Technovative Solutions Ltd., one of the crucial partners of the RESTORE (Sustainable Remanufacturing Solution with increased automation and recycled content in laser and plasma-based processes) project, participated in the 4th General Assembly of the project. The assembly was organised by Cranfield University from 28 to 29 July 2025 at the university campus.
The consortium members presented the updates and progress of their work packages up to month 18 of the project (June 2025). The European Welding Federation (EWF) conducted a workshop on risk management for the project on the first day of the event. The 5th work package of the RESTORE project, which is Industrial Application & Validation, was kicked off on the first day as well by the responsible organisations – Welding Alloy and Cranfield University. On the second day of the assembly, the participants made a site visit to the Welding and Additive Manufacturing Centre.
Sayedur Rahman, Senior Electronics Engineer at TVS, joined the assembly online to provide an update on the RESTORE Remanufacturing Platform to the consortium. TVS is partly working on this work package, while the other parts are being overseen by Fraunhofer SCAI.
TVS has made progress in developing and integrating key digital tools to enable sustainable remanufacturing. Sayedur Rahman covered the outcomes of TVS’ tasks, including blockchain integration, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and cost modelling, the Digital Product Passport (DPP) framework, the Circularity Calculator (CC), a DPP-enabled digital marketplace, and the overall RESTORE platform in his presentation. He also focused on demonstrating the functionalities, such as DPP creation, cost and environmental performance analysis, and collaboration with use case partners. Moreover, the interdependencies with other work packages, timelines, deliverables, milestones, and effort distribution, along with how TVS is contributing to the project, were also discussed at the meeting.
The next review meeting will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on 25 September 2025. For each work package, one presentation will be delivered, covering the activity description, results achieved, deviations (if any), and planned next steps.
About RESTORE Project
RESTORE aims to advance potential Service-oriented Architecture (SoA) cladding technologies, including laser direct energy deposition, plasma transfer arc process for sustainable remanufacturing applications. For digitalization, the project is also aiming to develop a platform, which will offer digital technologies and tools, to increase process automation, recipe book and simulation tools for product and process optimisation, decision support framework, ecoDESIGN framework, blockchain-enabled digital product passport, digital marketplace, business model templates, and collaborative spaces that can help to facilitate and streamline the remanufacturing process, providing greater traceability, transparency, and efficiency.
The RESTORE Project is funded within the Horizon Europe program (HADEA) with Project ID – 101138775.
