E2COMATION

Improving industrial energy efficiency at European Manufacturing level requires the integration of energy data with advanced optimization techniques to guide a company decision making.
E2COMATION intends to address the optimization of energy usage, at multiple hierarchical layers of a manufacturing process as well as considering the whole life-cycle perspective across the value chain. To this purpose, it aims at providing a cross-sectorial methodological framework and a modular technological platform to monitor, predict, evaluate impact of the behavior of a factory across energy and the life-cycle assessment dimensions, in order to adapt and optimize dynamically not only its real-time behavior over different time-scales, but also its strategic and sustainable positioning with respect to the complex supply and value chain it belongs to.
Its major objectives are: 1) Holistic analysis of energy-related data streams for production performance forecasting; 2) Life-cycle conceptual paradigm applied to digital twinning of factory assets; 3) Factory-level integrated multi-objective optimization architecture; 4) Modular and scalable automation platform for distributed monitoring and supervision; 5) Comprehensive simulation environment enhanced with energy and environmental performance; 6) Energy Aware Planning and Scheduling tool (EAP&S); 7) Life Cycle Assessment and Costing tool (LCAC) integrated in a company Decision Support System; 8) Sustainable Computer Aided Process Planning (s-CAPP); 9) LCA-driven supply chain management (SCM) and business ecosystem.
E2COMATION technological framework is proved in 2 completely different value chains, the food and drink one and the woodworking one, with 5 concurrent industrial use-cases.