Project description
A platform for monitoring the production lifecycle
Europe’s manufacturers require new methods that permit a comprehensive, cost-affordable and integrated application of circular economy principles for the digital upgrade of the entire production system. The EU-funded LEVEL-UP project will create an ascendable platform to deal with the entire lifecycle of the production process for the diagnosis and forecasting of the operation of physical assets and monitoring the restoration and reparation procedures. LEVEL-UP will include new hardware and software applications connected with IoT and data platforms. It will have a big impact on the European manufacturing sector, increasing material and resource efficiency, extending equipment lifetime and securing a return on investment. LEVEL-UP will be demonstrated in seven demo sites from different sectors.
Objective
Europe is still lacking an efficient systemic multi-level approach that enables a recursive, cost-effective, holistic and integrated application of circular principles to the digital uplifting of factory 4.0 capital investments; addressing issues at product, process, system as well as the entire value-chain levels, integrating best practices from emerging enabling digital technologies and avoid a two speed digital transformation across industries in different sectors. LEVEL-UP will offer a scalable platform covering the overall lifecycle, ranging from the digital twins setup, modernisation actions to diagnose and predict the operation of physical assets, to the refurbishment and remanufacturing activities towards end of life. In-situ repair technologies and the redesign for new upgraded components will be facilitated through virtual simulations for increased performance and lifetime. LEVEL-UP will therefore comprise new hardware and software components interfaced with the current facilities through IoT and data-management platforms, while being orchestrated through eight (8) scalable strategies at component, work-station and shopfloor level. The actions for modernising, upgrading, refurbishing, remanufacturing, and recycling will be structured and formalised into ten (10) special Protocols, linked with an Industrial Digital Thread weaving a seamless digital integration with all actors in the value chain for improved future iterations. LEVEL-UP will be demonstrated in 7 demo sites from different sectors. The impact of LEVEL-UP to the European manufacturing industry, but also the society itself, can be sum-marised in the following (with a horizon of 4 years after project ends): (i) increase of the material and re-source efficiency by 11.5%, (ii) increased reliability by 16% of the equipment in an extended lifetime by 20%, (iii) over 50% increase of the Return on Investment (ROI), (iv) about 810 new jobs created and (v) over 80M EUR ROI for the consortium.
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551 02 THESSALONIKI
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UB8 3PH Uxbridge
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341 00 Chalkis
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33100 Tampere
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20821 Meda (Mb)
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80686 Munchen
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48008 Bilbao
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28359 Bremen
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8002 Zurich
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44227 Dortmund
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47900 Rimini
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53048 Sinalunga
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47921 RIMINI
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5657 BX Eindhoven
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4200-465 Porto
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20500 Arrasate Mondragon
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20500 Arrasate Gipuzkoa
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01139 ZUYA ALAVA
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20870 Elgoibar
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80333 Munchen
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601 90 Brno Stred
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1290 Versoix
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PO6 3TH Portsmouth Hampshire
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EC4A 4AB London
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76824 Hulin
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20870 Elgoibar
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N1 7GU London
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5667 KV Geldrop
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60549 FRANKFURT AM MAIN
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23900 Lecco Lc
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01100 Bellignat
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24060 Bolgare Bg
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3210 Slovenske Konjice
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31192 Mutilva Alta
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31192 Mutilva Alta
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31192 Mutilva Alta
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25128 Brescia
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25128 Brescia
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10043 Orbassano
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1020 Wien
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341 00 HALKIDA
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