CloudiFacturing | Cloudification of Production Engineering for Predictive Digital Manufacturing
01-10-2017
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It is expected that new nozzle design and thus new water quench will be available for the customers in 5 years time. It is expected that those new products will attract new clients: 5 new contracts in 1 year increasing to 10 new contracts in 5 years, which will increase the turnover of Ferram by 500k Euros in 1 year and 3,5 million Euros in 5 years after the experiment end.
IT4Innovations as DIH and resource provider is expecting the experiment to increase their innovation potential and improve their competitiveness. They are also expecting to increase the number of customers: It is expected that 2 new customers will be attracted due to new capabilities within 5 years after the experiment and will create new sources of revenue.
The cloud-based optimisation of lamination oven’s configuration will lead to the following significant impacts: saving in energy consumption will result in saving of 18,000 kWh a year (short-term) and it will reach 27,000 kWh a year (medium-term). These figures can be multiplied by three in the long term because EndeF is going to build two new ovens. EndeF will drop CO2 emissions by 4,500 kg CO2eq and by 6750 kg CO2eq a year (short- and medium-term).
Hydal, as end user, will benefit from optimized process of water quenching by saving energy and scrap material and by having shorter turnover time as well. Expected economic impact is estimated 100 K€ a year on energy savings alone. Expected economic impact is estimated on 500 000 Euros on in turnover increase in first year after the experiment. This value will rise to the 2 million of euro after 5 years from the experiment.
For end user Ferram, it is expected that the experiment will increase in the turnover and in the number of new jobs created. Outcomes of the experiment will allow Ferram to develop a new generation of water quenches which allow for heat treatment of profiles that are hard or even impossible to cool down with existing water quenches today. This will bring a competitive advantage to Ferram and thus increase the number of customers.
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