COMPASS

A data-driven remanufacturing process for sheet metal and thermoplastic

The COMPASS project aims at establishing a re-manufacturing process, based on reforming, and supported by digital tools, to give components a second life without converting them to raw material.

The target is to make more efficient the recycling and remanufacturing processes (for sheet metal parts) and to find a solution for large quantities of thermoplastic fibre-reinforced components at their end of life. This will be achieved through (thermo-)forming processes and digital tools built upon a digital product passport that allow the re-shaping of parts and components to give them a second and third life. The digital product passport will contain information about a component, updating this information along the whole life cycle of that component, and making the information available for efficient repairing and high-quality end of life processes. Moreover, the tools will enable efficient dismantling processes to extract sheets or panels e.g. from an aircraft and will help to collect relevant information about the components during their lifetime. The main use cases are from the aerospace and automotive sector and include key actors along the value chain. By using digital information about defects, re-work or repair done during the lifetime of the components. The quality of the resulting, remanufactured output parts will be optimized. A remanufacturing process planning software will also optimize the match between input components and targeted output parts.

The COMPASS project will initiate more than 6M€ of private investments in technology development and implementation of remanufacturing process in the use cases investigated in the project. The overall goal is to enable the remanufacturing of about 30% of sheet metal parts and thermoplastic composite panels.

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