- Start: 01/01/2023
- End: 30/06/2026
DaCapo aims at establishing a systematic approach enabling the creation of human-centric digital tools and services for improving
the adoption of Circular Economy strategies along both manufacturing value chains and products lifecycles (design and engineering,
manufacturing, use phase and End of Life). These tools and services, focused on the creation of new digital assets, AI-based systems
and the application of process and product Digital Twins, will greatly improve sustainability, efficiency, and use of imported and CRM
in manufacturing, towards digital-enabled industrial sustainability and resilience.
The backbone of the project will be a new methodological approach supporting decision-making, considering business models,
material flows and circular strategies along the manufacturing value chains. Digital Product Passports and a Circular Economy
Decision Support System will be developed as high-level tools, facilitating the trustful exchange of assets, the selection of optimum
circular stock management strategies and tools, and the definition of informed and coordinated products lifecycle management
decisions in a safe, reliable and agile way. A modular Digital Thread concept will be developed as a normalized method for
orchestrating the gathering and contextualization of data at different points of the product lifecycle, enhancing data availability for
the definition of indicators and optimisation criteria. On top of that, DaCapo will develop a digital architecture aligned with
interoperability and connectivity standards, guaranteeing end-to-end horizontal and vertical integration, boosting data sharing and
exploitation under the EU Data Spaces framework and maximizing replicability potential.
A consortium of 8 top Research Institutions and 6 relevant industry partners, backed by 1 EU association for technology
standardisation, will demonstrate DaCapo on 3 relevant and EU Critical Value Chains production environments (aeronautics,
electronics and logist).
- Sectors: Aeronautical, Electronics, Logistics
- Financing programme: HORIZON EUROPE
- R&D&i: Flexible manufacturing cells, Integrated monitoring and control systems, Life cycle assessment. Carbon footprint., Mass customization, Robotics for logistics
- Partners: UNIMORE- Università Degli Studi Di Modena E Reggio Emilia, Core Innovation and Technology OE, CEA - Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Scuola Universitaria Professionale Della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI), Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy, GKN AEROSPACE SWEDEN AB, PANEPISTIMO PATRON, POLITECNICO DI MILANO, IDSA - International Data Spaces Association, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A., NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO, Pace Aerospace Engineering and information technology GMBH, Pesmel OY, Fairphone BV
- Acronym: DACAPO
- Ambit: International
- Web: https://www.dacapo-project.eu/
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