Driving collaboration and innovation in manufacturing
Global innovation network Crowdhelix has launched the Manufacturing Helix, an online digital community focusing on manufacturing engineering, remanufacturing, industrial digital twins, advanced production and process technologies. A key achievement of the EU-funded CREDIT project, the Manufacturing Helix promotes sustainable manufacturing and reduces the industry’s environmental impact by facilitating circular remanufacturing of components and products. The Manufacturing Helix plays an important role in ensuring that CREDIT project results are effectively disseminated and exploited. Since its launch in January 2024, CREDIT has set out to tackle the challenges facing the widespread implementation of remanufacturing, a promising green solution that involves rebuilding a product to original specifications using a combination of reused, repaired and new parts. “Self-sufficiency and circularity have become essential for a sustainable and prosperous European manufacturing industry, reinforcing the need for a shift towards renewable and resilient industrial practices,” remarks R&D engineer Lidia Parilla Benitez of CREDIT project coordinator Idener, Spain, in an ‘MSN’ news item. To this end, CREDIT has adopted a human-centred approach that focuses on digitalising assets, using multilayered digital twins and developing open source-based distributed information and communication technology platforms. It also entails using AI-based support systems to improve tracking, predictive maintenance, quality control and support tools for remanufacturing operations. Through its innovative human-centred approach, CREDIT will strive to improve circularity and recycling. The goal is to help shape a European manufacturing industry that is sustainable, more efficient and socially responsible.
Bringing great minds together
According to Crowdhelix’s CEO and founder Michael Browne, bringing experts from different fields and value chains into the Manufacturing Helix community would help speed up development and adoption of transformative technologies. CREDIT therefore invites researchers, academics, industry experts, regulatory professionals and citizen interest groups to join the Manufacturing Helix with a view to enhancing collaboration and innovation in manufacturing. Building a strong community of like-minded stakeholders helps to enhance “the project’s impact and ensure its future sustainability.” “We created the Manufacturing Helix to serve as a hub where specialists can participate in collaborative international research projects across a wide range of manufacturing areas, including engineering, remanufacturing, factories of the future, nano-fabrication, materials processing, as well as digitisation and AI-application in manufacturing,” explains Browne. The CREDIT (Circularity and Remanufacturing-Enabling DIgital Twins) project runs through to December 2027. For more information, please see: CREDIT project website
Keywords
CREDIT, manufacturing, remanufacturing, industry, circularity, sustainable manufacturing, community, digital twin
