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Ideation Workshop at FESTO

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Last week, the team from the CliCE-DiPP research project met for an ideation workshop at the Festo production site in Ostfildern near Stuttgart. As an innovation leader, Festo offers pneumatic and electric drive technology for factory and process automation as well as state-of-the-art qualification solutions for the industrial environment. In addition to practical insights into individual FESTO products and the market environment in which these products are used, the aim of the workshop was also to generate ideas for new circular and sustainable value chains and economic models for the future. In fact, some very creative and exciting ideas emerged that will certainly be pursued in the future and perhaps even implemented in one form or another.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Daniel Ditterich and the FESTO team for organizing the workshop and hosting us so well. It is exhilarating to see the areas in which some SMEs in Germany, such as FESTO, have specialized and are successful in the market with innovative products.

The fun fact of the day was that we used the same meeting room that Dr. Angela Merkel used as German Chancellor when she visited FESTO some years ago. As you can imagine, this provided additional motivation for the work – because “there was no alternative”. 🙂

End of 2023 in CliCE-DiPP Project

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The last consortium meeting of the year in CliCE-DiPP about two weeks ago was the last major milestone in the project. The event was made a highlight by the participation of the BMWK and DLR, who not only contributed helpful comments and questions to the interim results presented but also had many ideas for cooperation with other consortia, for example. As a result, the consortium meeting was more than “just” a meeting to discuss the current interim results, but also to set the course for further successful (collaborative) work.

In general, the consortium is extremely committed and, in addition to a series of smaller demonstrators and connections, has already been able to show several findings with regard to the elicitation of the product carbon footprint (PCF) as part of a so-called asset administration shell (AAS), but also concerning business process development taking into account sustainability criteria and sustainability strategies. It will be exciting to see how the project develops over time.

With the last reports at the end of the year, things will be a little quieter, but that will certainly change quickly with the new year. I would therefore like to wish the CliCE-DiPP project team and project partners a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in advance.

CliCE-DiPP Consortium Meeting

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Impressive consortium meeting of the CliCE-DiPP research project at the Institut für Produktionsmanagement, Technologie und Werkzeugmaschinen – PTW at Technische Universität Darmstadt: We sat right in a room next to the Flow Factory and were able to gain an insight into the future of production technology. As part of the CliCE-DiPP research project, all production facilities there are being equipped with sensor technology to evaluate the product carbon footprint and CO2 product passport.  This involves sawing, milling and laser processing, as well as a powder coating system. It was great to see the project partners again, catch up on the latest developments and exchange ideas for the next phase of the project, and a big thank you to the PTW hosts for their hospitality and delicious food.

Production Tour at Protektor

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Yesterday we had the impressive opportunity to take a look behind the scenes of the production at Protektor, at its headquarters in Gaggenau (Germany), as part of the German research project CliCE-DiPP. As a leading manufacturer of building profiles in Europe, they are also confronted with the issues of energy efficiency and sustainable production life cycle.  Both aspects are addressed in the CliCE-DiPP project, with a focus on a practical solution that the manufacturing industry can use to, among other things, create Product Carbon Footprints within a so-called Asset Administration Shell.

Besides a clearer understanding of how the production works at Protektor, we, later on, discussed a variety of aspects of what is necessary to create a Product Carbon Footprint but also what has to be advanced and be done to really go ahead toward a sustainable product life cycle.

Many thanks again to the Protektor team, especially Dr. Christof Maisch, Dr. Jörg Böllhoff, Luisa Schäfer, and Kevin Weisgerber, who allowed us to take a look at the production and gave us so many insights into their strategies, ideas, and current progress toward more sustainability.