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D6.1: Report on Woodworking process sustainability criticalities analysis (Rapporti progetti di ricerca)
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- D6.1: Report on Woodworking process sustainability criticalities analysis (Rapporti progetti di ricerca) (literal)
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- 2013-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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- Iuri Betti (SCM), Dean Tomlinson(Spirax Sarco), Alessandro Brusaferri (ITIA) (literal)
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- D6.1: Report on Woodworking process sustainability criticalities analysis (literal)
- Abstract
- Factory-Ecomation activities related to the efficiency improvement of equipment for the woodworking domain have laid the ground for their development on the advanced analysis of Swedwood IKEA plant, as reference example for this industrial sector. The focus in particular have been posed on a specific manufacturing line, selected by IKEA as most representative of their production throughout the European plants.
Taking into account both the bottom-up approach obtained through the auditing of the plant, and the top-down analysis previously conducted by other studies on the sector, it has been decided to focus the R&D developments of the project on three main areas of interest:
- The development and integration of retro-fitting solutions for actual existing machines;
- The conception of new woodworking machine subsystems that could tackle the most important sources of energy consumption;
- The development of more advanced energy recovery solutions, working on the waste flows of the production, namely the burning of wood burr.
The following report is accordingly divided into three main sections to cover these aspect, preceded by a general introduction on the main causes of energy consumption in the woodworking industry (mostly electricity), and a specific in-depth analysis about the problem of defining standard procedures for the evaluation of energy efficiency in a manufacturing line of woodworking machine tools.
After these general considerations, the first main sections on R&D activities is focused on the potential contributions that innovative retro-fitting solutions could grant when applied to a manufacturing line such as that installed at IKEA plant. An in-depth analysis of the shop-floor, with specific considerations on the state of working of the line, is then followed by considerations about the selection of the most appropriate machines to consider for intervention, the specification of the measurements devices that will be developed and integrated into the line to enable efficiency improvements, and the definition of the technological solutions that will be effectively studied to obtain these improvements.
The second core section of the report covers the most innovative solutions that are going to be investigated and developed during Factory-Ecomation: retro-fitting is essential to improve the performance of existing plant, but there is an obvious limit to the effectiveness of these solutions. It is instead on the conception of new generation woodworking machines that the most innovative ideas can be included to reach much higher level of sustainability. The section therefore identifies the most important points of focus for the R&D activities, condensing them into the example posed by a specific machine (the sanding machines) where they are mostly critical. Specific subsection then propose the specification of the developments to be faced during the project.
The final section of the deliverable complements the work to be conducted on woodworking machines by analysing the most appropriate points of intervention to develop and integrate energy recovery solutions. Differently from the iron casting example, where the dispersion of waste energy is a fundamental part of the manufacturing process itself, in the case of the woodworking sector the production is not energy intensive (the majority is electricity, but it depends on the machine tools efficiency) and therefore there are no relevant waste flows of energy within the plant. On the contrary, energy is \"latent\" within the product being processed, as part of its life-cycle, and it becomes therefore fundamental to reduce the fraction that is actually wasted through the wood burr management.
Already, simple solution for energy generation are in place, but their overall effectiveness is well below what could be achieved and, most importantly, does not take into account the comprehensive picture of the plant in order to optimize it. The final section of the report therefore proposes the development and integration of new energy recovery solutions specifically conceived to tackle this problem in an innovative way. (literal)
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