Conference  /  March 11, 2026  -  March 13, 2026

CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering

The CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering is an international conference focusing on sustainable production systems and the circular economy. Trade visitors, researchers, and industry representatives gain insights into current developments in areas such as circular business models, digital product passports, life cycle assessment, sustainable design, resilient supply chains, and Industry 4.0/5.0.

Against the backdrop of global demands for sustainability, resource efficiency, and climate-neutral production, the conference offers a comprehensive overview of trends and research results in life cycle engineering and connects participants from various industrial sectors and academia.

The topics of the conference include the following:

  • Absolute sustainability
  • Circular business models
  • Circular economy
  • Closed-loop supply management
  • Cyber-physical systems
  • Data collection and management
  • Design for environment/sustainability
  • Digital product passport, Data space
  • Disassembly, remanufacturing and recycling
  • Industrial symbiosis
  • Industry 4.0/5.0
  • Life cycle assessment
  • Life cycle design
  • Machine learning and AI
  • Net zero manufacturing
  • Net zero transition
  • Product life cycle management
  • Resilient supply chains
  • Sustainable manufacturing
  • Sustainable materials
  • Water-energy nexus

CIRP LCE 2026 includes an industry tour, plenary lectures, parallel sessions, and networking formats. Fraunhofer IST will be represented by chairing a session on the topic of circular economy and giving three presentations on sustainable battery and hydrogen systems..

 

Chair of the session:

Thursday, March 12, 2026, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Circular Economy

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Herrmann

 

Presentations:

Friday, March 13, 2026, 11:20 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Towards Climate-Neutral Factories: Agent-Based Simulation to Decarbonize Factory Systems with Renewable Energy

Christoph Imdahl Habel

 

Friday, March 13, 2026, 1:50 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Green Hydrogen for Net-Zero Manufacturing – A Case Study for a German Chemical Production Site

Florian Scheffler

 

Friday, March 13, 2026, 4:10 p.m. – 6:10 p.m.

Comparing Large Language Model Methodologies for Life Cycle Inventory Data Extraction

Kira Fischer