Procedia CIRPPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2025.01.048
Ritesh Deore , Shipra Pandey
{"title":"Evaluating Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Strategies in the EU Automotive Industry: Implications for Developing Countries","authors":"Ritesh Deore , Shipra Pandey","doi":"10.1016/j.procir.2025.01.048","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.procir.2025.01.048","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The automotive industry is pivotal in shaping sustainable practices due to its significant environmental, economic, and social impacts. This paper investigates Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) Strategies within the European Union (EU) automotive sector and their implications for developing countries. By reviewing the literature, we identified seven LCSA strategies and six key sustainability impact factors: environmental impact, economic feasibility, social benefits, resource efficiency, innovation potential, and regulatory compliance. We employed the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) analysis to evaluate and rank these strategies based on their effectiveness and applicability. The results indicate that while the EU’s advanced regulatory framework and technological capabilities facilitate the adoption of robust LCSA frameworks, developing countries face challenges such as limited infrastructure, financial constraints, and weaker regulatory mechanisms. However, the transfer of knowledge and technology from the EU to developing nations can bridge these gaps, fostering global sustainability in the automotive industry. This study underscores the necessity for tailored LCSA strategy that consider regional differences and encourages collaborative efforts to enhance sustainable practices worldwide. The findings provide valuable insights for policymakers, industry stakeholders, and researchers aiming to advance sustainability in the automotive sector.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20535,"journal":{"name":"Procedia CIRP","volume":"135 ","pages":"Pages 221-225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144656572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Procedia CIRPPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2024.12.014
Muhammad Umar Farooq , Daniel Cooper
{"title":"Multi-fidelity machine learning framework for life cycle assessment: a manufacturing case study on aluminum rolling","authors":"Muhammad Umar Farooq , Daniel Cooper","doi":"10.1016/j.procir.2024.12.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.procir.2024.12.014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Manufacturing industries are increasingly focused on achieving sustainability targets, which has driven the development of environmental impact models often based on life cycle assessment (LCA) methods and databases. However, these databases tend to be too generic to ensure accurate modelling (e.g., using global or regional average impact values per unit of mass processed). To improve accuracy, companies can generate customized data inventories through experiments or simulations, but these approaches are typically costly, time-consuming, and may disrupt daily operations. This article introduces a partial physics-based, multi-fidelity machine learning approach to generate low-cost, environmental impact models tailored to specific manufacturing systems. The framework uses reduced-order, low-fidelity, physics-based models to capture the process dynamics, followed by transfer learning with small volumes of high-fidelity (e.g., experimental) data. This allows for accurate gate-to-gate environmental impact predictions without the need for extensive experimental campaigns. The framework is demonstrated on a lab-scale metal rolling mill for predicting power consumption in gate-to-gate assessments. A simple slab analysis metal forming model trains the base learner, and adaptive boosting is used for transfer learning on experimental data. The framework achieved superior performance, requiring 13% less experimental data than a standalone machine learning model of the same accuracy trained solely on experimental data. This approach may offer a cost-effective solution for generating accurate predictive models in scenarios where data collection is challenging, either due to rigid use of standard process settings or data collection cost and time constraints.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20535,"journal":{"name":"Procedia CIRP","volume":"135 ","pages":"Pages 181-186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144656575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Procedia CIRPPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2025.02.128
Jiankan Liao , Xun Huan , Daniel Cooper
{"title":"Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design for Intelligent Data Collection in Material Flow Analysis","authors":"Jiankan Liao , Xun Huan , Daniel Cooper","doi":"10.1016/j.procir.2025.02.128","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.procir.2025.02.128","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Material flow analyses (MFAs) are powerful tools for identifying and analyzing energy and material efficiency (resource efficiency) opportunities across a supply chain. MFAs are typically represented as directed graphs with key parameters including the mass of the material flows entering the system and the allocation of materials flowing through one node (typically representing a process or location) to other nodes in the system. Parametric uncertainty can hamper the credibility and usability of MFA results. Uncertainty may be reduced by collecting more data; however, an intelligent data acquisition strategy is needed given the limited resources available for completing a given MFA. In this article, we apply Bayesian optimal experimental design (BOED) derived from the Kullback-Leibler divergence to target the collection of high value data, which is then fed into a Bayesian framework to effectively reduce the MFA parametric uncertainty. The methodology is demonstrated using a case study on the 2012 U.S. steel sector. Bayesian inference is then used to validate the BOED results with data collected from the United States Geological Survey and the World Steel Association. This article’s methods allow efficient data collection to rapidly create MFAs with reduced and quantified parametric uncertainty, aiding decision makers in their efforts to pursue resource efficiency.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20535,"journal":{"name":"Procedia CIRP","volume":"135 ","pages":"Pages 175-180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144656591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Procedia CIRPPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2025.02.143
Raza Saeed, Tadele Belay Tuli, Michael Weikum, Martin Manns
{"title":"Towards trajectory-based latent space control for human-robot collaboration","authors":"Raza Saeed, Tadele Belay Tuli, Michael Weikum, Martin Manns","doi":"10.1016/j.procir.2025.02.143","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.procir.2025.02.143","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In manual assembly, human-robot collaboration (HRC) research activities aim to improve the manual handling of parts. For this purpose, latent space control has been investigated by several research groups. However, control problems have shown limited applicability for various frame-based latent space models. The objective of this work is to determine if positional control is principally possible for trajectory-based latent spaces. Therefore, we investigate how ‘reach’ trajectories that are constrained in the target position map to a latent space that has been derived from functional principal component analysis (fPCA). A multivariate normality test is conducted to analyze the target-constrained position in the latent space, followed by mapping between the latent and Cartesian spaces. Results show that for linear shifts in the target ‘reach’ position, Gaussian modes in the latent space move along a vector in the latent space. Additionally, Gaussian mixtures occur at the target point where different motion styles are chosen for reaching. Results suggest that positional control may prove feasible for the considered type of latent space.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20535,"journal":{"name":"Procedia CIRP","volume":"134 ","pages":"Pages 431-436"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144291043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Procedia CIRPPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2025.03.026
Maximilian Benker , Christian Zeller
{"title":"Condition monitoring of machine tool feed drives in aero engine manufacturing","authors":"Maximilian Benker , Christian Zeller","doi":"10.1016/j.procir.2025.03.026","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.procir.2025.03.026","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Condition monitoring of machine tool feed drives has long been subject of research and preliminary results have already merged into commercial software solutions offered by machine tool manufacturers and numeric control manufacturers. However, when it comes to industrial applications, the effectiveness of the results proposed in the state of the art has only been discussed insufficiently. In other words, there is a lack of testimonials from industrial users. This paper addresses this by describing an in-house developed condition monitoring system for machine tool feed drives in aero engine manufacturing. The paper shows that, if thoroughly implemented, even simple approaches from the state of the art can lead to significant cost benefits in the operation and maintenance of the used machine tools.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20535,"journal":{"name":"Procedia CIRP","volume":"134 ","pages":"Pages 121-126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144290735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Procedia CIRPPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2025.03.063
Matteo Zanovello , Tullio Tolio , Maria Chiara Magnanini
{"title":"A Knowledge Based System for Intelligent Planning of e-motors Remanufacturing Activities","authors":"Matteo Zanovello , Tullio Tolio , Maria Chiara Magnanini","doi":"10.1016/j.procir.2025.03.063","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.procir.2025.03.063","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The implementation of circular economy guidelines and new greener policies introduced by governments and agencies have underscored significant challenges in manufacturing systems fexibility. These challenges are particularly severe when considering de-remanufacturing processes, where unpredictable, product-specific variability plays a crucial role. Effiectively managing this input variability requires flexible and reconfg-urable systems that integrate both hardware and software, while meeting production standards and customer expectations. As products reach the end of their operational life and return for remanufacturing, their nominal characteristics are lost, requiring customized disassembly and remanufacturing plans tailored to the condition of each component. To address this need, this work proposes a knowledge-based system for generating activity schedules for de-remanufacturing, within the context of short-term production planning methods. A case study focused on the de-remanufacturing of electric motors is conducted to test and validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20535,"journal":{"name":"Procedia CIRP","volume":"134 ","pages":"Pages 485-490"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144290900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Procedia CIRPPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2025.02.171
Antje Fitzner , Thomas Ackermann , Melanie Lübke
{"title":"Normal Behavior Modelling for the Mixing Process in Battery Cell Production","authors":"Antje Fitzner , Thomas Ackermann , Melanie Lübke","doi":"10.1016/j.procir.2025.02.171","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.procir.2025.02.171","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The rising global demand for lithium-ion battery cells (LIBs) underscores the need for efficient production processes. Predictive maintenance (PdM) plays a crucial role by transforming data into insights, enhancing equipment reliability. Normal Behavior Modelling (NBM) enables anomaly detection, aiming to improve operational efficiency and product quality in this complex manufacturing environment.</div><div>An NBM of the extruder is developed using real production data for the electrode mixing process. The model captures the normal behavior of the machine by predicting the pressure as a measure of the system state of the machine. Identifed anomalies are highlighted and can later be used for a full PdM. The results will enhance the monitoring of the LIB production line and prevent unintended downtimes of machines.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20535,"journal":{"name":"Procedia CIRP","volume":"134 ","pages":"Pages 520-525"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144290906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Procedia CIRPPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2025.02.167
John Lindström , Petter Kyösti , Wolfgang Birk , Erik Lejon , Germar Schneider , Alf Andersson , Oskar Lindblad , Jens Eliasson , Karl Andersson
{"title":"Interoperability requirements for Zero Defect Manufacturing within Industry4.0","authors":"John Lindström , Petter Kyösti , Wolfgang Birk , Erik Lejon , Germar Schneider , Alf Andersson , Oskar Lindblad , Jens Eliasson , Karl Andersson","doi":"10.1016/j.procir.2025.02.167","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.procir.2025.02.167","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The paper addresses, based on a qualitative study comprising five companies, requirements for interoperability concerning Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) in an Industry4.0 context. The results outline a strong link between well working interoperability and achieving the benefits from ZDM efforts. Further, the results also outline the need for getting out the right data from production processes and keep high data quality supported by management attention and a clear vision. The results are aligned with existing literature and studies but bring up more details on requirements on evolving interoperability for ZDM in terms of data quality and how the analytic output can be used for decisions based on the reliability and confidence levels. In addition, the increased need for cybersecurity within ZDM is highlighted where also cybersecurity requires interoperability to function well over time.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20535,"journal":{"name":"Procedia CIRP","volume":"134 ","pages":"Pages 532-537"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144290908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Procedia CIRPPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2025.02.172
Laiyi Li , Maolin Yang , Pingyu Jiang
{"title":"Converting Relational Databases to Manufacturing Knowledge Graph for Product Quality Tracing in Additive Manufacturing","authors":"Laiyi Li , Maolin Yang , Pingyu Jiang","doi":"10.1016/j.procir.2025.02.172","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.procir.2025.02.172","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Product quality tracing (PQT) in additive manufacturing (AM) is a significant and complex challenge crucial for fully understanding the processes, tracing quality issues, and optimizing process technologies. Typically, tracing relies on production data from historical relational databases, but these data lack semantic information and integration with the service context of manufacturing processes. A manufacturing knowledge graph (MKG) offers a solution by adding manufacturing semantic information to production data. This paper constructed a PQT model and an MKG database for AM. The PQT model and the schema layer of the MKG originate from the swimlane flowchart. Subsequently, a relational database was mapped to instantiate the MKG, and the natural language model was used to complete it. This integration constructs a PQT model and an MKG database centered on manufacturing resources, events, data, and states. The tracing subgraphs extracted from the MKG database demonstrate that this method effectively traces manufacturing process issues and anomalies. The proposed method provides a viable database and method for PQT in AM, enabling comprehensive tracing of manufacturing processes, identifying quality anomalies, and providing potential cause references for AM experts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20535,"journal":{"name":"Procedia CIRP","volume":"134 ","pages":"Pages 544-549"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144290910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Procedia CIRPPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2025.02.145
Raza Saeed, Tadele Belay Tuli, Martin Manns
{"title":"Experimental setup for motion capturing two humans jointly handling an object","authors":"Raza Saeed, Tadele Belay Tuli, Martin Manns","doi":"10.1016/j.procir.2025.02.145","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.procir.2025.02.145","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In manual assembly, human motion capture is difficult. Reproducibly capturing two humans who are jointly handling a single part requires synchronization, communication between humans, and correcting deviations. This paper proposes an experimental setup to capture and analyze human motion data using an overhead light projector that dynamically and visually guides collaborating humans to initial and target positions. The experimental setup comprises full-body, hand-finger, and gaze-tracking sensors. Cyclic synchronization helps to reduce drift, correct position errors, and make the method easily reproducible and robust for collecting human motion data. The accuracy of object motion, which is handled by humans to execute a cooperative task, is assessed. Preliminary results show a promising output that can be scaled up for human-robot interactions using digital human models e.g., to evaluate collaboration actions and identify shared roles.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20535,"journal":{"name":"Procedia CIRP","volume":"134 ","pages":"Pages 401-406"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144291038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}