DaCapo will provide a holistic framework of digital solutions to transform EU industrial value chains and manufacturing products lifecycles.
To achieve this aim, DaCapo will be based on the following key digital developments:
Technology
The Architecture
as a virtual environment to deploy and provision DaCapo digital tools and services. It will be aligned with standardised industry initiatives, establishing any needed connectors and IoT gateways to guarantee ET/IT/OT convergence, as well as horizontal and vertical integration.
A RAMI 4.0-compliant digital platform
A newly conceptualised DPP
working as a trusted and secured relevant-product information digital representation, oriented to coordinate business operations and decisions among manufacturing value chain actors.
A digital pipeline based on a Modular Digital Thread concept
capable of integrating product and process data, enabling a bidirectional dataflow for an end-to-end digital infrastructure (from the design to the product EoL), boosting data sharing along the lifecycle by connecting all hierarchy levels and assets (including professionals).
Realistic DT (products and processes)
by promoting the holistic integration of advanced simulations and products/processes/resources data through their whole lifecycle, operating as baseline tools to implement and validate optimisation strategies at every product lifecycle stage.
A CE-DSS as the key knowledge backbone
running above the digital platform hosting DaCapo tools and services. It will be based on in-time sustainability and circularity assessment leveraged by the usage of AI to provide cognition and forecasting capabilities.
Product-centric management approaches and eco-design approaches
powered by product DT and generative design tools, respectively by exploring new
eco-design and engineering possibilities oriented to reduce resources consumption and increase resilience related to material flows dependencies.
Sustainable manufacturing strategies at shopfloor level
combining online control and monitoring, inline quality assurance for early defects detection and propagation avoidance to downstream stages, as well as the automatic process parameters tuning and dynamic control, enabling rework and remanufacturing opportunities.
Advanced diagnostics tools and improved predictive maintenance strategies
based on product tracking and quality status assessment oriented to extend products lifespan by enhancing repairing and/or refurbishment operations, together with easy disassembly/dismantling at the EoL towards reuse and materials recycle.