Talk:Life-cycle cost analysis

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Combine?

Suggest we might combine the article on whole-life cost, and life-cycle cost analysis. Total cost of ownership is another common synonym. They all seem to be in use in slightly different industries, but the concept is effectively the same.

Infrastructure and asset management usually calls it "whole-life cost" IT seems to more commonly refer to Total cost of ownership or TCO.

What do others think? OceanKiwi (talk) 14:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Have found discussions on the lifecycle assessment which suggest that the term LCCAnalysis is synonymous with Lifecycle Assessment, and may partially be a subset of that article. I have covered the other relevant parts in whole-life cost, so suggest this requires a disambiguation page only.

I'll make the change and if anyone disagrees feel free to revert. OceanKiwi (talk) 16:22, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Life cycle cost analysis (LCCA)" and "life cycle assessment (LCA)" are not the same. The similarities in the names result in people often confusing them for being the same thing. LCA looks at the environmental impacts of a product or process from cradle to grave; this includes impacts from material extraction, processing, production, transportation, use, reuse, disposal, etc. LCCA looks at the economics only of acquiring, owning, and disposing a product or process; it is not a cradle to grave analysis. There is a significant difference in the focus, and the breadth of the studies. Grouping these two methodologies together only serves to support this confusion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.174.37.50 (talk) 17:44, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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life-cycle cost analysis should redirect here. 70.250.198.35 (talk) 19:17, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]