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Product Digital Twin Supporting End-of-life Phase of Electric Vehicle Batteries Utilizing Product-Process-Resource Asset Network
Strakosova, Sara, Novak, Petr, Kadera, Petr
In a circular economy, products in their end-of-life phase should be either remanufactured or recycled. Both of these processes are crucial for sustainability and environmental conservation. However, manufacturers frequently do not support these processes enough in terms of not sharing relevant data about the products nor their (re-)manufacturing processes. This paper proposes to accompany each product with a digital twin technology, specifically the Product Digital Twin (PDT), which can carry information for facilitating and optimizing production and remanufacturing processes. This paper introduces a knowledge representation called Bi-Flow Product-Process-Resource Asset Network (Bi-PAN). Bi-PAN extends a well-proven Product-Process-Resource Asset Network (PAN) paradigm by integrating both assembly and disassembly workflows into a single information model. Such networks enable capturing relevant relationships across products, production resources, manufacturing processes, and specific production operations that have to be done in the manufacturing phase of a product. The proposed approach is demonstrated in a use-case of disassembling electric vehicle (EV) batteries. By utilizing PDTs with Bi-PAN knowledge models, challenges associated with disassembling of EV batteries can be solved flexibly and efficiently for various battery types, enhancing the sustainability of the EV battery life-cycle management.
- Transportation > Ground > Road (1.00)
- Transportation > Electric Vehicle (1.00)