Green and Smart Coffee Waste Management System Using Industry 4.0 Technologies
- Business Problem: The current system for managing used coffee grounds is inefficient and polluting. It generates high operational costs and greenhouse gas emissions.
- Project Objective: Develop a framework for an ecological, intelligent, and connected coffee waste management system, and propose a business model for this system.
- Proposed Solution: Development of:
- A Digital Twin for the management system based on discrete-event simulation.
- Routing optimization models.
- Reverse logistics network design optimization models.
- Partners: Afmerica, ÉTS, INSEA
- SDG Impacts: Improved coffee waste management, applicable to Afmerica in the city of Montreal as a starting point. Enhanced competitiveness for Afmerica. Reduced emissions from collection trucks. Student training.
- Professors and Students: Soumaya Yacout, Amin Chaabane, Mohamed Ouzineb, Ahmed Sakr, Manar Tayouga, Mohamed Amine Drissi Oudghiri