Makersite Data Foundation
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Make the best possible design and purchase decisions.
Access the largest product and supply chain database with 36,000+ industrial processes, 600,000+ environmental impacts, and 100,000+ materials, and their physical properties, all in one system
Over 30% of global supply chain data at your fingertips
Makersite’s Data Foundation is the solution to the challenges manufacturers face when sourcing components and complying with sustainability and regulatory commitments. Our product knowledge graph, the largest in the world, brings together data from over 140 sources, providing access to the largest product and supply chain database. Our databases cover a wide range of materials and substances, allowing you to model products from various sectors, including automotive, electronics, packaging, and food. We monitor 40+ regulations and include major LCA databases, including Ecoinvent. With information on 36,000+ industrial processes, 600,000+ environmental impacts, and 100,000+ materials and properties in one system, Makersite makes it easy for you to find exactly what you need for your sourcing and purchasing decisions.
Some of our data sources
ecoinvent
The ecoinvent database provides well-documented process data for thousands of products, helping you make truly informed choices about their environmental impact.
Carbon Minds
Carbon Minds is a life cycle data provider and consultancy focused on environmental sustainability for chemicals and plastics. The company offers data, consulting and training so clients can set or reach environmental targets. For companies at all stages in the chemicals and plastics value chain, Carbon Minds offers its science-backed and third-party certified data, as well as its considerable expertise in the chemicals industry, to ensure an evidence-based and cost-effective sustainability transition.
AGRIBALYZE
High-quality data for products, at the farm gate. Implement ecodesign strategies for food products with hundreds of agricultural products and processes, in unit process format.
CPM
The CPM LCA Database is developed within the Swedish Life Cycle Center and is a result of the continuous work to establish transparent and quality reviewed LCA data.
BioEnergieDat
Processes for bioenergy supply chains, with German background, developed in the context of the German BioEnergieDat research project, with support from the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, 2010-2012.
Probas
ProBas is a German dataset library originally provided by the German Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt). It includes unit as well as aggregated processes, for Energy, Materials & Products, Transportation services and Waste. ProBas+ database provides well-documented process data for thousands of products, helping you make truly informed choices about their environmental impact.
RoHS substances (EU)
The Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive restricts the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment in the European Union.
Metal Exchange
The London Metal Exchange is the world centre for industrial metals trading.
EPRTR
The European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) is the Europe-wide register that provides easily accessible key environmental data from industrial facilities in European Union Member States and in Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Serbia and Switzerland.
NEEDS
Database created by the NEEDS (New Energy Externalities Developments for Sustainability) project: Life cycle inventories of future electricity supply in Europe. It contains industrial LCI data on future transport services, electricity and material supply.
USDA
LCA database containing agricultural data sets with a US background, plus crosswalks to upstream Ecoinvent v.2.2 data sets, provided by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The version available is “USDA crop data v.1.1”.
Octopart
Octopart is a search engine for electronic components and industrial products.
LC-Inventories
Datasets made available free of charge by different authors. All LCI data are elaborated according to the ecoinvent v2.2 guidelines.
The data have been developed in different publicly or privately funded projects.
Reach substances (EU)
REACH is a European Union regulation concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation & restriction of Chemicals.
Gestis DNEL
GESTIS is the Information system on hazardous substances of the German Social Accident Insurance.
Pubchem – basic properties
PubChem is an open chemistry database at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Agri-footprint
Agri-footprint is a high-quality life cycle inventory (LCI) database for the agriculture and food sector. It covers data on agricultural products: feed, food, and biomass.
WIAM – metal properties
IMA Materialforschung und Anwendungstechnik GmbH Dresden (IMA Dresden) develop and perform customized testing of all types of materials and components. More than 6,000 materials and their modifications are available and traceable, using parameters and information. The materials are steel, cast steel, cast iron, nonferrous metals such as castings and kneading options, as well as plastics.
GreenDelta
Data.. for fact-based insights into sustainability and life cycles.
FAQs
What is the Makersite data foundation?
Makersite’s data foundation is the core dataset that underpins its Product Lifecycle Intelligence (PLI) platform. It combines over 150 material, process, and supplier data sources – ranging from public to proprietary – to create accurate digital product and supply chain models.
Why is the Makersite platform important for manufacturing companies
Makersite solves the major challenge of fragmented data silos within manufacturing systems. By unifying and enriching this data, companies gain deep-tier visibility, automated analytics, and insights across the full product lifecycle.
Who benefits most from data foundation in the Makersite platform?
From engineers, procurement teams, sustainability leads, product compliance and risk specialists to decision makers – all benefit. They can access harmonized data that accelerates ecodesign, improves supplier decisions, speeds up report generation, and supports strategic actions to make better products, faster.
What kind of data is included in the Makersite platform?
Makersite monitors 40+ regulations and includes major LCA databases e.g. Ecoinvent Carbon Minds, AGRIBALYZE, BioEnergieDat, Probas, CPM, NEEDS, USDA, LC-Inventories or Agri.footprint. With information on 36,000+ industrial processes, 600,000+ environmental impacts, and 100,000+ materials and properties in one system, it allows you to model products from various sectors, including automotive, electronics, packaging, and food and at the same time automate product compliance checks against REACH, RoHS & more to ensure market access and streamline unlimited reporting.
How does the Makersite platform use AI and ML to create digital twins?
Using Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and knowledge-graph algorithms, Makersite cleanses and links your internal Computer Aided Design (CAD), Enterprice Ressource Planning (ERP) and Bill of Material (BOM) data with the data foundation. This creates detailed digital twin models that reflect full lifecycle data and enable real-time analyses and optimizations.
What capabilities does it unlock?
You can automate Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPD), generate Scope3 emissions and Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) reports, perform should-cost analyses, run ecodesign scenarios, monitor product compliance and risk – all through interactive dashboards and decision-support apps.
Can it integrate with our existing systems?
Yes – the data foundation connects via Application Programming Interfaces (API) to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Data Management (PDM), Quality Management System (QMS), Computer Aided Design (CAD) and other systems. Makersite supports default importers and offers cloud, dedicated, or on-prem hosting for flexibility.
How is data quality and accuracy ensured?
The Data Foundation is continuously updated with curated and verified information from over 150 data sources, including standards bodies, regulatory agencies, and specialized data providers. These datasets are ISO-compliant (ISO 14025, ISO 14040, IS0 14044, ISO 14067, ISO 21930) and peer-reviewed, helping ensure robust, audit-ready results.