SADEMAR project, a unifying project within the Smart and Sustainable Cities unit

Hervé Barry, Fateh Bélaïd, Benoît Bourel, Adrien Fioen, Véronique Flambard and Marion Lauwers of the FGES are meeting on a joint project and in partnership with the University of Valenciennes and the University of Lille on the development of tools to support the “repair user” based on the implementation of application of the general principles of industrial maintenance of equipment.

The general problem addressed by the project is to answer the following three main questions: – How to remove the technical, sociological, economic and psychological barriers to repair and, more generally, to maintenance. How can the scientific methods required for each step of the detection/diagnosis/repair process be adapted to the characteristics of the capital goods? What value chain should be put in place to integrate the capital goods repair process into a resilient and sustainable business model? – What technical device (digital or non-digital) can enable households and repair actors to remove these barriers, benefit from these methods, and help to promote repair and the circular economy?

Expected impacts and results of the project on the territory:

The expected outcomes (deliverables) are: • An analysis of emerging cross-sectoral ecosystems represented by stakeholder groups and their respective functions; • An analysis of household practices and perceptions on reparation, leading to the development of standard household profiles on reparation; • Proposing sustainable business models for the implementation of circular maintenance/repair logic; • Proof of concept of a repair support system adapted to the different profiles of actors, enabling them to assess the appropriateness of a repair • Proof of concept of a repair support system adapted to the different profiles of actors, enabling them to know how to observe the equipment and characterise its condition will be applied to the selected case study but may be generalised in the manner deduced from the task. These deliverables will be valued by the consortium partners (repair cafés and repair professionals for the development of their business) and local authorities.