On 24 October, the GoProZero project consortium met for the third time – this time on the campus of Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences and Arts. The aim of the meeting was to discuss progress in the individual work packages and to provide new impetus for joint research work. The focus was on exchanging information on current research results and practical approaches to sustainable product development.
The GoProZero project aims to create new methods and tools for circular and resource-efficient product development, thereby supporting companies on their path to a sustainable industry.
Exchange, workshops and new ideas
The regular consortium meetings serve to facilitate knowledge transfer and coordination between the 14 project partners. In addition to presenting the latest project results, the meeting offered two workshops that further promote transfer between research and practice. The first workshop presented the new GoProZero Content Hub on the it's OWL innovation platform. In future, it will offer partners a central environment for sharing project results, methods and experiences. The second workshop focused on practical challenges in integrating sustainability aspects into business processes. Participants discussed concrete approaches for better combining ecological and economic goals.
Joint research for sustainable innovation
At inIT, the GoProZero project is linked to the Interconnected Automation Systems working group headed by Prof. Dr. Henning Trsek. Research group leader Natalia Moriz and Philip Sehr, research assistant, attended the meeting in Bielefeld to discuss current results and next steps with the partners.
Together with Fraunhofer IOSB-INA in Lemgo, the working group is working on a central work package that encompasses the development and implementation of lifecycle data management. The aim is to develop a modular semantic data model that can be used to efficiently manage relevant engineering data and make it usable for project goals with a view to sustainable product development. This technology enables comprehensive data analysis across the entire product lifecycle, thereby contributing to the development of recyclable and resource-efficient products. The solution is to be tested in practice in collaboration with industry partners CLAAS and DENIOS SE.
Productive exchange between research and industry strengthens project work
The third consortium meeting once again demonstrated how productive the exchange between research and industry within GoProZero is. Direct dialogue generates valuable ideas that are incorporated into further project work.
‘These regular meetings are particularly valuable for coordinating content and transferring knowledge between research and industry,’ emphasises Natalia Moriz. ‘They enable us to feed practical requirements directly back into research and develop viable solutions together.’
About the project
GoProZero is a project of the leading-edge cluster it's OWL – Intelligent Technical Systems OstWestfalenLippe and will run for three years. It is funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MWIKE) and has a total volume of around five million euros.