Implementation

Identified Use Cases 

1. Metal Office manufactures bespoke office storage furniture ( lockers, document tambours etc.), using cutting and welding machines, compressors, presses and spray paint booths during working hours. Metal Office is looking to add to its existing rooftop solar PV. Steering the production process according to solar generation has huge potential. For example, some production processes can be started automatically on weekends during sunshine hours to reduce grid-energy consumption, decrease carbon impact and enhance competitiveness.
2. TEC Eurolab already demonstrates a sustainability commitment with its existing rooftop solar panels. With this project, TEC Eurolab will take their sustainability efforts to the next level. The system's finely grained real-time energy measurements and AI prediction models will enable the facility to adapt its most energy-consuming equipment to solar generation to reduce carbon emissions and cut costs.
3. Diversey will install sensors in the Enschede factory to measure when & which machine/process consumes how much, and model the potential solar generation extrapolated from the data of TEC Eurolab and Metal Office. Diversey will benefit from potential cost savings from solar investment in general and specifically from adjusting production to boost self consumption, plus from AI-supported energy savings in ordinary day to day business. Enormous potential for sustainability for Enschede and across Diversey's 10+ factories and 24 warehouses in Europe.

Deliverables

1. Aggregated Use Case analysis document - The report of this deliverable (a technical document) will contain explanations of all technical and functional requirements related to the use cases. It will formalize (also by means of cross- functional diagrams) the information flows inherent in the data and the minimum information that must be made available to users to support project activities.
2. Plan for dissemination and exploitation including communication activities deliverable - Plan for dissemination and exploitation including communication activities.
3. Commercialization and Marketing plan - The marketing and commercialisation plan will be developed by the Business Owner and validated by the consortium partners together with the signing of the intellectual property agreement (background, foreground, sideground and postground). The marketing and commercialisation strategy will specify the following key elements: 1. target market, 2. value proposition and product messaging, 3. pricing strategy and 4. distribution plan. Specific commercial agreements could be signed between the project partners to sell the solution in specific geographical areas.
4. Gender equality plan - Gender equality plan as for the partners of the Consortium being public or private research organizations or higher education establishment.
5. Validation document of the MVP - Mid-Term MVP (Minimum Viable Product at a middle stage of readiness) tested and ready for the following phase of enhancement and eventual rework. The first version of the AI software developed during the project about the first tests on the end users' use case. This step will also be useful to see if a modification of the project plan is needed.
6. Sustainability report - A sustainability report for the developed solution would provide an overview of the social, economic, and environmental impacts of the solution. It would outline the measures taken to minimize negative impacts and maximize positive ones in all aspects of the solution's life cycle, from development to end-of-life. This is the document to be signed by the BO and EIT-M and containing the agreements regarding financial sustainability (revenue generated from the economic exploitation and commercialization of the product/service at the end of the project).
7. IPR Document of the project - This document will specify all rules of engagement (e.g., background and foreground management) among project partners and will allow the Business Owner to operate in the marketplace.
8. Publishable summary of achievements to be used as dissemination material by EIT Manufacturing - Description of the activities executed for communication, dissemination and exploitation
9. Final validation deliverable - Final validation deliverable. This deliverable will include the conclusions of a final platform validation by the end users in the real scenarios, assessing and demonstrating, among the other things, the reached TRL of the project. This involves the execution of a technical assessment in a the end user facilities, in which to deploy a final version of the system.
10. Result Report - Final deliverable in charge of the activity leader, highlighting achieved results (Project KPIs, Education KPIs), history of the activity, workplan, etc