Gabi Manual 1
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GaBi Manual 1 1 Table of Contents 1. Table of Contents 1-12 2. Terms of Agreement 13 3. Disclaimer 14 4. The GaBi Software Family 15-16 5. Getting Started 17 5.1. Scope of Delivery 17 5.2. Technical Requirements 17 5.3. Installation 17-18 5.3.1. GaBi Software Installation 18-24 5.3.2. License activation 24-30 5.3.3. How to Uninstall GaBi 30 5.3.4. Installing GaBi database updates and service packs 30-31 5.4. Automatic Updates 31-32 5.5. System Start and Log-on 32-33 5.5.1. Creating and restoring gcd files 33-34 5.5.2. Log-in, Name, Password, Project 34-35 5.5.3. Activating, Connecting or Disconnecting a Database 35-36 6. Introduction to GaBi 37 6.1. Short description of selected GaBi features 37-40 6.1.1. 7. ILCD Import & Export 37-40 6.1.2. 8. EPD Export 37-40 6.1.3. 9. Plan to process via grouping 37-40 6.1.4. 10 Updates dashboard templates 37-40 6.1.5. 11. Version history 37-40 6.1.6. 12. Visualization of balance sheets and process windows 37-40 6.2. Basic principles of GaBi 40-42 6.3. Modeling and Analyzing Systems with GaBi 42 6.3.1. Goal and Scope Definition 42-43 6.3.2. Life Cycle Inventory 43 6.3.2.1. Flows 43-44 ©2012 PE INTERNATIONAL AG. All Rights Reserved. 2 GaBi Manual 6.3.2.2. Processes 44 6.3.2.3. Allocations 44 6.3.2.4. Plans 44 6.3.2.5. Balances 44 6.3.3. Life Cycle Impact Assessment 44-45 6.3.4. Life Cycle Interpretation 45 7. Working with GaBi 46 7.1. Working with Projects 46 7.1.1. Creating a New Project 46-47 7.1.2. Project Properties 47 7.1.3. Activating a Project 47 7.1.4. Manual Assignment of Objects to the Project 47-48 7.2. Modeling a Product 48 7.2.1. Modeling Systems Using Plans and Processes 48-53 7.2.2. Constructing a Plan 53-54 7.2.3. Plan Nesting 54-55 7.2.4. Creating New Processes 55-56 7.2.5. Adding Flows to a Process 56 7.2.5.1. Inserting Flows Using the Function "Auto Complete" 56-57 7.2.5.2. Valuable Flows, Waste Materials and Elementary Flows 57-58 7.2.5.3. Inserting with the GaBi Object Search 58 7.2.5.4. Inserting with Drag-and-Drop 58-59 7.2.6. Creating New Flows 59-61 7.2.7. Adapting Process Chains and Broken Flows 61 7.3. Further Plan Features 61 7.3.1. Show Tracked Inputs/Outputs 61-62 7.3.2. Show Flow Names/Quantities 62 7.3.3. Grouping of Processes 62 7.3.4. Local Process Names/Process Images 63 7.4. Balances 63-67 7.4.1. Charts in the Dashboards 67-70 7.4.2. Creating Balances 70 ©2012 PE INTERNATIONAL AG. All Rights Reserved. GaBi Manual 3 7.4.2.1. Assess a Balance 70-71 7.4.2.2. Calculate a Balance 71 7.4.2.3. Balance Views 71-72 7.4.2.4. Single Table Balance 73-74 7.4.2.5. Single Table Balance Example 74-76 7.4.2.6. The GaBi Balance Navigator 76 7.4.2.7. Balance Diagrams 76-77 7.4.2.8. In-Out Aggregation in the classic balance display 77-78 7.4.2.9. Balance Interpretation 78 7.4.2.9.1. General Information about Balance Interpretation 78 7.4.2.9.2. Assessment of the Data Quality of Balances 78-79 7.4.2.10. Analysis of the Underlying Process Chain 79 7.4.2.11. Weak Point Analysis in Balances 79-80 7.4.2.12. Defining Balance Views 81 7.4.2.13. Viewing the Balance by Group 81-82 7.4.2.14. Filtering the Grouped Balance 82-83 7.4.2.15. Export to Microsoft EXCEL® 83 7.4.3. GaBi i-report 83 7.4.3.1. Introduction to GaBi i-report 83-84 7.4.3.2. Linking parameters to a GaBi i-report 84-87 7.4.3.3. Editor area 87 7.4.3.3.1. Header and footer 87-88 7.4.3.3.2. Text editor tools 88 7.4.3.3.3. GaBi report properties 88 7.4.3.3.3.1. Page properties 88-89 7.4.3.3.3.2. Fonts 89-90 7.4.3.3.3.3. Topics 90-91 7.4.3.3.3.4. Renaming 91-92 7.4.3.3.3.5. Variables 92-93 7.4.3.3.3.6. Context overview 93-94 7.4.3.3.4. Structure elements 94 7.4.3.3.5. Page breaks 94 ©2012 PE INTERNATIONAL AG. All Rights Reserved. 4 GaBi Manual 7.4.3.3.6. Tables 94-97 7.4.3.3.7. Charts 97-99 7.4.3.3.8. GaBi process plans 99 7.4.3.3.9. Images 99-100 7.4.3.3.10. Object trees 100-101 7.4.3.3.11. Hyperlinks 101 7.4.3.3.12. Input fields 101 7.4.3.3.13. Text variables 102-103 7.4.3.4. Runtime mode 103-104 7.4.3.5. Navigation 104 7.4.3.6. Report templates 104-105 7.5. Parameter Use in GaBi 105 7.5.1. General Information about Parameters 105-106 7.5.2. Process Parameters 106-107 7.5.3. Plan Parameters 107-108 7.5.4. Global Parameters 108-109 7.5.5. Parameter Explorer 109-110 7.6. GaBi Analyst 110 7.6.1. Scenario Analysis 110-112 7.6.2. Parameter Variation 112-113 7.6.3. Sensitivity Analysis 113-115 7.6.4. Monte Carlo Analysis 115-116 7.6.5. Analyst Batch Mode 116-117 7.7. Allocation 117 7.7.1. Standard Allocation 117-118 7.7.2. Extended Allocation 118-119 7.7.3. Mixed Standard Allocation 119-120 7.7.4. Manual Allocation 120-121 7.8. Quantities 121 7.8.1. General Information about Quantities 121 7.8.2. Creating a Quantity 121-123 7.9. Units 123 ©2012 PE INTERNATIONAL AG. All Rights Reserved. GaBi Manual 5 7.9.1. General Information about Units 123 7.9.2. Creating or Changing a Unit 123-124 7.10. Creating and Managing Users 124 7.10.1. General Information about Creating and Managing Users 124 7.10.2. Creating or Changing a User 124-125 7.10.3. Quality assurance statuses 125-126 7.11. Creating and Linking Contacts 126-127 7.12. Creating and Linking References, Citations 127-128 7.13. Data Quality Indicators (DQIs) 128-129 7.14. Interpretation 129 7.14.1. General Information about Weighting and Normalization 129 7.14.2. Creating or Changing Weighting Keys and Normalizations 129-130 7.15. Database Management 130 7.15.1. Creating a New Database 130-131 7.15.2. Exchanging Data between Databases 131 7.15.2.1. Transferring single GaBi objects to a different database 131-132 7.15.2.2. Transferring multiple objects to a different database 132-133 7.15.3. Replacing Objects 133-134 7.15.4. Comparing Objects 134-135 7.15.5. Automatically Saving Databases 135 7.15.6. Compressing Databases 135 7.15.7. Modifying Database Objects 135-136 7.16. Multilingual Use of GaBi 136 7.16.1. Switching User Interface Language 136 7.16.2. Switching Database Language 136-137 7.17. Other GaBi Features 137 7.17.1. Exchanging Data with Other Applications 137 7.17.1.1. GBX Export/Import- Drag-and-drop of Objects 137 7.17.1.1.1. GBX Export 137 7.17.1.1.2. GBX Import 137-138 7.17.1.1.3. Detailed description of the automatic update of objects 138-139 7.17.1.2. ILCD data exchange 139-140 ©2012 PE INTERNATIONAL AG. All Rights Reserved. 6 GaBi Manual 7.17.1.2.1. ILCD Import 140-141 7.17.1.2.2. ILCD Export 141 7.17.1.3. EcoSpold Data Exchange 141-142 7.17.1.3.1. EcoSpold Import 142-143 7.17.1.3.2. EcoSpold Export 143-144 7.17.1.4. Importing Processes from Excel 144-145 7.17.1.5. Exporting Processes to Excel 145 7.17.2. GaBi Object Search 145-146 7.17.3. Documentation 146-148 7.17.4. GaBi Online Help 148 7.17.5. Configuring the View of GaBi Windows 148 7.18. Life Cycle Working Environment 148-149 7.18.1. Utilizing the LCWE Functionality in GaBi 149 7.18.1.1. LCWE Modeling on Process Level 149-150 7.18.1.2. LCWE Balance Evaluation 150-151 7.18.2. Information on Default Methodology Developed at LBP 151 7.18.2.1. Selection of Socio-economic Goals and Indicators 151-152 7.18.2.2. Concept and Utilization of Socio-economic Flows 152-154 7.18.3. Description of the Socio-economic Flows Developed at the LBP 154-155 7.18.4. Differentiation between INTERNAL and EXTERNAL 155-156 7.19. GaBi Process Recording Tool 156-158 7.20. GaBi History 158-159 7.20.1. GaBi History of entire databases and folders 159 7.20.2. GaBi History of objects 159 7.20.3. Exceptions for the GaBi History for GaBi Server and Service Pack 159 Installations 8.