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Information Requirements for Data-Driven Upgrade Engineering to Enable an Upgrade Circular Economy

  • In today’s environment, organizations face mounting challenges to reconcile eco-nomic efficiency with ecological responsibility and social sustainability. Upgrade Engineering offers a promising alternative to traditional maintenance strategies by combining technical upgrades with broader organizational and strategic sustaina-bility goals. Through a qualitative and exploratory research design that includes in-depth expert interviews across various industrial sectors and a systematic liter-ature review, a lifecycle-based information model was developed. This model de-scribes the information and data needs from the planning stage through construc-tion, usage, and improvement phases. The findings reveal that adopting an inte-grated data infrastructure that captures both quantitative sensor readings and qual-itative expert feedback is essential for effective decision-making and continuous improvement. The study concludes with practical recommendations and empha-sizes the necessity of interdisciplinary collaboration. Future research should fur-ther investigate interrelationships between the information collected in the plant life cycle phases and the technical, economic, and social dimensions of Upgrade Engineering in order to be able to steer upgrade decisions even more effectively.

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Author:Florian SchuldtORCiD, Günther SchuhORCiDGND, Jan-Niklas Abels
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-03546-2_12
ISBN:978-3-032-03545-5
ISBN:978-3-032-03546-2
ISSN:1868-4238
ISSN:1868-422X
Parent Title (English):Advances in Production Management Systems. Cyber-Physical-Human Production Systems: Human-AI Collaboration and Beyond. 44th IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2025, Kamakura, Japan, August 31 - September 4, 2025, Proceedings, Part V.
Series (Serial Number):IFIP advances in information and communication technology (768)
Publisher:Springer
Place of publication:Cham [u. a.]
Editor:Hajime Mizuyama, Eijii Morinaga, Tomomi Nonaka, Toshiya Kaihara, Gregor von Cieminski, David Romero
Document Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2025/08/29
Date of first Publication:2025/08/27
Release Date:2025/08/29
Tag:01; 03
Lifecycle-based information model; Upgrade circular economy; Upgrade engineering
First Page:167
Last Page:183
Note:
DiCES: Digital Transformation of Circular Economy for Industrial Sustainability

The aim of the research project 'DiCES' is to develop a data-based integrated value creation system of the multidimensional circular economy for manufacturing companies, which makes true circular economy completely part of the operational order processing of companies.

Duration: 01.06.2023 – 30.05.2026
Funding no.: 01MN23022A
Project homepage: project-dices.de
Funding: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK)

Acknowledgments: Funded by: Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) on the basis of a decision by the German Bundestag under the funding code 01MN23022A.
Name of the conference:44th IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2025
place of the conference:Kamakura, Japan
Date of the conference:31.08.2025-04.09.2025
Institute / Department:FIR e. V. an der RWTH Aachen
Dienstleistungsmanagement
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 62 Ingenieurwissenschaften

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