Systemic Design of Circular Ecosystems in the Automotive Industry to Optimize the End-of-Life Value Creation of Lighting and Electronics Products

KOLLEKT is conducting the first-ever research into a data room and sensor-supported, robot-based end-oflifeclosed-loop plastic material flow for automotive lighting applications: A digital disassembly twingenerates online adaptive disassembly plans from 3D data and uses them to derive disassembly decisionsthat comply with CEKPIs in RStrategies (Repair/Reuse/Remanufacture/Recycling). This enables closedloopquality, sort-pure PC and non-PC plastic material flows at industrial throughput. Validation is carriedout on headlights and can be parametrically transferred to other consumer product classes.The goal of the HNI subproject is to develop an automated disassembly recycling process for single-typepresorting with a digital disassembly product twin and an intelligent process flow model.The goal of the NIWI subproject is to develop integrated data-based value creation models that combineecological (e.g., MCI, CI) and economic evaluations of the R principles of reuse, repair, andremanufacturing in digital twins. The goal is to optimize industrial circular systems for mechatroniccomponents and transfer the knowledge to scalable business models for industries such as electronics andenergy.