Sustainable manufacturing through application of reconfigurable and intelligent systems in production processes: a system perspective
Abstract Sustainable production aims at creating products from processes that minimize environmental impact, energy consumption and natural resources. Customers and markets are ever more leaning towards digital, custom, and flexible solutions with lower environmental impact. Hence, Industry 4.0 (I4....
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| author | Marco Todescato Orjola Braholli Dmitry Chaltsev Ilaria Di Blasio Davide Don Georg Egger Julius Emig Gabriele Pasetti Monizza Pasqualina Sacco Dietmar Siegele Dieter Steiner Michael Terzer Michael Riedl Andrea Giusti Dominik Matt |
| author_facet | Marco Todescato Orjola Braholli Dmitry Chaltsev Ilaria Di Blasio Davide Don Georg Egger Julius Emig Gabriele Pasetti Monizza Pasqualina Sacco Dietmar Siegele Dieter Steiner Michael Terzer Michael Riedl Andrea Giusti Dominik Matt |
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| description | Abstract Sustainable production aims at creating products from processes that minimize environmental impact, energy consumption and natural resources. Customers and markets are ever more leaning towards digital, custom, and flexible solutions with lower environmental impact. Hence, Industry 4.0 (I4.0) solutions are increasingly including social and environmental sustainability aspects. We focus on the realization of an infrastructure integrating industrially relevant application modules by combining system reconfigurability and artificial intelligence, towards sustainable production. To meet the final goal of sustainable production, we address four challenges considering flexibility and sustainability in production in a holistic way: (1) developing infrastructural and methodological tools to support companies to explore the potential of I4.0 towards sustainable production; (2) managing the configurability and customization possibilities of products; (3) effectively handling the flexibility provided by a production system with rapid reconfiguration capabilities; (4) integrating hardware and software flexibility by using reconfigurable robotics and machine learning methods. By developing and connecting different application modules, we obtain a physical demonstrator which represents on the one hand an exemplary scenario of reconfigurable and flexible production system; on the other, it enables new research activities and insights with a see, touch & feel approach for industrial and research realities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0d03b698132b454e823461a6bd1747532024-04-07T11:19:40ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222023-12-0113111310.1038/s41598-023-49727-5Sustainable manufacturing through application of reconfigurable and intelligent systems in production processes: a system perspectiveMarco Todescato0Orjola Braholli1Dmitry Chaltsev2Ilaria Di Blasio3Davide Don4Georg Egger5Julius Emig6Gabriele Pasetti Monizza7Pasqualina Sacco8Dietmar Siegele9Dieter Steiner10Michael Terzer11Michael Riedl12Andrea Giusti13Dominik Matt14Fraunhofer Italia ResearchFraunhofer Italia ResearchFraunhofer Italia ResearchFraunhofer Italia ResearchFraunhofer Italia ResearchFraunhofer Italia ResearchFraunhofer Italia ResearchFraunhofer Italia ResearchFraunhofer Italia ResearchFraunhofer Italia ResearchFraunhofer Italia ResearchFraunhofer Italia ResearchFraunhofer Italia ResearchFraunhofer Italia ResearchFraunhofer Italia ResearchAbstract Sustainable production aims at creating products from processes that minimize environmental impact, energy consumption and natural resources. Customers and markets are ever more leaning towards digital, custom, and flexible solutions with lower environmental impact. Hence, Industry 4.0 (I4.0) solutions are increasingly including social and environmental sustainability aspects. We focus on the realization of an infrastructure integrating industrially relevant application modules by combining system reconfigurability and artificial intelligence, towards sustainable production. To meet the final goal of sustainable production, we address four challenges considering flexibility and sustainability in production in a holistic way: (1) developing infrastructural and methodological tools to support companies to explore the potential of I4.0 towards sustainable production; (2) managing the configurability and customization possibilities of products; (3) effectively handling the flexibility provided by a production system with rapid reconfiguration capabilities; (4) integrating hardware and software flexibility by using reconfigurable robotics and machine learning methods. By developing and connecting different application modules, we obtain a physical demonstrator which represents on the one hand an exemplary scenario of reconfigurable and flexible production system; on the other, it enables new research activities and insights with a see, touch & feel approach for industrial and research realities.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-49727-5 |
| spellingShingle | Marco Todescato Orjola Braholli Dmitry Chaltsev Ilaria Di Blasio Davide Don Georg Egger Julius Emig Gabriele Pasetti Monizza Pasqualina Sacco Dietmar Siegele Dieter Steiner Michael Terzer Michael Riedl Andrea Giusti Dominik Matt Sustainable manufacturing through application of reconfigurable and intelligent systems in production processes: a system perspective Scientific Reports |
| title | Sustainable manufacturing through application of reconfigurable and intelligent systems in production processes: a system perspective |
| title_full | Sustainable manufacturing through application of reconfigurable and intelligent systems in production processes: a system perspective |
| title_fullStr | Sustainable manufacturing through application of reconfigurable and intelligent systems in production processes: a system perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sustainable manufacturing through application of reconfigurable and intelligent systems in production processes: a system perspective |
| title_short | Sustainable manufacturing through application of reconfigurable and intelligent systems in production processes: a system perspective |
| title_sort | sustainable manufacturing through application of reconfigurable and intelligent systems in production processes a system perspective |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-49727-5 |
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