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-oflife
closed-loop plastic material flow for automotive lighting applications: A digital disassembly twin
generates online adaptive disassembly plans from 3D data and uses them to derive disassembly decisions
that comply with CEKPIs in RStrategies (Repair/Reuse/Remanufacture/Recycling). This enables closedloop
quality, sort-pure PC and non-PC plastic material flows at industrial throughput. Validation is carried
out 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-type
presorting 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 combine
ecological (e.g., MCI, CI) and economic evaluations of the R principles of reuse, repair, and
remanufacturing in digital twins. The goal is to optimize industrial circular systems for mechatronic
components and transfer the knowledge to scalable business models for industries such as electronics and
energy.