Industrial Cluster FLEXibility platform for sustainable FACTories to reduce CO2 emissions and to enable the Energy Transition
Digital, Industry & SpaceHORIZON-IAID: 101058657
EC Contribution
€179,970
Consortium Size
27 orgs
Start Year
2022
▶Summary
The Flex4fact project aims to develop an end-to-end ecosystem that takes a modular approach to enable flexible manufacturing in industry and create the conditions for the necessary energy transition in which all stakeholders can participate and benefit. Currently, complex process industries and the segment of mixed clusters and distributed renewable energy flows are not covered. Indeed, at least three key elements of the Flex4Fact approach differ from current offerings: 1) enabling industrial flexibility through digital process twinning and machine learning techniques to address complex operational scenarios and exploit the full potential of the selected industrial cases
Consortium (27)
🇳🇴 SINTEF ASNO
coordinator🇳🇴 SINTEF MANUFACTURING ASNO
coordinator🇪🇸 AINGURA IIOT SLES
partner🇩🇪 CAPGEMINI ENGINEERING DEUTSCHLAND SAS & CO KGDE
partner🇪🇸 CELSA OPCO, SAES
partner🇮🇹 CENTRO DI COMPETENZA PER LA SICUREZZA E L'OTTIMIZZAZIONE DELLE INFRASTRUTTURE STRATEGICHE START 4.0IT
partner🇮🇹 ENI PLENITUDE SPA SOCIETA BENEFITIT
partner🇩🇪 HOCHSCHULE ALBSTADT-SIGMARINGENDE
partner🇪🇸 IKERGUNE AIEES
partner🇳🇴 INAVENTA SOLAR ASNO
partner🇪🇸 INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE ARAGONES
partner🇳🇴 INSTITUTT FOR ENERGITEKNIKKNO
partner🇳🇴 NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNUNO
partner🇮🇹 PLENITUDE ENERGY SERVICES SPAIT
partner🇩🇪 RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHENDE
partner🇮🇹 SEACSUB SPAIT
partner🇪🇸 SENER INGENIERIA Y SISTEMAS SAES
partner🇪🇸 SENER MOBILITY SAES
partner🇳🇴 SINTEF ASNO
partner🇳🇴 SINTEF ENERGI ASNO
partner🇮🇹 STAM SRLIT
partner🇪🇸 STANDARD PROFIL SPAIN SAES
partner🇩🇪 STEINBEIS INNOVATION GGMBHDE
partner🇩🇪 THEBEN AGDE
partner🇪🇸 UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYAES
partner🇮🇪 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORKIE
partner🇮🇹 WE PLUS SPAIT
partnerProject Results (47)
Source: CORDIS, the EU research results database.
▶Publications (24)
Toward a Digital Twin: Extrusion Die for Manufacturing Polyphenylene Sulfide Solar Thermal Collectors
Dag Lindholm; Florian Arbes; Michaela Meir; John Rekstad; Einar Sørheim; Øyvind Jensen; Sayan Adhikari; Gulshan Noorsumar; Hallvard Fjær
A framework for designing a decision support system for energy aware production planning and scheduling
Procedia Cirp· 2025
Emrah Arica, Olga Ogorodnyk, Matteo Ranaboldo, Marc Juanpera, Pau Fisco-Compte, Bruno Domenech & al.
Assessing power-to-heat technologies for industrial electrification: A multi-criteria decision analysis approach
Arman Ashabi, Mohamed Mostafa, Andriy Hryshchenko, Ken Bruton, Dominic T.J. O’sullivan
Design and utilization of a decision support tool to advance energy efficiency in industries
Arman Ashabi, Mohamed Mostafa, Andriy Hryshchenko, Ken Bruton, T.J. O’Sullivan Dominic
Digital Twin and Deman Response – Sustainable Tools for Quality and Energy Consumption Optimization in Manufacturing
Procedia CIRP· 2025
Olga Ogorodnyk Endre Sølvsberg og Ragnhild Johnsen Eleftheriadis
Dynamic Operational Life Cycle Assessment of Industrial Building Retrofit: Exploring Electricity Mix and Climate Change Effects—A German Case Study
Herzogenrath, Sonja; Cuypers, Johannes Linus; Richter, Veronika; Schildt, Maximilian; Frisch, Jérôme; van Treeck, Christoph
Energy optimization of an industrial cluster: a cooperative coalition approach
Adriano Caprara, Paula González-Font-de-Rubinat, Eduard Bullich-Massagué
Flexibility assessment in continuous manufacturing processes based on a physics-informed digitalisation strategy: A case study in the rubber industry
María Herrando; Ismael Viejo; Susana Calvo; Leticia A. Gracia; Salvador Izquierdo
Hydrogen blending for partial decarbonisation in a steel melt-shop: A year-long comprehensive analysis across multiple scenarios
Mohamed Mostafa, Arman Ashabi, Andriy Hryshcenko, Ken Bruton, Dominic T.J. O’Sullivan
IEEE Access
Flexibility Service for Balance Responsible Parties’ Industrial Customers: A Day-Ahead Cost Optimization Approach Using Price Forecasting· 2025DOI
Adriano Caprara; Sara Barja-Martinez; Mònica Aragüés-Peñalba; Eduard Bullich-Massagué
Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Life Cycle Assessment: A Framework for Balancing Automation and Human Expertise
Nwagwu, Chibuikem; Ogorodnyk, Olga; Sølvsberg, Endre; Eleftheriadis, Ragnhild Johnsen; Meskers, Christina
Sustainable optimal production scheduling methodology under implicit demand response and carbon policy: A manufacturing industry case study
Pau Fisco-Compte, Marc Juanpera, Bruno Domenech, Rafael Pastor, Matteo Ranaboldo, Eduard Bullich-Massagué
The RICO dataset: A multivariate HVAC indoors and outdoors time-series dataset
Zachari Thiry; Massimiliano Ruocco; Alessandro Nocente; Odne Andreas Oksavik
Dynamic Operational Life Cycle Assessment of Industrial Building Retrofit: Exploring Electricity Mix and Climate Change Effects—A German Case Study
Sonja Herzogenrath, Johannes Linus Cuypers, Veronika Richter, Maximilian Schildt, Jérôme Frisch, Christoph van Treeck
Industrial Energy Cluster Optimization Using Flexibility Aggregation
Adriano, Caprara; Gonzalez Font de Rubinat, Paula; Ranaboldo, Matteo; Bullich-Massagué, Eduard; Aragüés-Peñalba, Mònica; Cimmino, Domenico
Models and algorithms for optimizing planning and scheduling of the manufacturing processes
instname:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)· 2024
Fisco Compte, Pau; Manafi, Ehsan; Ranaboldo, Matteo; Domenech Léga, Bruno; Juanpera Gallel, Marc; Pastor Moreno, Rafael; Ferrer Martí, Laia; Bullich Massagué, Eduard; Hadj Taieb, Mohamed Ali; Desai, Jaineel; Rövekamp, Jessica
Multi-stage optimization flexibility algorithm for demand response in ancillary services. An industrial case study
Fisco-Compte, Pau; Bullich-Massagué, Eduard; Domenech, Bruno; Juanpera, Marc; Pastor, Rafael; Ranaboldo, Matteo
Optimal Industrial Clusters: Flex4Fact Summer Research Report
SINTEF Report· 2024
Kitch, Madeline; Støen, Mikael; Muñoz Ortiz, Miguel; Lima Silva, Thiago; Juanpera, Marc; Fisco-Compte, Pau
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Bullich-Massagué, Eduard; Ranaboldo, Matteo; Aragüés-Peñalba, Mònica; Arica, Emrah; Bade, Alexander; Burgio, Alessandro; Caccamo, Chiara; Caprara, Adriano; Cimmino, Domenico; Domenech, Bruno; Danoso, Irene; Fragapane, Giuseppe; González-Font-de-Rubinat, Paula; Jahnke, Eric; Juanpera, Marc; Manafi, Ehsan; Rövekamp, Jessica; Tani, Riccardo
The Impact of Electricity Tariffs on Optimal Production Scheduling
Fisco-Compte, Pau; Bullich-Massagué, Eduard; Domenech, Bruno; Juanpera, Marc; Pastor, Rafael; Ranaboldo, Matteo
A framework for enabling manufacturing flexibility and optimizing industrial demand response services
Paul Kegfai Wan, Matteo Ranaboldo, Alessandro Burgio, Chiara Caccamo & Giuseppe Fragapane
Green Hydrogen Penetration in Steel Industry Operations: A Year-long Modeling Case Study
E3S Web Conf.DOI
Mostafa, Mohamed; Ashabi, Arman; Hryshchenko, Andriy; Bruton, Dr Ken; T.J. O'Sullivan, Dominic
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▶Deliverables (22)
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Technical report: the electricity, dispatching and ancillary services markets in FLEX4FACT countries
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▶Other Results (1)
Periodic Reporting for period 2 - FLEX4FACT (Industrial Cluster FLEXibility platform for sustainable FACTories to reduce CO2 emissions and to enable the Energy Transition)