TECOSIM lecture on the use of digital twins for sustainable car manufacture
The two conferences, Smart Production: Digitalizing Automotive Manufacturing and Sustainability in Production and Product Engineering, are taking place in Bad Nauheim on 28 and 29 November 2023. Invited by the event organiser Automotive Circle, experts from all over the world will be gathering to discuss automotive production digitisation and sustainability in product development and production processes.
At 4 p.m. on the first day of the combined event, Dr Robert Dannecker, Technical Manager at TECOSIM, will be giving a lecture entitled Digital twin 4 circularity: closing the loop from virtual product development to disassembly and beyond. The lecture examines the use of digital twins to close the loop from virtual product development through to automated disassembly and beyond. Following his lecture, he will be available to answer questions from conference attendees during a meet-the-speaker session in the foyer.
Digital twins for disassembly, repair and recycling
Data largely already known from virtual product development is required for automating disassembly. Disassembly, repair and recycling are already taken into account when the digital twin for disassembly is created during the CAE-based virtual product development process. What’s more, the engineers are able to incorporate sustainability into the product right from the development stage by integrating material- and component-related sustainability information.
The digital twin can form the basis for controlling robots which carry out a more thorough disassembly of old vehicles and sorting of different recycling materials from them. Data from the disassembly and sorting process may affect the requirements for the digital disassembly twin. This closes the circular economy loop in terms of data too.
Conferences on digitisation and sustainability in automotive production
The two Automotive Circle conferences, Smart Production – Digitalizing Automotive Manufacturing and Sustainability in Production and Product Engineering, are both taking place at the same time in Bad Nauheim on 28 and 29 November. The Smart Production conference focuses on digitisation solutions and their implementation and solutions for efficient data management throughout the entire automotive production chain. The overriding goal in the sector is not only to create networked vehicles but also comprehensive digital manufacturing structures which considerably increase production and resource efficiency while also managing costs, complexity and scalability.
At the Sustainability in Production and Product Engineering conference, OEM, supplier and academic experts will be discussing concepts, advances and obstacles on the path to achieving fully sustainable automotive production. One great challenge for the automotive industry is adapting product development and production processes in such a way that they attain sustainable, climate-neutral automotive production.
More on both events:
Smart Production ➡️
Sustainability in Production and Product Engineering➡️
