MiE_25-27_RP09: Life-cycle management of manufacturing solutions and associated services for flexible, productive and sustainable manufacturing industry
- Manufacturing systems are progressing along the transition towards circular economy. Key components of manufacturing systems (such as electrical motors or control systems) also are part of the circular economy industrial ecosystem.
- In the meantime, the ongoing servitisation trend where manufacturing companies deploy manufacturing equipment as a “product-service” increases the creation of long-term partnerships between manufacturing system providers and manufacturing companies, associated to the application of innovative business models.
- Services can be associated to the modification of the behaviour of machinery, repurposing, reconfiguration, customising, energy efficiency... and the integration in the manufacturing process and equipment in the work flow of the manufacturing company.
- While services can have a ‘short-term’ component (as described under the priority ‘Quick response service deployment for maintaining optimal manufacturing operations using trusted AI and digital twins’), there is also a longer term component, where the full life-cycle orientation includes circular aspects of the manufacturing system
- These services and the associated enabling technologies are evolving along the (extended) lifecycle of these manufacturing systems.