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Digitally-enhanced multi-level solution for smart human-centric remanufacturing

Project description

Creating a human-centric future for remanufacturing

The European remanufacturing industry is a crucial component of the transition to a sustainable Europe. It contributes significantly to sustainability by saving materials, energy, and resources, while also advancing socio-economic goals through job creation, worker training, and technological innovation. However, mismanagement of this sector could severely impact its efficiency and the well-being of its workers. The EU-funded rEUman project aims to develop and demonstrate an innovative, human-centric approach that focuses on both factory and value-chain levels. This approach seeks to enhance competitiveness, worker inclusion, and overall quality of life.

Objective

The European remanufacturing industry is crucial for the sustainable transition of Europe, thanks to the
savings in energy, materials and functionality that is guaranteed by the process. In fact, the socio-
economic benefits of remanufacturing, in terms of number of workers, skills development and
technological uptake, are as impactful as the environmental benefits. However, to future-proof the
European remanufacturing industry and increase its competitiveness, the obstacles facing the human
worker need to be addressed as a matter of strategic urgency. Currently, established remanufacturing
sectors recognized the barriers in the limited automation, poor human inclusion, lack of traceability and
restricted use of digitalization. Hence, rEUman aims at developing and demonstrating a novel paradigm
of human-centric remanufacturing approach for the European industry; acting at factory and value-chain
levels. At factory level, the main industrial need is to guarantee high regeneration rates of the
remanufactured products and to achieve traceability of the remanufacturing process-chain. While at
value-chain level, the main industrial need is to guarantee stability in terms of volume and quality of the
post-use products. rEUman shall demonstrate the new remanufacturing paradigm, which is intrinsically
human-safe, target-driven in regeneration and certification, flexible while facing variability in post-use
parts, robust and replicable to new circular business cases. To that end, rEUman addresses the call topic
by (i) developing cutting edge remanufacturing approaches (factory level) and integrating them into the
value-chain , (ii) demonstrating functional retention in three sectors (Automotive, Home appliances and
Optoelectronics), (iii) introducing traceability in remanufacturing by implementing the first
remanufacturing-centred DPP, (iv) considering operation and economic viability by showcasing complete
business cases coupled with designed training material.

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Coordinator

POLITECNICO DI MILANO
Net EU contribution

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€ 934 375,00
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PIAZZA LEONARDO DA VINCI 32
20133 Milano
Italy

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Region
Nord-Ovest Lombardia Milano
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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€ 934 375,00

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