This open access book summarizes research being pursued within the FENIX project, funded by the EU community under the H2020 programme, the goal of which is to design a new product service paradigm able to promote innovative business models, to open added value to the vessels and to create new market segments. It experiments and validates its approach on three new concepts of added-value specialized vessels able to run requested services for several maritime sectors in the most effective, efficient, economic valuable and eco-friendly way. The three vessels share the same lean design methodology, IoT tools and HPC simulation strategy: a lean fact-based design model approach, which combines real operative data at sea with lean methodology, to support the development and implementation of the vessel concepts; IT customized tools to enable the acquisition, processing and usage of on board and local weather data, through an IoT platform, to provide business services to different stakeholders; HPC simulation, providing a virtual towing tank environment, for early vessel design improvement and testing. The book demonstrates that an integrated LCC analysis and LCC strategy to guarantee sustainability to vessels concepts and the proper environmental attention inside the maritime industry.
Author(s): Paolo Rosa, Sergio Terzi
Series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology: PoliMI SpringerBriefs
Publisher: Springer-PoliMi
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 157
City: Milan
Preface
Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 Circular Economy
1.2 Industry 4.0
1.3 Product-Service Systems
1.4 The FENIX Project
References
2 Circular Business Models Identification
2.1 Current State of the Art on CBMs and Their Classification Methods
2.2 Current State of the Art on Industrial Benefits Related with CBMs
2.3 Identification of the FENIX Industrial Benefits
2.4 Identification of the FENIX CBMs
2.5 Implementation of the FENIX CBM Assessment Matrixes
2.6 Conclusions
References
3 Circular Economy Performance Assessment
3.1 State of the Art on Circular Economy Performance Assessment Methods
3.2 The Circular Economy Performance Assessment Methodology
3.3 Circularity Product Assessment (CPA) Methodology
3.3.1 CPA Phase 1—Objectives Definition and Settings
3.3.2 CPA Phase 2—Inventory Analysis and Resource Flows Decomposition
3.3.3 CPA Phase 3—Weights and Indexes Calculation
3.3.4 CPA Phase 4—Circularity Indexes Calculation
3.4 Conclusions
References
4 Semi-automated PCB Disassembly Station
4.1 State of the Art on WEEE Disassembly Processes
4.1.1 Cobots and Disassembly Processes
4.1.2 Cobots and WEEE Disassembly Processes
4.1.3 Cobots and PCB Disassembly Processes
4.2 The Semi-automated PCB Disassembly Station at POLIMI’s Industry 4.0 Lab
4.2.1 Structure of the PCB Disassembly Station
4.2.2 The PCB Disassembly Process in Detail
4.2.3 Front/Back PCB Disassembly Process Setup
4.2.4 Front/back PCB Desoldering Process
4.3 ROS-Based Control Architecture Setup
4.3.1 Low-Level Real Time Controller
4.3.2 High-Level Task and Safety Management Controller
4.3.3 Cobot State and Trajectory Planning Real Time Visualization Tool
4.3.4 Operator-Oriented Manual Control Interface
4.3.5 Real Time Process Data Gathering Tool
4.3.6 Desk Web Interface
4.3.7 FRANKA® Control Interface
4.4 Application and Results
4.4.1 Manual Desoldering Tests
4.4.2 Cobot-Assisted Desoldering Tests
4.4.3 Data Gathering from Cobot-Assisted Desoldering Tests
4.5 Conclusions
References
5 A Mobile Pilot Plant for the Recovery of Precious and Critical Raw Materials
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Pilot Plant Design and Description by Process Performing
5.2.1 GOLD REC 1 Process Description
5.2.2 GOLD REC 2 Process Description
5.3 Conclusion
References
6 An Innovative (DIW-Based) Additive Manufacturing Process
6.1 Direct Ink Writing
6.1.1 DIW Technology Introduction
6.1.2 Ink Process Generation for DIW Technology
6.1.3 Printable DIW Parts Design Criteria
6.2 Whys of DIW
6.3 FENIX’s DIW Machine
6.3.1 Machine Parts
6.3.2 Printing Process with FENIX Machine
6.3.3 First Test Validation
6.3.4 Sintering Process Parameters
6.4 Technology’s Viability
6.4.1 Applications in the Industry
6.4.2 Applications in the Industry
6.5 Conclusions
Reference
7 The Life Cycle Performance Assessment (LCPA) Methodology
7.1 Sustainable Business Models
7.2 Electrical and Electronic Waste Market
7.3 Life Cycle Performance Assessment (LCPA) for FENIX
7.4 Assessment of FENIX Implementations
7.5 LCA Assessment of the FENIX Processes and Use Cases
7.6 Conclusions
References
8 A Decision-Support System for the Digitization of Circular Supply Chains
8.1 Extracted Materials Quality Prediction
8.2 Rules Extraction
8.3 Time Series Forecasting
8.4 Materials Classification
8.5 Conclusions
References
9 User Participation and Social Integration Through ICT Technologies
9.1 Customer Engagement Strategies
9.2 FENIX Digital Ecosystem and Provided Incentives
9.2.1 Social Benefits
9.2.2 Entertainment Benefits
9.2.3 Economic Benefits
9.3 FENIX Crowdsourcing System
9.3.1 Role of Human Users
9.3.2 Crowdvoting System
9.4 FENIX Pre-identified Goals and Link to Developed Mechanisms
9.5 The Digital Marketplace
9.5.1 Forum
9.5.2 The Main Marketplace
9.5.3 Showroom
9.5.4 Customer’s Generated Content
9.5.5 Open Innovation Platform
9.5.6 Other Horizontally Applied Functions
9.6 Conclusions
References
10 Recycling and Upcycling: FENIX Validation on Three Use Cases
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Albus, the Data Repository of FENIX
10.3 Collection and Dismantling, the Conventional Approach
10.4 Semi-Automated Disassembly, an Innovative Approach
10.5 Use Case 1: Green Metal Powders for Additive Manufacturing
10.6 Use Case 2: 3D Printed Jewels
10.6.1 Description of the Involved Plants in UC2
10.6.2 Metal Recovery
10.6.3 3D Scanning
10.6.4 Wax Printing and Lost-Wax Casting
10.7 Use Case 3: Advanced Filaments
10.7.1 Granulation, Compounding and Extrusion
10.7.2 Printing of the Metal/polymer Filaments Developed from Recycled WEEE
10.7.3 Debinding and Sintering of the Final Metal Part
10.8 Conclusions
10.8.1 Use Case 1 Conclusions
10.8.2 Use Case 2 Conclusions
10.8.3 Use Case 3 Conclusions
