The “ProAc­tive Desi­gn for Sus­tai­na­bi­li­ty” (PADS) indus­trial Chair is a col­la­bo­ra­tion bet­ween three players: PTC, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­no­lo­gy of Com­piègne (UTC) and the ECAM LaSalle engi­nee­ring school. The main objec­tive is to inte­grate sus­tai­nable deve­lop­ment issues and envi­ron­men­tal impact mana­ge­ment from the very begin­ning of the desi­gn process.

Presentation

Key­words: Eco-desi­gn, Sus­tai­na­bi­li­ty, Cir­cu­la­ri­ty, Digi­tal Twin, Com­pu­ter-Aided Desi­gn (CAD), Pro­duct Life­cycle Mana­ge­ment (PLM), Know­ledge Mana­ge­ment, Life Cycle Assess­ment (LCA)

Chair lea­ders and holders:

• Prof. Mur­vin Bood­hoo: Direc­tor of the Solu­tions Consul­ting Depart­ment at PTC
• Prof . Benoît Eynard: Head of an indus­trial engi­nee­ring research team at the Rober­val Labo­ra­to­ry – Mecha­nics, Ener­gy and Elec­tri­ci­ty – at UTC-Compiegne
• Ber­trand Mar­con­net: Lec­tu­rer-cum-research scien­tist in indus­trial engi­nee­ring at ECAM LaSalle

Objectives

This aca­de­mic Chair aims to deve­lop metho­do­lo­gies and tech­no­lo­gies to pro­mote proac­tive eco-desi­gn. This includes anti­ci­pa­ting envi­ron­men­tal impacts from the ear­liest stages of desi­gn, taking into account envi­ron­men­tal stan­dards and direc­tives (ISO 14000, RoHS, REACH, etc.) in requi­re­ments engi­nee­ring and respon­ding to indus­tria­lists' expec­ta­tions in terms of sus­tai­nable deve­lop­ment and sus­tai­nable engineering.

Partners and expertise

PTC (https://www.ptc.com/fr): spe­cia­li­zing in Com­pu­ter-Aided Desi­gn (CAD), Pro­duct Life­cycle Mana­ge­ment (PLM), the Inter­net of Things (IoT) and Aug­men­ted Rea­li­ty, PTC pro­vides tech­ni­cal exper­tise and tech­no­lo­gy plat­forms to trans­form indus­trial design.

UTC-Com­piegne: UTC is reco­gni­zed for its research in life cycle engi­nee­ring, eco-desi­gn, and digi­tal trans­for­ma­tion dedi­ca­ted to the manu­fac­tu­ring industry.

ECAM LaSalle (https://www.ecam.fr/): ECAM LaSalle's work focuses on know­ledge mana­ge­ment and digi­tal conti­nui­ty, inte­gra­ting the prin­ciples of sus­tai­na­bi­li­ty and tech­no­lo­gi­cal inno­va­tion into its trai­ning and research pro­grams, in col­la­bo­ra­tion with indus­try on the theme of “indus­try of the future.”

Scientific areas

The PADS chair will focus on seve­ral areas of research and development:

Integration of sustainability indicators into Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems

This first area aims to model and conso­li­date a set of sus­tai­na­bi­li­ty and envi­ron­men­tal per­for­mance indi­ca­tors asso­cia­ted with the ove­rall pro­duct life­cycle in order to make them avai­lable to desi­gners in a PLM system.

This work will involve defi­ning indi­ca­tors, crea­ting data models, and inte­gra­ting these indi­ca­tors into PLM sys­tems to faci­li­tate effec­tive eco-design.

Proactive design for disassembly, sustainability, and circularity

This area aims to spe­ci­fy an AI-based deci­sion sup­port sys­tem for mana­ging and recom­men­ding desi­gn rules and best prac­tices asso­cia­ted with a CAD modeler.

The objec­tive is to define end-of-life-orien­ted desi­gn rules while contri­bu­ting to pro­duct cir­cu­la­ri­ty. This includes the deve­lop­ment of a cog­ni­tive twin to assist desi­gners in using desi­gn rules throu­ghout the pro­duct lifecycle.

Activities and collaboration

Development of models and methods for proactive eco-design

By inte­gra­ting arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence tools into CAD pro­cesses, this acti­vi­ty aims to improve the effi­cien­cy, relia­bi­li­ty and sus­tai­na­bi­li­ty of pro­duct desi­gn, while redu­cing desi­gn errors, time to mar­ket, and, above all, rai­sing desi­gners' awa­re­ness of best prac­tices in terms of envi­ron­men­tal impact.

Theses and research

The Chair pro­vides fun­ding for theses and research in part­ner­ship with UTC-Com­piegne and ECAM LaSalle. This research will aim to create demons­tra­tors and proofs of concept (POC) for eco-desi­gn soft­ware inte­gra­ted into PTC solutions.

The col­la­bo­ra­tion bet­ween the soft­ware edi­tor and aca­de­mic ins­ti­tu­tions will pro­mote signi­fi­cant advances in both areas of research, bene­fi­ting manu­fac­tu­ring indus­tries and scien­ti­fic com­mu­ni­ties. The work will be scien­ti­fi­cal­ly led by the Rober­val labo­ra­to­ries at UTC-Com­piegne and the LabE­CAM at ECAM LaSalle, with active par­ti­ci­pa­tion from PTC to ensure that deve­lop­ments are in line with indus­trial needs.

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