Project overview

Green­house gas­es are pri­mar­i­ly respon­si­ble for the ongo­ing change in the glob­al cli­mate. In Ger­many, as in many coun­tries around the world, there are there­fore reg­u­la­tions in place to reduce CO₂emis­sions, for exam­ple through the Paris Agree­ment. One of the largest sources of CO₂emis­sions is the indus­tri­al sec­tor. In order to achieve cli­mate tar­gets, indus­try must there­fore dras­ti­cal­ly reduce its green­house gas emis­sions. Against this back­drop, it can be assumed that in the future only prod­ucts with a low CO₂foot­print will be con­sid­ered com­pet­i­tive. It is par­tic­u­lar­ly impor­tant that green­house gas emis­sions across the entire val­ue chain are made transparent—including all expens­es, such as trans­porta­tion. Only then is it pos­si­ble to con­sid­er and opti­mize the entire prod­uct life cycle.

CliCE-DiPP will devel­op a dig­i­tal CO₂prod­uct pass­port that con­tains all rel­e­vant sus­tain­abil­i­ty and ener­gy data across com­pa­nies, using the met­al­work­ing indus­try and mea­sur­ing equip­ment sec­tor as exam­ples. The dig­i­tal prod­uct pass­port will not only pro­vide infor­ma­tion about the respec­tive prod­uct-spe­cif­ic CO₂foot­print, but will also enable the pro­duc­tion process to be opti­mized in terms of ener­gy and resource con­sump­tion – across the entire val­ue chain.

To cre­ate the nec­es­sary trans­paren­cy of ener­gy con­sump­tion and CO₂a dig­i­tal prod­uct pass­port is being devel­oped emis­sions and to col­lect infor­ma­tion on resource con­sump­tion through­out the entire val­ue chain. It is intend­ed to pro­vide com­pa­nies with a ref­er­ence point for gen­er­al process opti­miza­tion. The data exchange required for this takes place via OPC UA inter­faces, for exam­ple (i.e. via the “Uni­fied Archi­tec­ture” spec­i­fi­ca­tion of the “Open Plat­form Com­mu­ni­ca­tions” stan­dard). The data is then stored in the asset admin­is­tra­tion shell, which pro­vides a stan­dard­ized frame­work for the exchange and pro­vi­sion of infor­ma­tion.

Assis­tance sys­tems sup­port employ­ees in con­trol­ling the over­all ener­gy effi­cien­cy of the sys­tem. For ener­gy- and resource-effi­cient store floor man­age­ment (SFM), demon­stra­tors are first pilot­ed and val­i­dat­ed in the learn­ing fac­to­ries of the sci­en­tif­ic insti­tutes and then trans­ferred to real appli­ca­tion sce­nar­ios at the appli­ca­tion com­pa­nies.