Resilient and Sustainable Production - Proactive greenfield and brownfield production development (RaSP)

Purpose and goal:

The RaSP project aims to develop a framework incl illustrative examples that proactively support Swedish manufacturing industries to be in the forefront in the transition towards circular production and create prerequisites for resilience and sustainability for greenfield and brownfield production development. The goals are: a) to determine the essential elements of a resilient and sustainable production system, and b) to create a development process supporting this.

Practical knowledge will be developed related to the content and prerequisites, from a holistic perspective. Expected results and effects:

The industrial relevance of the project lies in ensuring a future-proof factory in an efficient industrial value chain, based on circularity, in terms of minimum waste and long-term overall sustainability with a triple bottom line perspective, including social, ecological and long-term economic values (people, planet and profit). Yet another requirement is the ability to adapt to future market needs and opportunities, to be resilient.

Resilience and sustainability are essential requirements for competitive manufacturing in the future. The results will be a framework for this. Approach and implementation:

An interactive research approach will be applied where the co-operation in the consortia is based on a mutual interest to interpret, understand, develop and suggest different strategies and activities throughout the whole research project. The approach will support co-creation of knowledge in fast-moving production development processes (in greenfield and brownfield projects) where uncertainties and new problems need to be considered.

Thus, the project gives possibilities for a high learning curve providing opportunities for dual benefits for both practices and science.