Project description Products and Services engineering 2010Smart car parts save money and the environmentA car that can tell mechanics what is wrong with it would improve road safety and reduce repair and maintenance costs for drivers. Such a vehicle is one application of a new kind of product life-cycle management (PLM) system.Closed-loop PLM, as it is known, allows a product – be it a car, a locomotive or a piece of factory equipment – to be monitored throughout its life. To achieve that goal, European researchers involved in the PROMISE project are using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags embedded in product components to transmit information wirelessly at short range.The RFID tags, a type of product-embedded information device, are similar to the electronic labels commonly used by stores to protect merchandise from theft but can contain a lot more information about the product.A better, cheaper car serviceIn one demonstration of the technology, the PROMISE team embedded the tags into a specially adapted Fiat car and used them to transmit information to mechanics about the wear and tear on different parts. To gather the data, the vehicle simply needs to be driven over a one-metre square servicing pad fitted with an ultra-high frequency reader and four antennae. The pad compares part numbers to manufacturer information stored in a database.Mechanics can then instantly determine which parts are nearing the end of their useful life and which may need to be replaced. This information helps prevent them from overlooking the replacement of old parts during servicing, but it can also stop them from replacing parts unnecessarily. The technology can therefore help reduce maintenance costs. Used in a car owner’s garage, the system would help ensure their car remains in tip-top condition.Keeping good parts from the scrap heapIn addition, when the car is to be scrapped, the RFID tags would help prevent unnecessary waste by allowing mechanics to identify parts that are still in a usable condition and which could either be kept as spares or refurbished for use on another vehicle. Caterpillar, a project partner, is already using refurbished and remanufactured parts in its earth-moving vehicles. The ability to do so allows the company to use less raw materials, energy and resources in their production, increasing the company’s profit margins.Helping recycling and consumersMore significantly, the use of RFID tags to transmit life-cycle information will contribute to the European Union’s goal of ensuring that 96% of a car’s weight is recyclable by 2015.For businesses and consumers, closed-loop PLM also offers other advantages. By monitoring a product when it leaves the factory, through its useful life until it is scrapped or recycled, companies will have more information at hand with which to improve the design and satisfy consumer needs. Show the project objective Hide the project objective PROMISE will develop appropriate technology, including product lifecycle models, Product Embedded Information Devices and software components and tools for decision making based on data gathered through a product lifecycle. This is done to enable and exploit the seamless flow, tracing and updating of product information, after its delivery to the customer and up to its final destiny and back to the designer and producer. The breakthrough contribution of PROMISE, in the long term, is to allow information flow management to go beyond the customer, to close the product lifecycle information loops, and to enable the seamless e-Transformation of Product Lifecycle Information to Knowledge. PROMISE integrates research activities to realise a prototype PROMISE PLM System, industrial applications covering 11 demonstrators in the Automotive, Railway, Heavy Load Vehicle, EEE and White goods sectors, standardisation, business development issues and training activities. PROMISE offers to the Product Lifecycle stakeholders: to create value by transforming information to knowledge at all phases of the product lifecycle and thus improve product and service quality, efficiency and sustainability. The main objectives are to develop new 1. closed-loop life cycle information flow models for BOL, MOL and EOL 2. PLM system and IT infrastructure exploiting the capabilities of smart product embedded information devices 3. standards to allow the technologies and associated tools to be developed by the PROMISE project to be accepted by the market. 4. working and business models appropriate for the use and exploitation of the new technologies and tools to be developed by all actors involved in a product lifecycle. The PROMISE consortium consists of 22 partners from 9 European countries. In addition it integrates research activities performed at private and EU-projects, as well as international corporations (IMS) involving 5 regions (EU, Switzerland, Japan, USA, Australia. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2002-2.3.3.1 - Products and Services engineering 2010 Call for proposal FP6-2002-IST-NMP-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme IP - Integrated Project Coordinator STIFTELSEN SINTEF EU contribution € 935 225,00 Address STRINDVEIEN 4 7034 Trondheim Norway See on map Region Norge Trøndelag Trøndelag Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (24) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION (SWITZERLAND) AG Switzerland EU contribution € 219 204,00 Address Brown Boveri-Strasse 5 8050 Z�rich See on map Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE Switzerland EU contribution € 797 188,00 Address BATIMENT CE 3316 STATION 1 1015 Lausanne See on map Region Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Région lémanique Vaud Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ENOTRAC AG Participation ended Switzerland EU contribution € 105 098,00 Address POSTGAESSLI 23 CH-3661 UETENDORF See on map Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITAET BREMEN Germany EU contribution € 528 251,00 Address Bibliothekstrasse 1 28359 Bremen See on map Region Bremen Bremen Bremen, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data INDYON GMBH Germany EU contribution € 267 977,00 Address Hansastr. 27d 80686 Muenchen See on map Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data COGNIDATA GMBH Germany EU contribution € 304 747,00 Address FRANKFURTER STRASSE 36-38 D-61118 BAD VILBEL See on map Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data INMEDIASP GESELLSCHAFT FUER INNOVATIVE PRODUKTENWICKLUNG UND INFORMATIONSTECHNIK MBH Germany EU contribution € 518 088,00 Address NEUENDORFSTRASSE 18 A 16761 HENNINGSDORF See on map Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data SAP SE Germany EU contribution € 916 250,00 Address DIETMAR HOPP ALLEE 16 69190 Walldorf See on map Region Baden-Württemberg Karlsruhe Rhein-Neckar-Kreis Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG Germany EU contribution € 611 500,00 Address AM CAMPEON 1-15 85579 Neubiberg See on map Region Bayern Oberbayern München, Landkreis Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Teknillinen korkeakoulu Finland EU contribution € 439 459,00 Address Otakaari 1 02015 ESPOO See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data TRACKWAY OY Finland EU contribution € 383 586,00 Address Tekniikantie 14 02150 Espoo See on map Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data CATERPILLAR FRANCE SAS France EU contribution € 149 326,00 Address 40 av leon Blum 38043 Grenoble C�x 9 See on map Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data INTRACOM S.A. 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