{"id":495,"date":"2020-09-15T10:28:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T08:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alicia-cme.eu\/about\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T11:39:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T09:39:57","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alicia-cme.eu\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Background<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creating a longer life-cycle for manufacturing systems<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Reusing production assets to create a viable pathway towards \u201cclosing the loop\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Many current production assets, such as industrial robots, conveyor belts, and other stand-alone assets, do not reach their maximal lifetime and become prematurely obsolescent. Experience from the automotive industry suggests that 60 % to 70 % of production resources are prematurely taken out of operation, scrapped, or, at best, sold for spare parts. This state-of-play constitutes a severe wastage of resources and goes against attempts by the EU to move away from the \u201ctake-make-consume-throw away\u201d model and \u201coptimize resource yields by circulating products, components, and materials in use at the highest utility at all times [\u2026]\u201d, as stipulated by the EU\u2019s 2016 New Circular Economy Package and the 2020 Circular Economy Action Plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: European Parliamentary Research Service \u2013 Closing the loop \u2013 new circular economy package (2016)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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ALICIA: Methology of the project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The goals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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70-80%<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

reduction of material and energy requirements for new assembly systems<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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100%<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

reuse rate of used assembly systems<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The main objectives contributing to ALICIA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Framework<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The first goal is to build a novel standardized framework for capturing factory-owner and factory staff requirements related to production lines to pave the way for seamless data\/business process exchange between various stakeholders in the value chain (suppliers of second-hand assets, machine builders, system integrators, providers of remanufacturing\/recycling services).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Digital Tools<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The second goal is to develop a set of integrated digital tools (AI-matchmaking engine, Digital Shadow and Twin, and Plug & Produce middleware) to provide factory owners, their engineers, and technicians with a one-stop-shop service for planning, constructing, ramping up, and sustainably running second-hand production lines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Integration and Demonstration<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The final goal is to integrate all ALICIA digital tools developed into a small-scale system and test it in a controlled environment (\u201csmall scale CME\u201d) by connecting it to the existing Market 4.0 online marketplace and a second-hand production resource database and running tests on real data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


See the flyer for more information about the project:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Library<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Interested in learning more or participating in the project? Contact us!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Contact us<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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