FiberEUse: Large-Scale Demonstration of New Circular Economy Value Chains Based on the Reuse of End-of-Life Fiber-Reinforced Composites—A Circular It Platform to Manage Innovative Design and Circular Entities

Abstract

The new Circular Economy System requires an innovative approach to the management of information. The FiberEUse IT platform is a solution that enables the exchange of information among stakeholders that works into and across the glass and carbon fibers value chains, from the design to the end of the circle of life. The IT solution supports companies in scouting new potential market applications and search information about companies, manufacturing processes, and objects. Those objects had been defined “circular entities” and can be products, materials, semi-manufactured objects, wastes, among others. The information available for each circular entity is the one which the company itself wants to share and can propose: description, informative details, technical details, processes adopted to create it, consultancy services used, etc. To obtain this necessary variety, the data model had been structured in a polymorphic way; being able to serve different product histories without the ambition to create a common and classic entity relationship schema but thinking by high level object-oriented design.

Keywords

• circular IT platform
• circular entity
• information management
• matchmake
• enable value chains
• polymorphic