),...

Responsible Minerals: Sourcing Policy and Use in Global Supply Chains

If you manage supply chain compliance, you know the landscape has dramatically shifted. What began as conflict minerals reporting focused on 3TG...

Sustainable Product Design: Driving the Future of Responsible Manufacturing

Sustainable product design is more than just a trend; it is a necessity in today’s industrial landscape. As businesses strive to minimize their...

Navigating Automotive Regulatory Compliance in a Complex Industry

In today’s automotive industry, compliance is a strategic necessity. From hazardous substance restrictions to end-of-life vehicle directives,...

CSRD & Omnibus Proposal 2025: Key Changes, New Timeline & Impact for Your Business

On February 26, 2025, the European Commission published the long-anticipated Simplification Omnibus proposal. This legislative package forms part of...

Combining Product Compliance & Sustainability: A Must for Modern Businesses

Businesses today are no longer grappling with just product compliance or sustainability in isolation. These two dimensions are converging, driven by...

Unlocking Environmental Excellence: Substances and Materials

Materials and substances are the foundational elements used to create larger components and complete products like smartphones, vehicles, and medical...

E-Waste Dilemma: The Environmental Impact of Electronics

In today's world, electronic devices are indispensable. However, their production, use, and disposal have significant environmental impacts. The...

Navigating New Regulatory Waters: The Imperative of Balancing Human Expertise and Technological Innovation

As sustainability transitions from being a goal to an essential requirement in the automotive industry, grasping the current trends is vital. Our...

Shifting Gears for a Sustainable Future: A Financial Commitment to Compliance and Eco-Friendly Practices

Our annual Automotive Trend Survey captures the insights of compliance and sustainability experts from across the industry and reveals four key...

Prioritizing a Green Future: Sustainability Surpasses Compliance

In an era where sustainability is not just a goal but is becoming a mandate for the automotive industry, understanding the landscape is vital....

Over 50% See Growing Interest in Sustainability

The automotive sector is undergoing a significant transformation, with sustainability taking center stage. The latest iPoint Automotive Compliance &...

PFAS Regulation in the EU: From POP to REACH

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have gained global attention due to their widespread use and potential effects on human health and the...

Powering the Future: Sustainability in the Electronics Industry

In an era where electronic devices seamlessly integrate into every facet of our daily lives, the demand for sustainability in the global electronics...

EPA's New PFAS Reporting Rule Under TSCA - Covered by our Latest Rule Group

In the rapidly evolving landscape of environmental regulation, the challenge of managing Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) has become a...

Deciphering the Carbon Footprint of Car Manufacturing

According to a report by the European Environment Agency, transport was responsible for around a quarter of the EU's total CO₂ emissions in 2022....

From Tailpipe to AI: A Brief History of LCA in Automotive

To all the LCA enthusiasts and sustainability experts out there -– this one is for you. Let's take a short ride down memory lane, looking at the...

Sustainability in the Automotive Industry: Navigating the Green Road

When it comes to sustainability, all eyes are on the transport sector and the automotive industry in particular. The accelerating concern for climate...

LCA Data for Life Cycle Assessment: Unlocking Environmental Insights

In the pursuit of sustainability, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has emerged as a powerful tool for evaluating the environmental impact of products,...

Understanding PFAS: Regulations & Relevance for Companies

PFAS, or Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances, have become a significant global concern due to their prevalence and potential health and environmental...

Confidentiality-preserving data exchange to enable sustainable product management

In a recent study by the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable Product Management, co-funded by iPoint Systems, different digital methods were...

What challenges arise in the adoption of circular economy?

There is a wide range of potential benefits, clearer regulations, policies, as well as urgency (see article "How companies benefit from circular...

Breathing Life into Compliance

In the dynamic world of industrial production, compliance and regulatory conformity are crucial. On the one hand, they enable access to different...

Integration of the Catena-X PCF Rulebook into IMDS

The Catena-X automotive network has achieved a significant milestone in standardizing the requirements for CO2 footprints in the automotive industry...

Umberto 11 - Scenarios for better decisions

Sustainability Optimization Umberto supports companies in improving their environmental performance - since more than 25 years. Through analyses of...

Are there barriers to CO2 reduction in the automotive industry?

In the iPoint Sustainability & Compliance Trend Study 2022, we have gained many valuable insights. Among other things, our survey showed that 56% of...

Green speed? This is how important sustainability and CO2 reduction targets are for the automotive industry

The world is changing faster than ever before and the automotive industry is at a turning point. At a time when environmental impacts are becoming...

CSRD – Well Prepared Thanks to Data-Driven Intelligence

Sustainability in Discrete Manufacturing: Capture, Analyse, Report and Optimise. Is sustainability the new compliance? The intent behind the European...

Surprising survey results on compliance and sustainability in the automotive industry

The iPoint Compliance & Sustainability Trend Survey is one of the world's largest surveys offering insights into sustainability and compliance. Of a...

A "Paper Tiger" gets its Teeth

The EU is getting tough: CSRD. The EU is to become climate-neutral by 2050 - to achieve this goal, the "toothless paper tiger NFRD (Non Financial...

Amazon requires climate targets and emissions data from suppliers

The key to net-zero is found in the supply chain

Sustainable Manufacturing: How to Achieve a Green Production

Industrial engineering and manufacturing of products is always accompanied by the extraction and consumption of raw materials from nature and the use...

Circular Economy: a Key Factor to Sustainability

As we navigate today's global environmental challenges, the circular economy offers a refreshing perspective, showing us how to do more with less. By...

"Companies simply cannot deliver as they want."

"Companies are faced with a major problem: They simply cannot deliver as they want - there are too few LCA experts and the dynamics are too high." -

Building a Digital Circular Economy

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, the integration of digital technologies is paramount for the successful implementation of Circular...

Sustainable products are the future: in sales, compliance, and production.

Sustainability is becoming increasingly important in production in the manufacturing industry and is already a key factor for many manufacturers. The...

The iPoint Sustainability and Compliance Trends Survey 2022

Surprisingly, companies worldwide, especially in Asia, increasingly view sustainability and compliance as important factors in their business...

Implementation of digital technologies for a circular economy and sustainability management in the manufacturing sector

Understanding the ISO 14000 Family of Standards

Back in the year 1987, the International Organization for Standardization introduced a number of norms known as the ISO 9000 series. For the first...

What is an Environmental Management System? From EMAS to ISO 14001

The term environmental management system refers to a holistic and strategic framework with the introduction of which companies commit themselves to...

How companies benefit from circular economy

Converting a company to a circular economy is an important step but many business leaders aren't sure what the consequences will be. This article...

Implementation of circular economy strategies in product development

Considering aspects of the circular economy right from the product design stage is the most effective approach a company can take to improve the...

How new policies worldwide advance the Circular Economy

The growing importance of the circular economy and circular business models manifests itself in policies and regulations designed to advance the...

What is Resource & Material Efficiency for Businesses?

Resource efficiency stands for the relationship between natural raw materials or technical-economic materials and the benefits gained from their use,...

How the automotive & electronics industry transitions towards the Circular Economy

In addition to activities of legislative bodies, industry itself has set out on a path towards circular economy, sometimes moving at an even faster...

Drive business value by data analysis – iPoint CARE

Data analysis for product compliance and sustainability, like Life Cycle Assessment or Product Carbon Footprints, provide your company with a crucial...

Digital Product Passports: Pioneers for Sustainable Economy

Whether climate protection, circular economy, or resource efficiency, without transparent value and supply chains, many political targets and goals...

Digital technologies for sustainable product management in a circular economy

The increased use of digital technologies is considered as a key enabler for a more sustainable and circular economy. A recent study by the Christian...

Digital battery passports to enable circular battery ecosystems in Europe

The industry driven debate on digital battery passports as enablers of a circular economy has gained increased momentum. To bring a sustainability...

The Digital Product Passport – a prerequisite for a Circular Economy

The concept of the circular economy is gaining more and more prominence on the agendas of policymakers and industry alike. This is evidenced, e.g.,...

Eco Efficiency Analysis: Balancing Profit and Planet

In today's business landscape, companies face the dual challenge of achieving profitability while minimizing their environmental impact. This article...

Collect Data for Compliance and Sustainability – iPoint CARE

Data collection is the first step on the road to successful product compliance and sustainability in order to obtain type approval and bring a...

iPoint and BASF collaborate on Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) calculation

iPoint and BASF are collaborating on the topic of carbon footprint to drive the standardized calculation of product carbon footprints in the chemical...

Sustainability and Compliance Trends Study

The world’s largest sustainability and compliance trends survey entered its fourth round, with over 1000 responses received from experts across the...

Sustainable Product Development in a Circular Economy

The concept of circular economy is of great interest to companies since it provides a framework to align with the Sustainable Development Goals. So...

To Recycle or Not to Recycle – PVC Cable Waste is the Question

Recycling – it’s the magic word when the ill-informed think “environmental friendliness”. “Recyclable” – the number one green term that doesn’t mean...

Using blockchain to achieve the SDGs and solve social challenges

Insights into the INATBA Blockchain for Social Impact Report

The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation: A Spotlight on Finance

A conversation between Joerg Walden of iPoint and Juan Ibañez and Dr. Chris Bayer of Development International e.V.

Circular Economy Implementation in Businesses – Cross-sectoral findings

by Lukas Stumpf, Josef-Peter Schöggl, Rupert J. Baumgartner

Sustainability and Compliance Trends 2020 With a Focus on the Automotive Industry

The pandemic crisis heavily influenced the year 2020, which likely also impacted iPoint’s Trends Study 2020. However, in addition to the sudden...

Discover the iPoint Suite

The iPoint Suite offers solutions for the entire product life cycle – from design to production and use to recycling and reuse.

Duty of Care Also in Germany: The Impending Mandatory Due Diligence Legislation

At the beginning of March, German ministries published the government draft of a mandatory supply chain due diligence law...

How sustainable is the Circular Economy?

Josef-Peter Schöggl, Lukas Stumpf, Rupert J. Baumgartner

ECHA SCIP Database Explained: From REACH to WFD

The ECHA SCIP database increases transparency on hazardous substances in products. Under the EU Waste Framework Directive SCIP rules and in line with...

CO2-pricing in Germany – Significance and consequences for companies

Since January 1rst, 2021, in Germany a new CO2 pricing on fuels has been in force. It demands that from now on, a distributor will have to pay a...

Carbon Transparency – an Opportunity for Companies and the Environment

Reducing carbon emissions is undoubtedly one of the greatest challenges for companies to combat climate change. “Carbon is the new calorie”, says...

Maximizing Products’ Sustainability Performance and Circularity with Digitalization – Update on Research Activities

Anything but a standstill is currently happening in the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable Product Management: the team of the...

The Green Deal and the Circular Economy

Zero greenhouse gas emissions until 2050 The European Green Deal Communication (COM(2019) 640 final) lays out the European Commission’s plans for a...

Digitalization and collaboration – A look into the Future

More than 65% of consumers are worried about climate change, and take social and environmental impacts of products into consideration when making...

I care, you care, we care: The iPoint CARE principle

Many of our customers say that we’ve simplified the complex processes of digitalizing the lifecycles of products, materials, and supply chain...

New IUCLID version by ECHA

ECHA will release the new version of IUCLID (https://iuclid6.echa.europa.eu/) on October 28th. With that the release of version 1.0 of the SCIP...

SCIP reporting using IMDS system vs. iPoint SCIP connector

We are all aware that SCIP reporting requires a considerable effort for almost all affected companies. Thus, every form of facilitation is helpful,...

From Compliance to Sustainability – The iPoint Suite

iPoint’s software covers a lot of ground. In combination, our software products provide a broad spectrum of compliance, sustainability, and risk...

Data – the raw material required for good decision making in the transition to a Circular Economy

Properly utilized data is a valuable resource. In our increasingly digital world, most efficiency gains, reductions in cost, increases in speed, and...

Expanding compliance processes and tools to better manage sustainability

Many companies voluntarily go beyond regulatory requirements, setting higher expectations and standards supporting sustainability initiatives. Many...

Blockchain for Sustainability & Social Impact: Help Us Map the Ecosystem!

In the past few years, we’ve seen a plethora of projects and initiatives emerge, focusing on improving sustainability and delivering positive social...

End-to-end material lifecycle management is key

When it comes to materials in products, what we call “end of life” is also the “beginning-of-life”. This idea isn’t new, but only around 20 years ago...

How does Brexit affect you?

The planned transitional period will run until 31 December 2020. After the end of the transition period, EU legislation will no longer apply directly...

A Natural Path to Managing Material Lifecycles

Meeting all local and global regulatory requirements is a must for all companies doing business in the 21st century. Consequently, a robust material...

The current state of material compliance management

Materials and substances used in manufacturing plants need to comply with health, safety, and environmental regulations surveilled by authorities...

We are living in a material world

Materials and substances are the fundamental building blocks required to produce bigger components, then large assemblies, and finally complete...

Cobalt unmasked – Is cobalt really a sustainable option?

In recent years, the demand for cobalt has steadily increased with the development of the electric vehicle market and the digitalized industry. But...

ECHA Updates SVHC Candidate List: 4 New Substances

On June 25, ECHA added four new candidates to the list of substances of very high concern. iPoint’s systems reacted immediately to the new entries...

Compliance Reporting for Electronics – new challenges driven by the Automotive industry and the EU SCIP database

Chemical compliance reporting for electronics or products with electronics in them involves providing detailed substance and materials information...

The new EU Regulation of Medical Devices – MDR

Is your company and your supply chain ready to tackle the new EU MDR requirements? Get prepared for the 7 major changes in Medical Device Regulation.

How The Automotive Sector Can Do MedTech

Due to COVID-19, protective masks and respiratory equipment are in high demand. iPoint Compliance can support the automotive sector in achieving...

Homeland Security and Your Supply Chain

The US Dept. of Homeland Security is committed to enforcing anti-human trafficking and forced labor laws. What does their new ‘Strategy’ document...

Are menstrual cups a “green lie”?

An LCA comparing menstrual cups and tampons shows that products advertised as particularly sustainable are not always the truly sustainable...

Can Digitalization help to save costs related to Sustainability & Compliance?

The Sustainability and Compliance Trends Survey 2019 is one of the largest global surveys on Compliance and Sustainability in various industries. The...

The Cost of Compliance & Sustainability – How companies’ spending evolved in 2019

The Sustainability and Compliance Trends Survey 2019 is one of the largest global surveys on Compliance and Sustainability in various industries....

How sustainable is a service or a product? Digitalization, IoT and Big Data are providing new possibilities for research

How sustainable is a service or a product? This question is becoming more and more important in purchasing decisions and is therefore occupying more...

The Global Medical Device Industry – a spotlight on India and China

Japan has one of the highest geriatric populations in the world and because of that they have a strong demand for medical devices. They’re one of the...

Medical Device Industry – Trends in 2020

Several global companies from the Medical Device industry like Becton Dickinson, Roche, Emerson or Zimmer Biomet are longterm customers of iPoint and...

Going Beyond IMDS with iPoint Approval

The race to introduce a product to the market is a fierce one; where companies are constantly trying to shorten the product cycle. One of the items...

How to provide Life Cycle Information for non-LCA experts

Thanks to automatization and data interfacing, LCA is becoming accessible to any role in an organization. Also non-LCA experts can use life cycle...

Enterprise Blockchain 2028

Gartner: Corporate Blockchain Won’t Take Off for Another Decade Hype comes with a placebo effect, and this effect is real. It makes people do...

How Toyota North America ensures the compliance of its products

When Toyota North America decided for iPoint Compliance as the leading solution to manage all their IMDS activities inhouse it took only nine months...

How to collect information from your supply chain – Where an industry standard does not exist!

When it comes to collecting information from your supply chain, having certain industry standards, such as the Conflict Minerals Reporting Template...

Why we built the iPoint Suite

In iPoint’s software solutions, the CARE principle forms the foundation. All our software solutions collect, analyze, report and help companies to...

Why we CARE – and YOU CARE ALREADY

Since 2001 customers, ranging from SMEs to Fortune 500 companies, have been using our software solutions to CARE ….

How to answer the three fundamental questions and evolve your business

It’s obvious that companies need transparency for good decision-making and any management of compliance, risk, governance, or sustainability topics.

How digitalization and knowledge creates transparency for businesses

We believe in continuous progression with technology. This can be accomplished by making complexity manageable with the digitalization of Life Cycles...

Why increasing market dynamics lead to complexity

Today’s companies face high pressure by investors to improve revenue, by regulations to abide by the new rules and by competitors to be ever...

Carbon Footprint of Electric Cars: Is E-Mobility Truly Sustainable?

Electric cars and e-mobility are hotly debated issue right now, both in scientific circles and in the media. Some herald it as enabling mobility with...

Identify risks and achieve anti-human trafficking compliance with eLRT Lite

On Thursday, August 8th, eLRT Lite, a simplified version of the electronic Labour Rights Template, was launched. Pia Ostroske (P.O.) interviewed...

Do LCAs reveal green lies?

As life cycle experts know, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a useful tool to either confirm or disprove a product’s assumed environmental advantage....

Cobalt Reporting via the iPoint SustainHub

Cobalt is the key element used in batteries of mobile phones, laptops, and electric vehicles and hence the demand for cobalt has been increasing year...

4 new substances added to the Candidate List of substances of very high concern (SVHC) and important changes in the near future

On July 16, 2019, the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) has published 4 new candidate substances. This candidate list that contains the so called SVHC...

How to increase Business Transparency by assessing compliance data – exactly where its needed

Companies currently using SAP® have a vast amount of existing data in their system that can be analyzed for compliance purposes, however, current...

How to use Life Cycle Information to set AND reach your Sustainability Goals

Volvo Cars and iPoint systems act jointly in improving availability of and accessibility to life cycle information flows. Better quality of results,...

How to build a sustainable car?

What are the challenges for the implementation of Sustainable Product Development in the automotive industry?

How to successfully market your products worldwide – faster

To speed up the development of new products companies need to evaluate data on products, materials and substances thoroughly and transforms them into...

LCA of lithium-ion batteries – there’s more to it than you think

With the use of electric vehicles on the rise, there’s a lot of buzz about how environmentally friendly they are. While operational impacts are low...

Discrepancy of RoHS and REACH – Compliance Changes 2019

ROHS Directive starts to restrict the Phthalates listed in ROHS Annex II. But with regard to REACH Annex XIV sunset date (21/02/2015) there is a...

German Battery Forum 2019: a round-up of congress highlights

Andreas Genest from ifu Hamburg, Member of iPoint Group, attended the BatterieForum Deutschland 2019 (German Battery Forum) conference, which took...

iPoint’s systems always stay up to date with new SVHC entries

On January 15, 2019, the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) has published 6 new entries to the candidate list of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC)....

How to bring transparency into the supply chain

More and more people are consuming more consciously and want to know where a product they buy comes from and under what conditions it is...

Will there be a UK REACH?

What will be the challenges Brexit will have to your business on the products and services that you supply? Will there be a UK REACH for the...

The Sustainability & Compliance Trends Survey 2019

The overwhelming response on our Sustainability & Compliance Trends Survey 2018 encouraged us to continue our research to keep our fingers on the...

Customized Transparency with iPCA Web

The new web-client of the iPoint Compliance Agent, iPCA Web, enables companies to advance transparency in their supply chain and provide their...

Sustainability and Compliance Trends – What Kept Companies Busy in 2018?

At the beginning of 2018, iPoint started to conduct a survey on Sustainability and Compliance Trends 2018 – and the response was overwhelming: More...

A Compliance Survey Tool that Grows with Your Supply Chain

In November 2018, iPoint launched a new compliance survey app for the SustainHub platform as a perfect addition to the iPoint Compliance and iPoint...

Chocolate efficiently produced: Energy management at Ritter Sport

Ritter Sport, the well-known German producer of chocolate bars in the distinctive, square package, offers a wide range of confections, each wrapped...

SustainHub Roadmap 2019

Free Webinar: Innovative insights and an exclusive outlook on the SustainHub Join Sebastian Dehlinger, Product Manager of SustainHub, on Dec. 5th in...

France’s Due Diligence Law – Loi sur le devoir de vigilance

On April 24, 2013, more than 1,000 people in Bangladesh lost their lives when the textiles factory they worked at collapsed. At that time, a number...

Sankey Skyscraping – Visualizing the huge energy demand in cement production

Blockchain for Circular Supply Chain

Blockchain technology enables us to digitize and streamline the supply chain workflows to improve efficiency, reduce costs and improve management of...

Are you ready for Brexit? Check your Brexit-Readiness

On March 29th 2017, the United Kingdom notified the European Council of its intention to withdraw from the European Union, thereby triggering a...

Together, we bring fw: transparency

At iPoint, we bring fw: transparency and places it at the forefront of everything that we do.

New standard ISO 50001 for energy management places increased demands on companies

Recertification of an energy management system according to ISO 50001 has become more demanding – or why a requirement in the accreditation standard...

Lids against Polio

Poliomyelitis, more commonly referred to as polio, is an illness that has been almost completely eradicated with there being only a few known cases...

Life Cycle Impact Assessment – the Most Widely Used LCIA Methods

Whenever someone starts his or her first LCA study, one of the questions to be answered is, which of the available LCIA methods should be used? There...

Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery – how to mitigate financial and reputational risk

According the latest Global Slavery Index (GSI), released in July 2018, it can be estimated that were 40.3 million victims of modern slavery and...

The new California Proposition 65 Warning Regulations

The California Proposition 65 is a California Law that came into effect in 1986.

Facing the regulatory challenges of the aftermarket

OEMs and their suppliers are facing multiple regulatory challenges when it comes to the so called aftermarket.

“Let’s stop re-inventing the wheel with everybody starting from the scratch when creating a material and energy flow model!”

Do you still rerecord, what you thought and expected when you started with your first flow model of a real world production system? I remember that...