CIRCMAN5.0

Circular Manufacturing 5.0: Human-Centred AI-aided Digital Framework for Closed-loop Photovoltaic (PV) products Value Chains

CIRCMAN5.0 combines advanced industry 4.0 technologies with humancentric design principles to assess and demonstrate how waste reduction and optimization of raw material in the Photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing industry can be feasible and profitable while significantly reducing the environmental impact.

CIRCMAN5.0 delivers a Human-Centred AI-aided Framework entailing: (I) AI-driven modelling and circular-by-design simulation techniques for product design; (II) ML algorithms for dynamic production process reconfiguration; (III) A Cognitive Digital Twin environment supported by AAS models for testing and verification of manufacturing processes for efficient resource utilisation, waste management etc; (III) A Circularity and Life Cycle Assessment Framework to help with comprehensive evaluation of the sustainability aspects of products and processes using data/feedback from AI-based process optimisation; (IV) The Human-in-the-Loop Recommendation Engine to provide actionable and explainable recovery strategies for EoL products; (V) The Digital Product/Material Passport enabled by Distributed Ledger Technology enabling secure and trustworthy information sharing.

The framework is tested in 4 PV manufacturing industries providing different type of products.