Loopcycle - DS Smith Collaboration: Project Infinity

Loopcycle - DS Smith 合作：Project Infinity

• 批准号: 77947
• 金额: $ 23.5万
• 依托单位: LOOP INFINITY LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=77947
• 关键词: Loopcycle; DS; Smith; Collaboration; Project

Covid-19 has added further barriers to circular resource use by contracting global supply chains -- particularly those for high quality recyclable materials. With mounting global pressure for a green recovery, the challenge is for governments and organisations to cement circular business models within supply chains, improving their capacity for growth and resilience.However, for this to happen, organisations must be able to:* Manage used resources in a way that delivers clearly measurable circular value;* Effectively feed used resources back into their existing supply chains; and* Scale eco-designed products to significantly reduce overall raw material dependence.Loopcycle aims to re-strengthen value exchanges for used resources through an AI based B2B platform that enables them to be accurately recirculated between organisations from one use to the next. This exchange -- known as a Cycle -- is captured in a secure material ledger which embeds both traceability and security.Through a collaborative partnership with DS Smith, Loopcycle will develop an experimental Platform as a Service (PaaS) model that will allow DS Smith to trace the flow of corrugated cardboard through their supply chain. By automatically drawing product and supply chain data from a number of data-points within the Loop, the platform will use AI and machine learning to determine where losses in the system occur, and will determine the percentage of closed-loop cardboard present in each packaging line. This will enable DS Smith to provide external assurance to their clients in the form of more granular and circular metrics and, by doing so, positively contribute to the delivery of their circular goals.For Loopcycle, this project will define the optimum conditions for success through which Loopcycle can be configured and commercialised to scale the development of circular systems en masse within identified markets to drive a greener, circular post-Covid recovery.

新冠肺炎通过收缩全球供应链--尤其是高质量可回收材料的供应链--进一步增加了循环利用资源的障碍。随着全球要求绿色复苏的压力越来越大，政府和组织面临的挑战是在供应链中巩固循环商业模式，提高其增长和弹性的能力。然而，要做到这一点，组织必须能够：*以提供明显可衡量的循环价值的方式管理使用的资源；*有效地将使用的资源反馈到现有的供应链；以及*扩展生态设计的产品，以显著降低对原材料的总体依赖。LoopCycle旨在通过基于人工智能的B2B平台重新加强使用资源的价值交换，使它们能够在组织之间从一个使用准确地再循环。通过与DS Smith的合作伙伴关系，LoopCycle将开发一种实验平台即服务(PaaS)模型，使DS Smith能够跟踪瓦楞纸板在其供应链中的流动。通过自动从Loop内的多个数据点提取产品和供应链数据，该平台将使用人工智能和机器学习来确定系统中发生损失的位置，并将确定每条包装线中存在的闭环纸板的百分比。这将使DS Smith能够以更细粒度和更循环的指标的形式向他们的客户提供外部保证，并通过这样做，为他们的循环目标的交付做出积极贡献。对于LoopCycle，该项目将定义成功的最佳条件，通过该条件可以配置LoopCycle并将其商业化，以在已确定的市场内大规模扩展循环系统的开发，以推动更绿色、更循环的后冰冻恢复。