(ref. BAP-2022-776)
Laatst aangepast :
28/10/2022
The KU Leuven research group on Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) of the Department of Mechanical Engineering has, in close cooperation with their industrial partners, acquired significant experience in re- and demanufacturing, or in other words the dismantling of products into their components or composing materials for the purpose of rework, reuse, repair, repurposing, remanufacturing and recycling. The KU Leuven has recently established the Re- and Demanufacturing Lab in Heverlee to support these research activities. The ten-headed team working in this lab has in the framework of various national and international projects developed and installed various setups in this lab with state-of-the-art automation, spectroscopic and computer vision equipment for material characterization, robotic sorting and robotic disassembly or dismantling. The group’s ambition is to further develop its lab and infrastructure, together with the related software and expertise in this field. This to support system integrators, original equipment manufacturers and reuse, repair, remanufacturing and recycling companies in the development of the next generation of products and processes for a circular economy.
Project
The envisaged research will be part of the European ERA-MIN Scandere project: Scaling up a circular economy business model by new design, leaner remanufacturing, and automated material recycling technologies. In this project KU Leuven collaborates with 6 other European partners: Linkopin Univeristy Sweden, Elektrorecycling Poland, Compliance and Risks Executive Management Ireland, Pozan University of Technology Poland, Institute Polytechnique de Grenoble France and BSH (Bosh Siemens) Germany. In this project, KU Leuven leads the activities on Product as a Service business models and offerings and design for robotic demanufacturing. These activities will be carried out within a multidisciplinary and multinational/multicultural team of researchers at KU Leuven, in which competences are already available for, amongst others Product as a Service business models and offerings. Therefore, we are looking for a new colleague to complement this team with the objective to investigate product and process designs to facilitate robotic demanufacturing, including the identification, disassembly and components sorting and testing. For this both the development of novel methods to assess the ease of robotic demanufacturing (in analogy with the eDIM method developed by KUL in prior research), as well as novel product and process designs is envisaged. The ultimate goal is to demonstrate how novel product designs can increase the robustness and efficiency of robotic demanufacturing processes with the robotic setups available in the re- and demanufacturing lab.
Therefore, in the context of the Scandere project:
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For more information contact Prof. Dr. Jef Peeters, tel.: +32 16 32 25 69, mail: jef.peeters@kuleuven.be.
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