Use Cases

AUTO-TWIN is agnostic and domain independent. To show this, it will demonstrate its solutions in 3 different use cases (circular economy value chains), with different characteristics .

1. Battery Cloud Platform | State-of-Health

This use case will be based on 20 batteries that will be sensorised and traced within real life applications. Thanks to AUTO-TWIN Common Data Base and IoT connectivity, the batteries can be tracked and traced wherever they are located by real state-of-health. As a consequence, data transparency and more agile processes can be considered throughout the whole product lifecycle.

The use case focuses on the demonstration of the battery online cloud platform in an operational environment at process line level.

100 additional used batteries will be analysed including data and information collection to create large scenarios for use case evaluations.

2. PET Endless Recycling

This use-case will focus on the digitalisation of the engineering value chain, from early design to detailed engineering phases, specialising in the implementation and checking of the plant automation software for the operation of the Reactive Units.

Reactive Units and other relevant equipment will be sensorised to collect data logs from the material flows thus enabling the automated generation of the plant DT.

3. Sterilisation Process - Health Sector

The Use Case will exploit the availability of historical tracking data of the whole sterilization process to train auto- twins of the system from the beginning of the project.

Decision-making models will then be created to process the input data, making suggestions on: Life estimation of the medical device using AI tools.

  • Deciding the next phase of the medical device cycle (reuse, refurbish, remanufacture, recycle).

  • Scheduling of work on equipment throughout the process.

  • Scheduling of instrument maintenance according to the life cycle.

The health care sector is responsible for 4.6% of global greenhouse gas emissions and approximately the same proportion of pollutant air emissions, this values are steadily increasing.

The Single-Use Disposables (SUDs) which are used in the health sector become infectious disposable wastes after their use, and medical devices that need to be sterilised before refurbishment and reprocessing.