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OPTICIAN2020 | Flexible and on-demand manufacturing of customised spectacles by close-to-optician production clusters

01-10-2013

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30-09-2016

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Reduction of material consumption (in %)
30
Comment: According to data provided by Optician partners in the Consortium, ~20%-40% of spectacles are stocked up with conventional production systems that most of the times are never selled and can be considered waste. Based on that figure, 1.3 spectacles (30% of stock) should be produced in standard manufacturing process in comparison with the Optician 2020 production system. Besides, additive manufacturing technologies improve the energy consumption and raw material output/input ratio of traditional processes

CLOUDFLOW | Computational Cloud Services and Workflows for Agile Engineering

01-07-2013

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31-12-2016

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Comment: 6 of the CloudFlow application experiments are rooted in the design and engineering chain for hydrowater plants which are one important pillar of the green energy sector
Material efficiency
Comment: reduce the waste of raw material
Reduction of material consumption (in %)
5
Comment: Biocurve manufactures condensing biomass boilers for central heating and hot water systems for domestic users. Development of a virtual model of the current 25 kW boiler model in which the number of pipes has been reduced from ten to three. The reduction of the number of pipes in this model represents a saving of 18 kg of stainless steel (a 32% of the original weight of the pipes of this boiler). This lower number of pipes implies savings of raw material, but also, savings in fabrication costs (lower hours of workforce required, smaller insulation needed, less paint) and transport costs (lower volume of the boiler). The total cost saved estimated for this model is around 400 € per unit. Within the experiment for optimizing energy consumption and noise emission of the cooling airflow for compressors some of the physical

MEMAN | Integral Material and Energy flow MANagement in MANufacturing metal mechanic sector

01-01-2015

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30-06-2018

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Comment: Material consumption will be reduced thanks to the efficient component design and recycling approaches.
Reduction of material consumption (in %)
10
Comment: From the 3 industrial scenarios considered, the automotive use case forecasts a reduction of 10% on the used material due to new lightweight design and future recycling of material (chips and scraps will be re-introduced as secondary source).

Eco-Solar | Eco-Solar Factory - 40%plus eco-efficiency gains in the photovoltaic value chain with minimised resource and energy consumption by closed loop systems

10-01-2015

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30-09-2018

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Reduction of material consumption (in %)
80
Comment: High pure argon purge gas is normally vented after entering the furnace. Argon gas recycling rate of 95% has been achiecved. Silicon nitride crucibles can be reused compared to conventional silica-based crucible which can be only used once.

Symbionica | SYMBIONICA - Reconfigurable Machine for the new Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing of next generation fully personalized bionics and smart prosthetics

10-01-2015

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30-09-2018

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Reduction of material consumption (in %)
95
Comment: MM-AM requires specific materials currently much more expensive in the case of Titanium powder, the higher cost is partially recovered by an efficient use of material (AM-Ti costs about 9 times more than conventional but AM has 95% efficiency compared to 20% of conventional machining

SERENA | VerSatilE plug-and-play platform enabling remote pREdictive mainteNAnce

01-10-2017

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31-03-2021

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Reduction of material consumption (in %)
15
Comment:

Production equipment uses a number of process resources to operate such as water, air, lubricants, other. In time maintenance activities wnabled by the SERENA predictive maintenance platfrom and optimising the scheduling of maintenance operations can have a significant impact on the consumption of such resources when the equipment is not in proper working condition.

Z-BRE4K | Strategies and Predictive Maintenance models wrapped around physical systems for Zero-unexpected-Breakdowns and increased operating life of Factories

01-10-2017

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31-03-2021

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Comment:

Z-BRE4K will lead to the optimisation of the performance, avoiding waste due to malfunctioning machinery and increased energy consumption due to the presence of failures. the reduction of the electric costs is extimated by 10%.

Material efficiency
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The avoidance of defective production and overproduction will lead to a better efficiency in the use of materials.

Reduction of material consumption (in %)
0
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It is too early to provide any info 

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