SFB 1574: A Circular Factory for the Perpetual Product

SFB“循环工厂”旨在实现工业规模的综合线性和循环生产。它的目标是将使用过的产品变成新一代的产品，更接近永久产品的愿景。将资源消耗与经济扩张脱钩的创新经济制度对于实现可持续经济增长至关重要。传统的“获取-制造-利用-处置”的线性经济方法不是一个长期的解决方案，而循环生产方案提供了一个替代方案。然而，大规模循环生产对制造公司来说是一个挑战，因为目前的方法需要手工劳动，而且只能小批量生产，主要是在低工资国家。为了更多地采用循环办法，这些办法必须在经济上更适合有关经济部门。使用过的产品物质的永久利用可能实际上是不可行的，但是这种永久产品的愿景与“零缺陷”的全面质量管理目标相当，并定义了一个明确的愿望。拟议的SFB计划将探讨不同领域的科学问题，包括生产科学、产品开发、材料科学、人为因素、机器人技术、计算机科学和知识建模。这些问题包括从独特的二手产品中生成新产品，管理多维不确定性，从人类那里学习复杂的问题解决策略并将其转移到自动化生产资源中，在高度可变的自主生产系统中实现自动化，以及使用统一的语义建模和结果数据和信息来生成决策支持的知识。SFB分为三个项目区域：A区负责设计、建模和控制作为一个完整系统的循环工厂，通过高度互联的产品-生产-协同设计。区域B侧重于捕获和建模独特的产品实例和在对象交互中捕获人类的多模态。最后，C区旨在实现自主可变的生产系统。在第一个资助期结束后，计划在实验室规模上开发和建立循环工厂。

The SFB "Circular Factory" aims to enable integrated linear and circular production on an industrial scale. Its goal is to turn used products into new product generations, moving closer to the vision of a perpetual product. Innovative economic systems that decouple resource consumption from economic expansion are essential for achieving sustainable economic growth. The traditional linear economic approach of “take-make-use-dispose” is not a long-term solution, and circular production schemes provide an alternative. However, large-scale circular production is challenging for manufacturing companies, as current approaches require manual labour and only take place in small batches, mainly in low-wage countries. To increase the adoption of circular approaches, they must become more economically viable for relevant economic sectors. The eternal utilisation of used product substance may not be practically feasible, but this vision of a perpetual product is comparable to the Total Quality Management goal for "Zero Defects" and defines a clear aspiration. The proposed SFB project will explore scientific questions from various fields, including production science, product development, material science, human factors, robotics, computer science, and knowledge modelling. These questions involve generating new products from unique used products, managing multi-dimensional uncertainties, learning complex problem-solving strategies from humans and transferring them to automated production resources, implementing automation in a highly changeable, autonomous production system, and using uniform semantic modelling and resulting data and information to generate knowledge for decision support. The SFB is divided into three project areas: Area A is responsible for designing, modelling, and controlling the circular factory as a complete system through a highly interconnected product-production-co-design. Area B focuses on capturing and modelling the unique product instance and multimodal capturing of humans in object interactions. Finally, Area C aims to implement the autonomous and changeable production system. The development and setup of the circular factory on a laboratory scale is planned after the first funding period ends.