Periodic Reporting for period 3 - KYKLOS 4.0 (An Advanced Circular and Agile Manufacturing Ecosystem based on rapid reconfigurable manufacturing process and individualized consumer preferences)
Período documentado: 2022-07-01 hasta 2023-12-31
But even more important in a circular manufacturing is providing the adequate product lifecycle management support. KYKLOS 4.0 provides this management support while providing not only the capability for product lifecycle management but what is more important in the Circualr manufacturing process that is basically the Life Cycle Assessment service which enables an organisation to know through the manufacturing plant what is the actual foot print by monitoring the energy/water consumption as well as being able to identify based on the materials inflow the actual environmental foot print. At the same time KYKLOS 4.0 provide a blockchain based refurbishment services that enables and organisation to trace in a truthful manner the refurbishment undergone by a part, product or material, that an organisation may be considering using in their production instead of purchasing new parts/Products/materials reducing in this manner the overall footprint of the Manufacturing process.
One of the key challenges faced by the manufacturing industry when moving towards a circular manufacturing strategy is determining what KPIs or indicators have to be measured with respect to each specific manufacturing process. KYKLOS 4.0 has developed a Circular Manufacturing Approach that just provides the means for an organisation to know what needs to be measure based on the CM strategy the organisation wants to follow. The DSS in KYKLOS 4.0 has implemented this Circularity Approach a enables an organisation to know based on the production process information whether the CM strategy goals are being meet or a deviating and also provides potential insights on what the organisation needs to look into so as to get back in trace.
A key challenge in the KYKLOS 4.0 project as well as in the circular manufacturing is the capability of measuring the circularity and green impact of the manufacturing process. In the context of KYKLOS 4.0 we have defined the KYKLOS 4.0 Circularity Approach which is a methodology as well as a list of circularity indicators that enable any organization to measure and monitor their circularity aligned to their manufacturing process. This methodology can be used by anyone to actual monitor their processes or implement supporting tools for this. In the context of the project we have implemented a software solution in the Decision Support System developed in the project.
Within the project there are two means of exploitation, the individual exploitation of the different components developed in the project, but what is most important is that there have already been agreements in the joint exploitation of the following services: Personalized “Product Design and Refurbishment”, “Advanced Support for Production” and “Additive Manufacturing Design and Automation”. At the same time all the results have been included in the IoTCatalogue (https://www.iot-catalogue.com/projects/61eecf88120630002afdfef6(se abrirá en una nueva ventana)).
The dissemination of the project results is as follows 7 newsletters were released, 45 project publications, 26 peer-reviewed publications, including 7 articles in journals, 15 publications in conference proceedings, and 4 dissertations. 19 non-peer reviewed publications and 187 blog entries, press releases, partners’ posts, flyers quickly summarizes the dissemination efforts of the project results. Another mean of dissemination of the project was the IoT Catalogue in which the use cases, usage of the KYKLOS 4.0 solutions and out comes are presented.
KYKLOS 4.0 participated in 68 relevant events. Demonstration and training sessions based on KYKLOS 4.0 pilots and solutions were organized during KYKLOS 4.0 validation phase #1 and #2, and during Open Call #2 demo/training sessions to address integration aspects.
As part of our clustering efforts, clustering with the following relevant projects and global initiatives:DMP Cluster, EFFRA, BDVA, SBS, OpenDEI, DFA, AI, Data and Robotics Partnership, DSBA, AI on Demand Platform, OpenAIRE, ETSI, European Green Digital Coalition.
KYKLOS 4.0 partners delivered 23 comprehensive videos (non-confidential) aiming at explaining the benefits for sustainable and circular manufacturing, including live demo showing the main capabilities of the components for sustainable and circular manufacturing.