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opportunities. More than 250 experts from<br />
academia and industry were present or<br />
followed online. Targeted application areas<br />
included manufacturing, electronics,<br />
energy systems, transport and mobility<br />
and health care systems. The audience<br />
enjoyed innovative case studies and<br />
practices, visionary papers on paradigm<br />
change as well as contributions covering<br />
theoretical and experimental research.<br />
During the workshops, the introduction of<br />
a digital product passport and industrial<br />
symbiosis to promote the (re)use of material<br />
resources between different industrial<br />
players were discussed. A third workshop<br />
dealt with sustainable engineering<br />
education. The student teams CORE,<br />
Formula Electric Belgium and the Solar<br />
Team were invited to explain how their<br />
sustainable projects are integrated into<br />
engineering education.<br />
Assembly and disassembly<br />
The central theme of the 9th Conference<br />
on Assembling Technologies & Systems<br />
was 'Flexible Assembly and Disassembly<br />
Systems'. More than 100 participants<br />
followed or presented the latest<br />
developments and trends in the wide field<br />
from manual towards fully automated<br />
(dis)assembly technologies. In 7 keynotes<br />
and 73 technical sessions, topics such as<br />
flexible and reconfigurable (dis)assembly<br />
concepts and systems, human-robot<br />
interaction and collaboration, handling<br />
technologies, mobile and multi-robot<br />
systems, operator support and ergonomics<br />
were discussed.<br />
The joint sessions with LCE<strong>2022</strong> covered<br />
topics such as design for assembling and<br />
disassembling, disassembling technologies,<br />
Prof. Wim Dewulf<br />
© Kobe Michiels<br />
re- and de-manufacturing, and auto -<br />
mation solutions for lightweight structure<br />
manufacturing.<br />
Industrial Forum<br />
On Wednesday 6 April, an animated panel<br />
discussion on the sustainable factory of<br />
the future took place with Martin Röhrig<br />
(Airbus), Prof. Jef Peeters (KU Leuven),<br />
Prof. Christoph Herrmann (TU Braunschweig)<br />
and Dirk Torfs (Flanders Make).<br />
As mentioned earlier, the participants in<br />
both conferences included many engineers<br />
and specialists from the manufacturing<br />
industry. The close relationship between<br />
academia and industry was also made<br />
visible during an industrial forum on 7 April.<br />
About ten companies showed off their<br />
innovative assembly and disassembly<br />
technologies.<br />
Prof. Karel Kellens, Chair of the CATS<br />
Conference, looks back with satisfaction.<br />
“Both in format and in content the<br />
conference was a success. Thanks to<br />
the hybrid format, many researchers<br />
were able to participate and even give<br />
presentations. In terms of content,<br />
the joint day with the LCE Conference<br />
provided significant added value. It was a<br />
first but one that is worth repeating.<br />
Perhaps CATS and LCE will meet again in<br />
Karlsruhe (Germany) in 2024”.<br />
Yves Persoons<br />
cats<strong>2022</strong>.eu<br />
lce<strong>2022</strong>.eu<br />
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