Review · 20–21 February 2024 · Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld
Symposium 2024
Megatrends and future markets for a sustainable revolution.
Five years after the first on-site symposium the community met again on campus – with a special focus on artificial intelligence in remanufacturing: automated quality inspection, predictive maintenance, automated disassembly and assembly, data-driven decisions and human-robot collaboration. Rolf Steinhilper, pioneer of remanufacturing technology, welcomed participants to the challenges in remanufacturing.
In numbers
- 2days on campus, 20 and 21 February 2024
- 13talks and a panel discussion
- 2lab tours with live demonstrations
- 80+participants
Key topics
Digitisation
Digital product passport, data spaces and cyber-physical systems in the edge-cloud continuum.
Reman as a business model
Core management as a service and the remanufacturing of industrial robots.
Robotics and automation
Adaptive robotics, laser processes and automated disassembly of EV battery packs.
Eco-design and regulation
Eco-design or design for remanufacturing – and the future strategy of the industry.
Programme
20 February 2024
- Lunch
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Vette-Steinkamp, Trier University of Applied Sciences: Welcome to Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Steinhilper, Bayreuth, pioneer of remanufacturing technology: Welcome to the challenges in remanufacturing
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carsten Bücker, represented by Fernand Weiland: Remanufacturing – the ultimate element of the circular economy
- Mike Hague-Morgan, Autocraft Solutions Group: Remanufacturing automotive lithium-ion battery packs
- Lars Schaupeter, Trier University of Applied Sciences: The product passport for remanufacturing – advantages and applications
- Coffee break and exhibition
- Xavier Kohll, Circu Li-Ion: Challenges and opportunities for automated disassembly of EV battery packs
- Dr. Michael Klos, Yaskawa Europe: New adaptive robotics for recycling and remanufacturing
- Coffee break and exhibition
- Lab tour – live demonstrations: battery corner and robots for remanufacturing
- Welcome drink
- Dinner on campus
21 February 2024
- Fernand Weiland, FJW Consulting, and Adrien Delimoy, Car Parts Industries / Borg Automotive: Eco-design or design for remanufacturing
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Guido Dartmann, Trier University of Applied Sciences: Cyber-physical systems within the edge-cloud continuum
- Markus Wagner, Circular Economy Solutions: Core-management-as-a-service – reverse logistics enables remanufacturing
- Coffee break and exhibition
- Patrick Waltmans, IRS Robotics: Remanufacturing of industrial robots – an insight into ongoing processes
- Max Rettenmeier, TRUMPF Laser- und Systemtechnik: Laser applications in battery recycling and remanufacturing
- Short break
- Panel discussion led by Fernand Weiland with Winifred Ijomah, Hanno Großeschmidt and Søren Toft-Jensen: Future strategy for remanufacturing
- Florian Mohr, Fujitsu: How data spaces enable inter-organisational production management
- Lunch
- Lab tour – live demonstrations: additive manufacturing and hydrogen fuel cells
- End
Programme as PDF (3 pages, 2.8 MB)
Panel
Future strategy for remanufacturing
The final panel, led by Fernand Weiland with Prof. Winifred Ijomah, Hanno Großeschmidt and Søren Toft-Jensen, asked: Should remanufacturers align themselves with the new technologies of electric vehicles? Does remanufacturing need more automation and artificial intelligence? Will original manufacturers dominate the remanufacturing market? And what support can be expected from legislators and academia?
Impressions
