THrough life Energy and Resource Modelling (THERM)

我们将开发一种建模工具，帮助合作者和其他制造商：1.了解我们当前的制造系统及其可持续性能水平；2.(从战术数据库中)对要改进的潜在策略和技术进行建模；3.选择适当的策略；4.实施策略和技术并监控进度。我们将使用建模工具来支持我们设施和合作者的改进，然后评估工具的效用，改进它们，并将其提供给其他制造商。我们将向更广泛的制造业社区解释结果和学习。该工具必须在多个级别上运行：例如，流程、设施、本地环境、产品、供应链、产品供应和业务模式。该工具将能够模拟现有的已知策略(例如将一个过程的废能用于另一个过程)以及潜在的未来策略(从摇篮到摇篮、工业生态、本地化)。该工具将寻求在可能的情况下整合现有的工具(如制造模拟和建筑能源模型)，尽管这些工具目前显然不支持工业系统的材料、能源和废物的综合模型。例如，能量通常可以作为输出，但其介质(例如，蒸汽与运动、电力)以及其时机和位置(例如，在最终清洁区域开始轮班时)对于在其他地方使用该能量的能力至关重要，而当前的建模工具不支持这一点。我们的开发合作伙伴是当前工具的供应商，对扩展它们的功能非常感兴趣

We will develop a modelling tool that will assist the collaborators and other manufacturers in: 1. Understanding our current manufacturing system and its level of sustainability performance,2. Modelling potential tactics and technologies to improve (from a database of tactics), 3. Selecting appropriate tactics, &4. Implementing tactics and technologies and monitoring progress.We will use the modelling tool to support improvement in our facilites and in collaborators, then assess the utility of the tools, improve them and make them available to other manufacturers. We will explain the results and learning to the wider manufacturing community. The tool must work at a number of levels: e.g. process, facility, local context, product, supply chain, offering & business model. The tool will be capable of modelling existing, known tactics (such as using waste energy from one process for another process) as well as potential future tactics (cradle-to-cradle, industrial ecology, localisation). The tool will seek to integrate existing tools where possible (such as manufacturing simulation and building energy modelling), though it is clear that such tools do not currently support an integrated model of material, energy and waste for an industrial system. For example, energy is often available as an output, but its media (e.g. steam vs motion vs electricity) and its timing and its location (e.g. at start of shift in the final cleaning area) are critical to the ability to use that energy elsewhere and current modelling tools do not support this. Our exploitation partner is a vendor of current tools with a vital interest in expanding their capabilities