- Start: 01/10/2019
- End: 30/09/2023
Europe is still lacking an efficient systemic multi-level approach that enables a recursive, cost-effective and integrated application of circular principles to the digital uplifting of factory 4.0 capital investments.
LEVEL-UP will offer a scalable platform covering the overall lifecycle, ranging from the digital twins setup, modernisation actions to diagnose and predict the operation of physical assets, to the refurbishment and remanufacturing activities towards end of life.
LEVEL-UP will therefore comprise new hardware and software components interfaced with the current facilities through IoT and data-management platforms, while being orchestrated through eight scalable strategies at component, work-station and shopfloor level. The actions for modernising, upgrading, refurbishing, remanufacturing, and recycling will be structured and formalised into ten special Protocols, linked with an Industrial Digital Thread weaving a seamless digital integration with all actors in the value chain for improved future iterations. LEVEL-UP will be demonstrated in 7 demo sites from different sectors.
The impact of LEVEL-UP to the European manufacturing industry, but also the society itself, can be summarised in: (i) increase of the material and resource efficiency by 11.5%, (ii) increased reliability by 16% of the equipment in an extended lifetime by 20%, (iii) over 50% increase of the Return on Investment (ROI), (iv) about 810 new jobs created and (v) over 80M EUR ROI for the consortium.
- Sectors: Aeronautical, Automotive, Carpentry, Metal mechanical, Railway
- Financing programme: Horizon 2020
- R&D&i: Integrated monitoring and control systems
- Partners: INEGI, IDEKO, DANOBAT, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, ATLANTIS ENGINEERING AE, Brunel University London, Core Innovation and Technology OE, ASOCIACION DE EMPRESAS TECNOLOGICAS INNOVALIA, TRIMEK SA, HOLONIX SRL - SPIN OFF DEL POLITECNICO DI MILANO, CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT SCPA (CRF), FAGOR Arrasate S. COOP., ESI SOFTWARE GERMANY GMBH, Tampere University, BIBA – Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH, Sensap Swiss AG, KMWE PRECISION BV, SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Estampaciones Mayo S.A., Austrian Standards International, SOFIES SA, TOSHULIN, a.s., Thinking Additive Ltd, TTS - Technology Transfer System S.r.l., IPC - Centre Technique Industriel de la Plasturgie et des Composites, Marlegno s.r.l., Koplast Ekstruzija in konfekcija, d.o.o., LUCCHINI RS SPA, IDSA - International Data Spaces Association, SCM GROUP SPA
- Acronym: LEVEL-UP
- Ambit: International
- Web: https://levelup-project.aimen.es/
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