Digitalization in the natural stone industry implies that the main elements of the value chain are prepared with an innovative set of disruptive technologies and technical skills that, in a period of 5 to 10 years, allow this sector to keep up with the rapid evolution of the market where it competes: the Building Materials sector. To achieve this goal, the current WP was carefully designed to meet the main challenges of the digital transition associated with manufacturing processes, being aligned with the new paradigm of sustainable valorization of raw materials throughout the value chain. This set of technologies aims not only at a valorization of the raw material and waste reduction, but mainly at the use of manufacturing surplus in new materials. That is, to promote, through digitalization, the development of a circular economy strategy, bringing a second life to the products of this industry.

To contribute to the digital transformation of the Natural Stone Industry through new products and processes that add value to the raw material and the value chain.

WP2 will focus on 4 axes:

1. digitalization of the stone associated with visual and technical characteristics that allow, through artificial intelligence, to obtain a valorization of the raw material as close as possible to its extraction origin and consequent improvement of industrial processes;
2. the implementation of a more advanced logistics system, which will be associated with the virtualization process (i.e., digital twins), aiming to achieve more sustainable, collaborative, and intelligent factories in the future;
3. the introduction of the first industrial interoperable IoT hub working in collaboration with an innovative, vendor-independent sensor ecosystem;
4. the introduction of a new generation of stone-based materials (recycled, second-life and advanced composites), together with an advanced 3D digital fabrication process that will allow to obtain and validate the manufacture of new value-added products from some of the main waste and non-valued raw materials.

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• WP 2.1 and 2.2
• WP 2.3
• WP 2.4