Launch of a PhD working group on circularity in production systems

Genesis of the working group 

Created on the initiative of Maxence DENU, a doctoral student in the Circular project, A working group on circularity within production systems has just been set up by doctoral students from the Circular project. The main objectives of this working group are to bring together multidisciplinary PhD students working on the circular economy within production systems to enrich research perspectives, create a sharing space for their experiences and knowledge and open up new avenues of collaboration with companies and researchers.

This working group now has 7 members working on circularity: 

• Dorian BUFFIERE: Optimising the use of batteries to extend their first and second lives and rationalise energy consumption
• Maxence DENU: Industry 4.0 technologies for circular production systems
• Tristan GAUTIER: Management of industrial relocation
• José HIDALGO: Scaling up a circular economy business model by new design, leaner remanufacturing, and automated material recycling technologies
• Walid IJASSI: Urban factories - characterization and circularity
• Paola KOUYOUMJI: Exploiting data and artificial intelligence to help SMEs make the transition to circular business models
• Christian WANDJI: The Product's State of Health as a Facilitator of Circular Economy

Roadmap creation of the working group

To benefit from the experience of their peers on the activities to be proposed within the framework of this working group, a workshop was set up to gather the opinions of the members of the laboratory on the subject. Over the course of 2 sessions, the members of Circular and the G-SCOP laboratory were invited to share their ideas on the activities that could be organised around this group of doctoral students on the theme of circularity. 

Following these discussions, three proposals were adopted: 
•    Setting up ‘circular lunchtimes’: offering research seminars on circularity by inviting a manufacturer or researcher to discuss their activities concerning production systems and circularity. 
•    Set up (post) doctoral days: to enable doctoral and post-doctoral students from different laboratories to meet and discuss their research themes to develop new proposals.
•    Launch a newsletter to provide relevant content on the circular economy in production systems and announce the working group's forthcoming events.

Contact

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