Material Passport: A digital platform for manufacturing industry to implement Circular Production Systems
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| Coordinator | KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HÖGSKOLAN - INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 499 300 |
| Project duration | June 2019 - December 2019 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | The strategic innovation programme for Production2030 |
Important results from the project
The project has laid a foundation to develop a digital platform that can enable generating material passports to facilitate implementation of circular production systems. The research review and benchmarking of commercial solutions contributed to understand the current knowledge-base in materials passports, in terms of available platforms, their applicability and limitations. Through case product mapping in terms of major value chain actors and compliance needs, a set of requirement specifications is developed with a platform development plan and a basic prototype.
Expected long term effects
The project identified that the existing knowledge-base is insufficient and the existing commercial solutions have many lacking to support the concept of material passports. These findings are essential for the development of the digital platform, which in long run can support in high value recovery from products/materials and ease the process of product compliance. This will increase transparency among value chain actors as well as support companies to become more sustainable. The digital platform has the potential to become a commercial solution as well.
Approach and implementation
The project is a collaboration between KTH, Mälardalan Högskola, Dometic Group AB, Signifikant Svenska AB and CirBES AB. The consortium is formed with the expertise needed for the success of the project. KTH and MDH provided R&D support, where Signifikant and CirBES had the role of assessing the platform development potential. Dometic provided the case study, added the perspectives of the manufacturer and suppliers to some extent. The activities in the project was run in parallel, helping the team to work individually on each sub-activity with regular follow up.