Engineering platform offers collaborative cloud options for sustainable manufacturing

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A Purdue College engineering innovator has developed a cloud-based platform aimed toward mapping inter-industry dependence networks for supplies and waste technology amongst producers in sectors resembling chemical substances, prescription drugs and different industries tied to biobased economies.

Shweta Singh, an assistant professor in Purdue’s Faculty of Engineering, led a crew that developed a brand new technique for automated creation of bodily input-output tables to trace flows in manufacturing networks.

PIOTs present an in depth mapping of inter-industrial dependence to satisfy a producing goal that may assist decide financial and environmental outcomes for numerous manufacturing pathways based mostly on materials necessities.

“In contrast to present applied sciences that use tiered information stream techniques or time sequence approximations to fill information bandgaps, our new platform permits for dynamic modifications in manufacturing community by way of mechanistic fashions developed as laptop codes or simulation techniques to replace community construction for industrial interactions,” Singh stated. “The objective of this know-how is to help producers to trace the supplies stream and provide community demand to optimize the method and scale back general waste, in addition to help within the decision-making course of to choose probably the most sustainable and resilient know-how in any provider community.”

Singh stated the algorithms on this bottom-up modular mannequin assist to map useful resource flows with enhanced accuracy and reliability as information could be extra simply reconciled based mostly on mechanistic fashions by way of this strategy. She added that the platform affords a collaborative, cloud-based atmosphere that will have functions for the pharmaceutical, meals and chemical processing industries.

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Singh leads Purdue’s Sustainable Industrial Pure Coupled Programs (SINCS) Group. The mission of the SINCS group is to allow sustainable progress of biobased economies and industries together with making certain native and international ecological sustainability.

The work is supported by the Nationwide Science Basis’s Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport System. This analysis was supported by the Nationwide Science Basis beneath grant No. CBET- 1805741.

Singh and her crew labored with the Purdue Analysis Basis Workplace of Expertise Commercialization to patent the know-how. The innovators are on the lookout for companions to proceed creating and commercializing their platform know-how for numerous industries. For extra data on licensing and different alternatives, contact Abhi Karve of OTC at aakarve@prf.org and point out monitor code 2020-SING-68956.

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Author:
Chris Adam,
cladam@prf.org

Supply:
Shweta Singh,
singh294@purdue.edu