Scientific program | Circular - Université Grenoble Alpes

Our assumptions for designing an industrial system to remanufacture post-used products into new products are:

only an efficient, responsible and acceptable Human/Machine collaboration enables the necessary agility for those systems,
the industrial processes and their environment have to be systematically redesigned to adapt to the new inputs: the used products,
the massive deployment of the reuse-oriented processes needs specific incentives and industrial conditions.

So, the project is structured following 3 interdisciplinary workpackages (WP1, WP2, WP3) related to those 3 hypothesis and two work-packages (WP4, WP5) dedicated to the
transition toward circular industrial systems.

Workpackages

WP1 - Implementing 4.0 technolOgies in the context of the circular economy

WP1 investigates the workers and their organisation as one of the key elements of the agility of the remanufacturing productive system: Human-Machine collaboration is at the core of the new working situations.

WP2 - Diagnosis and Prognosis in relation to product circularity

WP2 focuses on the numerical solutions that could help fitting the processes depending on the numerous variabilities. The agility of the productive system will be reinforced by the capacity to manage automatically regulations or reconfigurations on the operative process.

WP3 - Performance modelling / measurement of circular industrial systems and circularity conditions

Promoting industrial circular systems needs both to secure and incite their implementation conditions. The WP3 focuses on strategies to develop for a wider adoption of such kinds of scenarios.

WP4 - Management of circular value chains at the territorial level

WP4 is a transversal workpackage dedicated to the case studies, the valorisation and the project management. The aim here is to develop decision-making tools for the management and reconfiguration of value chains.

WP5 - Supporting the transition to new circular industrial scenarios

WP5 focuses on make accessible the concept of circularity, based on the law of the circular economy and standards/tools developed specifically, to help companies implement new ways of preserving the value of a solution.