Sustainability Transformation - Cross-company product design for the circular economy

For circular value creation, product designs depend on feedback and parameters way ahead of the value creation. For example, to provide a high level of reuse products need to fit both primary and (several) secondary use. This may involve several manufacturers and product designs. For proper recycling, product designs need to pay attention to the recycler requirements. Those requirements dynamically change on the product design causing transcompany interdependencies. These examples illustrate how circular value creation poses a significant change for companies to their classical product design processes. In order to lower the bar for circular value creation, LCM and the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland identify and specify how modularized algorithms and digital services can leverage circular value creation. Jointly, the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland, LCM and JKU initiate a series of workshops to help companies in identifying use-cases. This process includes workshops (i) to increase crossdiscipline/domain exchange to detect and reveal circular economy action potential in regard of digital services and new business models (ii) to draft scenarios on company related circular value creation, (iii) to formulate concrete use-case descriptions with a circular perspective that involves the companies in the workshop. The University of Applied Sciences Burgenland will use its ability to relate and transfer the LCM and derived COMET-K2 technologies to the topic of circular value creation and implement proper ways to communicate and convey the technologies to a broad range of companies.