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Webinar 7: Sustainable Design with GenAI From Concept to Circular Innovation
Generative AI is reshaping the landscape of product development, offering unprecedented capabilities to explore, evaluate, and optimize designs under complex sustainability constraints. In this talk, we delve into how generative models—such as diffusion models, VAEs, and GANs—can be leveraged to accelerate sustainable product design across multiple dimensions, including material efficiency, recyclability, modularity, and lifecycle impact. We’re presentingstrategies to integrate environmental data and circularity metrics into the generation process, enabling AI to not only create novel design alternatives, but also to assess them in terms of ecological and functional performance. Case studies from materials engineering, remanufacturing, and additive manufacturing illustrate how generative AI can support early-stage decision-making, reduce iteration time, and promote circular design principles. The talk aims to provide both conceptual insight and practical frameworks for deploying generative AI as a catalyst for sustainable innovation.
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Webinar 6: Designing Interfaces: A User-Centred Approach
In the context of industry and manufacturing, the interface between humans and machines plays a crucial role in ensuring efficiency and productivity. This webinar, brought by UNIMORE (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia ), explores how a user-centered design approach can transform complex systems into intuitive and efficient tools, enhancing the interaction between operators and technology. Use cases and design strategies are presented, focusing on Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI) and industrial dashboards, with particular attention to ergonomics, operational context and workflow optimization.
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Webinar 5: Digital Twins for Circular Manufacturing Processes
This webinar was co-delivered by DaCapo project partners LMS (Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems & Automation) and AIMEN Technology Centre. It explores how digital twin technologies can be leveraged to enhance circularity across manufacturing operations, focusing on process optimisation, real-time monitoring, and closed-loop production systems.
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Gain insights into practical applications, current research developments, and lessons learned from industrial case studies.
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