Paper voor TRA2024
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What will a shopping street look like in 2025, when online shopping continues to show double-digit growth? And what will 3D printing do to factories and logistic companies, when we can ‘print’ more and more products at home or around the corner?The digital economy is one of the most pervasive game changers in cities. It creates and destroys, and affects the way cities function in many ways. But what is exactly the digital economy about? How big is it? Which types of transformation is it provoking in urban economies? And, importantly, what can local governments do to cope with the digital transition and foster sustainable urban development?
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The short-term aim of this R&D project (financed by the Centre of Expertise Creative Industries) is to develop a virtually simulated textile database that renders 3D visual representations of these fabrics. The idea is for this database to be open source and be able to interface with 3D design applications such as those of Lectra. The textile database will include a number of different digital datasets per textile that contain information about the fabric’s drape, weight, flexibility etc., to virtually render prototypes in a 3D simulated environment. As such, in building garments via a 3D software design application, designers will be able to see how a garment changes as new textiles are applied, and how textiles behave when constructed as different garments. This will take place on 3D avatars, which may be bespoke body scans, and will allow for coordinated and precise fitting and grading.
The Northern Netherlands (NN) finds itself at the junction of all the big transitions. Digitalisation is essential to follow through with these. Considering this, our region has the potential to make sizeable progress if it can successfully roll out widespread digitalisation. As a hardcore transition economy, the NN may even join the European frontrunners and act as an example for other regions. It is from this challenge that the NN will start with the European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH NN). We have chosen to specialise in the area of Autonomous Systems, which includes multiple digital technologies that are relevant for the four transitions in the NN: (1) Smart Agro, (2) Smart Manufacturing, (3) Life Science and Health and (4) Utilities, Built Environment and Mobility. In the first three-year EDIH NN wants to support more than 750 companies and lay the foundation for long-term support of all companies. The following building blocks for EDIH NN are: • A Brokerage network that will identify issues regarding digitalisation and relay these to Solution Providers (high TRL) and knowledge providers (low TRL). • A Test Before Invest network (test and demo facilities) comprising 20+ organisations that will invest in Autonomous Systems within their domain, and collaborate towards becoming a European testing ground. • A Smart Factory Accelerator to strengthen the digital maturity of companies. • An Empowerment programme to strengthen companies in the areas of DEP Technologies: Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence. • An approach based on High Performance Computing to make digitalisation more accessible. • The Smart Makers Academy: A programme aimed at matching supply and demand around digital skills, based on individual learning outcomes. • A Funding Readiness programme to help companies that need to invest for their digitalisation strategy, in finding funding opportunities. • A network to stimulate supply and demand around Autonomous Systems
Het Future Factory consortium, waar lectoraat Nieuwe Energie in de Stad onderdeel van is, bestaat uit ervaren partijen die zich realiseren dat de 200.000 woningrenovaties per jaar die in het klimaatakkoord beoogt worden een enorme innovatie opgave met zich mee brengt. Het consortium bevat de meest succesvolle producenten/leveranciers van diepe renovatie proposities in Nederland, die weten wat het betekent om te industrialiseren en te digitaliseren. Doel Het doel van de Future Factory is jaarlijks (vanaf 2025) 25.000 renovaties leveren die passen op 40% van woningen in Nederland. De renovatie proposities zijn zowel voor de particuliere eigenaren als verhuurders beschikbaar via op hen afgestemde lever- en saleskanalen. De renovatie behelst een combinatie van betaalbare isolatiesystemen en fossielvrije energiesystemen. Resultaten Creëren van tenminste twee productiefaciliteiten, binnen beoogde looptijd van 5 jaar, voor de productie van renovatiepakketten voor ca. 5.000 woningrenovaties per jaar; met significante verbeteringen in kwaliteit en kostprijs. Ontwikkelen van een productiefaciliteit voor het produceren van dak en gevelelementen met daarin geïntegreerde energiesystemen met een capaciteit van 25.000 woningrenovaties per jaar, voor woningen die typologisch veel voorkomen (ca. 3,5 miljoen woningen in Nederland). Er zal bijgedragen worden aan het verbeteren van marktcondities, zodat consumenten een aantrekkelijk product krijgen welke ze via begrijpelijke en aantrekkelijke verkoopkanalen kunnen aanschaffen, binnen passende regelgevende kaders. Looptijd 01 januari 2020 - 31 januari 2024 Aanpak Het consortium ontwikkelt vanuit een programmatische aanpak de Future Factory, waar het lectoraat onderzoek doet voor de partners ten behoeve van het behalen van de doelstellingen. Met onze ruime ervaring ontwikkelen wij samen met de bedrijven integrale totaaloplossingen en bouwdelen voor de renovatiemarkt. We maken hierbij gebruik van onze expertise op het gebied van: Installatietechniek Bouwkunde Productie en uitvoeringstechniek ICT De Utrechtse aanpak De Hogeschool Utrecht experimenteert hier met een verdere doorontwikkeling van het interdisciplinair onderwijs. In het bijzonder zal Embedded Design Research (EDR) worden onderzocht om de verbinding concreet te maken tussen onderwijs, onderzoek en bedrijfsleven op de thema’s van Future Factory. EDR houdt concreet in dat onderzoekers en studenten samen bij bedrijven participeren in het creëren van oplossingen/inzichten. Studenten en onderzoekers haken in op lopende ontwikkelingen (R&D) van bedrijven binnen Future Factory. Hierdoor blijft het onderzoek en onderwijs niet theoretisch, maar worden de resultaten praktisch toepasbaar voor bedrijven. Dit heeft een duidelijke relatie met de missie van het hbo (en mbo) om meer praktijkgericht onderzoek uit te voeren. Onderwijsvormen die gekoppeld worden zijn bijvoorbeeld: integrale projectgroepen, stage, minors en afstuderen. Hierin wordt onderscheid gemaakt in ontwerpen en uitvoeren.
Manual labour is an important cornerstone in manufacturing and considering human factors and ergonomics is a crucial field of action from both social and economic perspective. Diverse approaches are available in research and practice, ranging from guidelines, ergonomic assessment sheets over to digitally supported workplace design or hardware oriented support technologies like exoskeletons. However, in the end those technologies, methods and tools put the working task in focus and just aim to make manufacturing “less bad” with reducing ergonomic loads as much as possible. The proposed project “Human Centered Smart Factories: design for wellbeing for future manufacturing” wants to overcome this conventional paradigm and considers a more proactive and future oriented perspective. The underlying vision of the project is a workplace design for wellbeing that makes labor intensive manufacturing not just less bad but aims to provide positive contributions to physiological and mental health of workers. This shall be achieved through a human centered technology approach and utilizing advanced opportunities of smart industry technologies and methods within a cyber physical system setup. Finally, the goal is to develop smart, shape-changing workstations that self-adapt to the unique and personal, physical and cognitive needs of a worker. The workstations are responsive, they interact in real time, and promote dynamic activities and varying physical exertion through understanding the context of work. Consequently, the project follows a clear interdisciplinary approach and brings together disciplines like production engineering, human interaction design, creative design techniques and social impact assessment. Developments take place in an industrial scale test bed at the University of Twente but also within an industrial manufacturing factory. Through the human centered design of adaptive workplaces, the project contributes to a more inclusive and healthier society. This has also positive effects from both national (e.g. relieve of health system) as well as individual company perspective (e.g. less costs due to worker illness, higher motivation and productivity). Even more, the proposal offers new business opportunities through selling products and/or services related to the developed approach. To tap those potentials, an appropriate utilization of the results is a key concern . The involved manufacturing company van Raam will be the prototypical implementation partner and serve as critical proof of concept partner. Given their openness, connections and broad range of processes they are also an ideal role model for further manufacturing companies. ErgoS and Ergo Design are involved as methodological/technological partners that deal with industrial engineering and ergonomic design of workplace on a daily base. Thus, they are crucial to critically reflect wider applicability and innovativeness of the developed solutions. Both companies also serve as multiplicator while utilizing promising technologies and methods in their work. Universities and universities of applied sciences utilize results through scientific publications and as base for further research. They also ensure the transfer to education as an important leverage to inspire and train future engineers towards wellbeing design of workplaces.
