The research project "Bionics and AI for Sustainable Integration of Product Development for Resource-Efficient Lightweight Construction" (German akronym: BIKINI), funded by the BMWK and launched in October 2021, was successfully completed after three years of productive collaboration in Bremerhaven with our project partner, the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI).
The developed software prototypes offer the possibility to make statements about economic and ecological sustainability in the early phases of the product development process, thus supporting decision-making in every phase of the product life cycle. This ranges from comparing and selecting the most balanced design variant to choosing the optimal manufacturing process depending on the current product life cycle phase.
After presenting the results to the project sponsor Jülich (PTJ) and the final coordination of the project's conclusion, the consortium was given a tour of the newly established Technikum of the AWI.
We thank all partners in the consortium for the productive collaboration and look forward to future cooperations.
