Professional refurbishment has already been implemented primarily for electrical appliances (e.g. mobile phones, laptops). Professional refurbishment is also of interest for office furniture, as although it is generally designed to serve for a long time, it is often discarded after a short period of use. The RefurMO project is therefore investigating which framework conditions are required for the professional refurbishment of office furniture to extend the product life cycle and conserve resources.
In this project, workshops with companies in the food industry will discuss methods of digitization of production processes and associated processes in quality assurance and maintenance, and possibilities for their practical application will be shown. A special focus is on artificial intelligence methods and their potential for process improvement. In workshops, the companies can exchange ideas with each other and with experts, as well as visit projects that have already been implemented in the companies.
The FAMOUS (Freight Access Management for Optimizing Urban Space) project aims to evaluate legislative and technical measures for freight traffic control in cities using a comprehensive calculation and simulation model. For this purpose, the GÜMORE freight transport model is used in combination with a small-scale model for fine distribution in the urban area and the proven passenger transport model from ITS Vienna Region for access management issues in cities. In addition to traffic metrics, the reduction in greenhouse gases (CO2), energy consumption and pollutant emissions are also calculated and evaluated. In addition to the Verkehrsverbund Ost (VOR), BOKU Vienna, and hh2pro, project partners include the cities of Vienna and Wiener Neustadt.