Fallback data in Sustainability analysis

For in-house materials, your Granta data administrator may have specified a 'fallback' link to a generic material. This enables data from the generic material to be used in Sustainability analysis to fill any gaps in the data for the in-house material.

To check if a fallback record has been specified for an in-house material, view its datasheet in BoM Analyzer, MI Explore, or MI Viewer. Fallback is enabled for Sustainability analysis if both of the following are true:
  • The in-house material has a Fallback link to MaterialUniverse link to a generic material in Material Universe - this is the fallback record.
  • The Allow fallback to generic sustainability data attribute is set to 'Yes'.
When you run the Sustainability analysis or report, if any data required by the analysis is missing from the in-house record, data from the fallback record can be used instead. This includes the following types of data:
  • Environmental data values (such as Embodied Energy and Climate Change indicator values, and end-of-life attributes such as Recycle, Functional Recycle, and Downcycle)
  • Material properties such as Density
  • Additional material properties required to calculate material-specific indicator values for processing (see Indicator calculations for processes applied to materials).
Note: For Sustainability analysis, data from the fallback record is used only as required, on an attribute-by-attribute basis, to fill any gaps in the in-house material data. Any data that does exist for the in-house material is used in preference to the fallback data.