The consortium

ABM-Mess Ser­vice GmbH con­tributes to the CliCE-DiPP project as fol­lows: With its exper­tise in smart meter­ing and intel­li­gent mea­sur­ing sys­tems, the com­pa­ny pro­motes the col­lec­tion of con­sump­tion data from prod­ucts (water meters) through­out their entire life cycle. This not only increas­es trans­paren­cy regard­ing the poten­tial for ener­gy and resource sav­ings, but also enables a bet­ter assess­ment of cir­cu­lar strate­gies in the first life cycle of water meters. This exper­tise also con­tributes to the effi­cient man­age­ment of mate­r­i­al (return) flows with­in val­ue chains. In addi­tion to CO2 , this also saves oth­er resources for the pro­cess­ing of mechan­i­cal and elec­tri­cal com­po­nents and the asso­ci­at­ed logis­tics. Fur­ther­more, this estab­lish­es a con­cept for a sus­tain­able cir­cu­lar econ­o­my for con­sump­tion mea­sure­ment sys­tems with their end cus­tomers and sup­pli­ers. Lorenz GmbH & Co. KG, one of the sup­pli­ers, is also part of the con­sor­tium.

Fes­to SE & Co. KG is one of the world’s lead­ing sup­pli­ers of fac­to­ry and process automa­tion tech­nol­o­gy. In CliCE-DiPP, Fes­to is par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in how the cycle can be closed at the end of the prod­uct life cycle and how this can be mapped and sup­port­ed by dig­i­tal twins. As an appli­ca­tion part­ner, Fes­to will there­fore sup­port the devel­op­ment of the con­trol con­cept of a cir­cu­lar econ­o­my using a dig­i­tal twin with its exist­ing exper­tise in coop­er­a­tion with the wbk. The devel­op­ment of a con­sis­tent prod­uct pass­port for cal­cu­lat­ing ener­gy con­sump­tion data and the PCF is of great inter­est to Fes­to, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the con­text of the sus­tain­abil­i­ty goals being pur­sued and pos­si­ble new reg­u­la­tions. Festo’s work in the project will focus on the devel­op­ment and eco­nom­ic and eco­log­i­cal eval­u­a­tion of cir­cu­lar and ser­vice-based busi­ness mod­els. To this end, there will be close coop­er­a­tion with the PTW in TP 4.

The research group “Law in Sus­tain­abil­i­ty, Com­pli­ance and IT” at the Insti­tute for Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems (iisys) at Hof Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences con­tributes addi­tion­al exper­tise in the con­text of data gov­er­nance with regard to prov­ing the legal con­for­mi­ty of data use and thus ensures the legal via­bil­i­ty of the solu­tions devel­oped. The require­ments for sus­tain­abil­i­ty report­ing can only be ensured with trans­par­ent data use and meth­ods. Oth­er­wise, there is a risk of claims for dam­ages aris­ing from incor­rect infor­ma­tion and enor­mous dam­age to the company’s image. Data gov­er­nance mod­els for con­trol­ling the legal­ly com­pli­ant use of data accord­ing to the dimen­sions of data usage rights, data qual­i­ty, data pro­tec­tion, data secu­ri­ty, com­pe­ti­tion and sus­tain­abil­i­ty as well as eth­i­cal use can help to make data use in the sup­ply chain legal­ly com­pli­ant and to trans­form the legal require­ments and report­ing stan­dards into trans­par­ent sus­tain­abil­i­ty report­ing in order to strength­en sus­tain­able action and avoid lia­bil­i­ty. The data mod­els and pro­to­types devel­oped in the sub-projects will be exam­ined with regard to these issues. Addi­tion­al require­ments for the solu­tion devel­op­ment of all part­ners can be derived from this. This also applies in par­tic­u­lar to the busi­ness mod­el archi­tec­tures devel­oped in SP 4.

As an appli­ca­tion part­ner, Lorenz is par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in strength­en­ing its exist­ing activ­i­ties in the field of recy­cling man­age­ment and reman­u­fac­tur­ing. The com­pa­ny spe­cial­izes in flow mea­sure­ment with a focus on res­i­den­tial, domes­tic and bulk water meters. In addi­tion to con­tribut­ing know-how from pre­vi­ous activ­i­ties and the BMBF research project RETHINK, Lorenz will pro­vide sup­port in par­tic­u­lar with use cas­es and data. In addi­tion to the activ­i­ties in the field of recy­cling man­age­ment, the devel­op­ment of a cross-sec­tor prod­uct pass­port is of par­tic­u­lar inter­est. To this end, close coop­er­a­tion with ABM-Mess Ser­vice (con­sor­tium part­ner, cus­tomer) and Diehl (asso­ci­at­ed part­ner, sup­pli­er) is planned. In addi­tion to improv­ing data exchange and data avail­abil­i­ty to pro­mote exist­ing cir­cu­lar econ­o­my activ­i­ties, the focus here is also on the pos­si­bil­i­ty of sav­ing resources along the entire val­ue chain and devel­op­ing new prod­uct pass­port-dri­ven busi­ness mod­els based on this.

As a man­u­fac­tur­er of con­struc­tion pro­files, Pro­tek­tor is act­ing as an appli­ca­tion part­ner in the project and is mak­ing its pro­duc­tion process­es avail­able as a devel­op­ment envi­ron­ment with­in the frame­work of CliCE-DiPP. To this end, the pro­duc­tion facil­i­ties are to be equipped with appro­pri­ate sen­sor tech­nol­o­gy in order to deter­mine the ener­gy and resource con­sump­tion for pro­duc­tion with the help of the dig­i­tal CO2prod­uct pass­port that is to be devel­oped. With the help of this data, the poten­tial for opti­miz­ing the oper­a­tion of the pro­duc­tion facil­i­ties for ener­gy- and resource-effi­cient pro­duc­tion will be inves­ti­gat­ed in col­lab­o­ra­tion with wbk, where­by pro­duc­tion con­trol must remain eco­nom­i­cal­ly viable. In addi­tion, the exist­ing shop floor man­age­ment sys­tem will be expand­ed to include sus­tain­abil­i­ty data based on con­cepts devel­oped by the research part­ners wbk and PTW in order to raise employ­ee aware­ness of ener­gy- and resource-effi­cient pro­duc­tion and ensure effec­tive knowl­edge trans­fer. This is expect­ed to result in high­er mate­r­i­al uti­liza­tion dur­ing pro­duc­tion start-up and reg­u­lar oper­a­tion.

The Insti­tute for Pro­duc­tion Man­age­ment, Tech­nol­o­gy and Machine Tools at Darm­stadt Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty (PTW) is ful­fill­ing var­i­ous tasks with­in the project as a research part­ner. Togeth­er with Soft­ware GmbH, a data mod­el based on OPC UA machine data is being devel­oped for cal­cu­lat­ing the prod­uct car­bon foot­print (PCF) in the admin­is­tra­tion shell. To enrich the data mod­el, a val­ue stream-con­sis­tent trace­abil­i­ty sys­tem is being designed for the needs-based reg­is­tra­tion and dereg­is­tra­tion of indi­vid­ual com­po­nents. Fur­ther­more, the PTW is play­ing a lead­ing role in enabling pro­duc­tion resources to track CO2data, which will allow the data mod­el to be trans­ferred to a pro­duc­tion chain. For pro­to­typ­i­cal imple­men­ta­tion, PTW pro­vides the lat­est insti­tute-owned learn­ing fac­to­ry, “Flow­Fac­to­ry,” in addi­tion to the exist­ing infra­struc­tures in the TEC-Lab and ETA learn­ing fac­to­ries. The require­ments of the appli­ca­tion part­ners are tak­en into account and con­sid­ered for trans­fer­abil­i­ty to ref­er­ence process­es. Togeth­er with the wbk and the appli­ca­tion part­ners, approach­es for using the data obtained in shop floor man­age­ment at man­u­fac­tur­ing com­pa­nies are being devel­oped. The devel­op­ment of a cor­re­spond­ing sys­tem will sup­port employ­ees in imple­ment­ing mea­sures for cli­mate-neu­tral pro­duc­tion. Final­ly, PTW is apply­ing its exper­tise in the field of busi­ness mod­el inno­va­tion to devel­op inno­v­a­tive, incen­tiviz­ing usage mod­els for sus­tain­abil­i­ty data. To this end, new ser­vice approach­es are being devel­oped in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the user com­pa­nies in the project, the asso­ci­at­ed busi­ness mod­el archi­tec­tures are being derived, and their eco­nom­ic via­bil­i­ty and sus­tain­abil­i­ty poten­tial are being eval­u­at­ed.

As an IoT (Inter­net of Things) plat­form provider, Soft­ware GmbH ful­fills two key tasks in CliCE-DiPP. First­ly, it will con­nect the data sources to the dig­i­tal CO2 prod­uct pass­port based on “Cumu­loc­i­ty IoT.” To this end, Soft­ware GmbH will work with its appli­ca­tion part­ners to iden­ti­fy the rel­e­vant data sources and (fur­ther) devel­op or adapt the cor­re­spond­ing inter­faces. Sec­ond, it will use “ARIS Process Min­ing” to iden­ti­fy oppor­tu­ni­ties for CO2 sav­ings in the val­ue stream by detect­ing inef­fi­cien­cies and opti­miza­tion poten­tial in cross-com­pa­ny process data. To this end, Soft­ware GmbH will mod­el the actu­al process from the process data in order to iden­ti­fy oppor­tu­ni­ties for improve­ment through a sub­se­quent target/actual com­par­i­son. In addi­tion, Soft­ware GmbH will con­tribute to the devel­op­ment of the data mod­el for the dig­i­tal CO2prod­uct pass­port. Soft­ware GmbH has also tak­en over the con­sor­tium lead­er­ship of CliCE-DiPP.

The wbk Insti­tute for Pro­duc­tion Engi­neer­ing, Tech­nol­o­gy, and Machine Tools (wbk) is par­tic­i­pat­ing in CliCE-DiPP with its two research groups Glob­al Pro­duc­tion Strate­gies and Pro­duc­tion Sys­tem Plan­ning, where­by the focus of its col­lab­o­ra­tion is on sub­pro­jects 1 “Data mod­el for cross-sec­tor dig­i­tal CO2prod­uct pass­ports,” 2 “CO2prod­uct pass­port-con­trolled cir­cu­lar econ­o­my,” and 3 “Ener­gy- and resource-effi­cient pro­duc­tion.” In sub­pro­ject 1, wbk is focus­ing on enabling the devel­oped prod­uct pass­port to be used across val­ue chains. To this end, such a val­ue chain is being mapped out in col­lab­o­ra­tion with part­ners Lorenz, ABM-Mess Ser­vice, and Diehl in par­tic­u­lar, so that the prod­uct pass­port can also be test­ed in oper­a­tional use. In addi­tion, a log­ic is being devel­oped togeth­er with the part­ners to allo­cate emis­sions and ener­gy con­sump­tion in the pro­duc­tion net­work or along the val­ue chain that are dif­fi­cult to cal­cu­late to the indi­vid­ual part­ners and to present them trans­par­ent­ly in the prod­uct pass­port. As part of sub­pro­ject 2, an assis­tance sys­tem is being devel­oped with Fes­to, Lorenz, ABM-Mess Ser­vice, and Sen­se­Ing to sup­port the plan­ning and con­trol of mate­r­i­al (return) flows in the cir­cu­lar econ­o­my (CE). Pro­duc­tion estab­lished. To this end, the indi­vid­ual part­ners are con­nect­ed to the AAS and the resource data is record­ed using Sen­se­Ing sen­sor tech­nol­o­gy, par­tic­u­lar­ly for logis­tics process­es in the CE. This data is then processed and entered into sim­u­la­tions in the form of key fig­ures in order to sim­u­late mate­r­i­al (return) flows, there­by sup­port­ing deci­sions on Re‑X strate­gies and the man­age­ment of the CE. Sub­pro­ject 3 focus­es on col­lab­o­ra­tion with PTW to deter­mine new key fig­ures for visu­al­iz­ing resource effi­cien­cy and thus ensur­ing an eco­log­i­cal expan­sion of over­all equip­ment effec­tive­ness. To this end, the pro­duc­tion facil­i­ties at the part­ners Pro­tek­tor and Lorenz must be expand­ed with sen­sor tech­nol­o­gy (Sen­se­Ing) for record­ing ener­gy and resource data. This data will then be used to raise employ­ee aware­ness of resource-effi­cient pro­duc­tion and, in par­tic­u­lar, to devel­op a new con­trol log­ic for pro­duc­tion facil­i­ties with the help of sim­u­la­tion and opti­miza­tion, enabling sus­tain­able (eco­log­i­cal and eco­nom­ic) oper­a­tion. Final­ly, the result­ing demon­stra­tors will be pilot­ed and imple­ment­ed in the Glob­al Pro­duc­tion Learn­ing Fac­to­ry and then estab­lished in prac­tice and real pro­duc­tion at the users’ sites.

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