Signifikant for
Circular Economy
The DiCiM Project
The DiCiM project is dedicated to demonstrating a comprehensive set of digital solutions that empower various stakeholders within the industrial value chain. These solutions facilitate value recovery activities, pivotal for advancing a circular economy. The central mission is to increase the return and remanufacturing of spare parts and appliances, thereby minimizing waste and promoting sustainable practices.
Signifikant's Open Access Digital Platform (OADP)
Being a central piece of the integrated digital solutions, Signifikant’s OADP supports organisation and systems involved in the reverse lifecycle processes to share information in order to increase the number of returned and remanufactured spare parts and appliances.
Functionality
The Signifikant OAD Platform is an open access platform with the purpose to solve general data sharing, management and publication issues for multiple organizations that cooperate in value recovery processes. The main functionality for the platform is:
- Import and unification of information used by the value recovery processes
- Enrichment and publication of the information to multiple channels
- Consumption of the information through the OADP portal, files or API
- Integration with systems that provide functionality to the value recovery processes
Companies can join the OADP on two levels:
- Customer companies will only consume information
- Participant companies will both share and consume information
- They can control on a very granular level which companies and roles will have access to what data.
Use Cases
Expose Demand for used components in service portal
The Signifikant OADP will integrate with C-ECO’s platform to inform a service technician or customer that orders a spare component in case there is an interest (option) for the replaced component. A return for the used component can be ordered together with an order for the spare component.
Expose Demand for used appliances in customer portal
The Signifikant OADP will integrate with Lexmarks Collected By Lexmark (CBL) portal to show the takeback/buyback price for a list of printers. The price will be based on a machine learning model that takes into account the remanufacture level of the printers.
Inventory of returned appliances to enable reuse of parts
The Signifikant OADP will integrate with Arçeliks warehouse applications to keep an inventory of returned appliances and the parts they contain. The collectable spare parts will be searchable and if removed, this will also be captured.
Standard product data format for reverse lifecycle processes
A standard API for sharing product information will be created that supports the needs of the reverse lifecycle processes. Data will be imported from C-ECO (products and BOMs), Lexmark (products), Arçelik (products and BOMs), Gorenje (IoT and ML results) to the Signifikant OADP.
Try it yourself
A demonstration site which includes some publicly available data will be made available and consecutively improved during the course of the DiCiM project.
Funded by the European Union