Developing an open platform for recording and reducing CO₂ along the value chain of the steel and sheet metal industry
de:karb – Forschungsprojekt unter Leitung von TRUMPF
Germany (consortium with partners among others in Esslingen, Essen, Stuttgart, Ditzingen)New on Amplifa
About the de:karb project
de:karb is a joint project funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) with 8.3 million euros as part of the GreenTech innovation competition. It launched in June 2023 and is designed to run for three years. Led by TRUMPF, thyssenkrupp Materials Services, the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA and further partners are researching how CO₂ consumption in sheet metal manufacturing can be measured and reduced. The core objective is a freely accessible online platform with which companies can determine the carbon footprint of individual components along the entire supply chain (Scope 1+2+3). TRUMPF is working on AI-based technologies for nesting in laser cutting in order to cut more parts from the sheet. Fraunhofer IPA is developing AI-supported scheduling methods that take ecological criteria into account, such as shifting energy-intensive production steps to times of high availability of renewable energy. thyssenkrupp Materials Services orchestrates material, value and data flows via the digital platform and integrates uniform standards for networking the partners' IT systems.
- Site
- Germany (consortium with partners among others in Esslingen
- Processes
- Development of an open online platform for CO₂ accounting (carbon accounting) at component level, CO₂ transparency along the entire value chain of the steel/sheet metal industry (Scope 1+2+3), AI-based optimization of nesting (material utilization) in laser cutting, AI-based product scheduling under ecological criteria (energy-intensive steps at, Orchestration of material, value and data flows via a digital platform (thyssenkrupp, Connection of partners' IT systems to the platform
- Materials
- Artificial intelligence / machine learning, Carbon Accounting, Digital orchestration platform
- Founded
- 2023
- Industries
- Steel-producing and steel-processing industry, Sheet metal production and sheet metal manufacturing, Metal-processing SME sector, Downstream metal-processing industry (SME)
- 01
Connecting the partners' IT systems to the platform
- 02
Recording and accounting of CO₂ emissions at component level (Scope 1+2+3)
- 03
AI-based optimization of nesting (material utilization) in laser cutting
- 04
AI-based product scheduling under ecological criteria
- 05
Orchestration of material, value and data flows via the digital platform
Methods and Technologies
Artificial intelligence / machine learning
Used for optimized nesting in laser cutting and for ecologically optimized scheduling in manufacturing.
Carbon Accounting
Systematic recording, assessment and tracking of direct and indirect emissions from Scope 1+2+3 down to component level.
Digital orchestration platform
Tracking of input materials and their characteristic data via uniform standards along the supply chain.
Components and Applications
Inside the production
Industries
Additional services
Reference customers
Project History
- 2023
Launch of the de:karb research project in June; funding by BMWK with 8.3 million euros as part of the GreenTech innovation competition; duration three years.
- 2024
Consortium meeting of all de:karb members at thyssenkrupp Materials Services in Essen.