1. Efficiency Performance Operations Symbiosis Greet Van Eetvelde
Ghent University

2. EPOS history
Oct 2013

3. EPOS industries 5 global process industries  ArcelorMittal  Cemex
 INEOS
 Omya
 Veolia

4. EPOS consortium 5 global process industries 5 highly R&I minded SMEs
from 5 key relevant sectors:
steel, cement, chemicals, minerals, engineering
5 highly R&I minded SMEs
IT, techs, business models, footprinting, comms
2 excellent science institutes
UGent, EPFL

5. EPOS clusters 5 demo clusters 2 district clusters
3 industrial clusters

6. EPOS objectives build cross-sectorial knowledge
find cluster opportunities
develop innovative industrial symbiosis platform
validate cluster opportunities
enable cross-sectorial symbiosis
provide wide range of technological and organisational solutions
draw business models & validate cost reduction

7. EPOS drive reinforce competitiveness in EU industry
by making businesses and operations
more efficient,
more cost-effective,
more competitive and
more sustainable
across process sectors

8. EPOS impact technological virtual sector profiles
map of cross-sectorial IS potential
technological and organisational
industrial and district clusters
bottom-up, case studies
simple & single EPOS management tool for IS
incl. footprinter
prospection for IS standard

9. EPOS impact socio-economic jobs & growth in industries ànd SMEs
training of engineers & EPOS user club
generic business scenarios
outreach via associations and local communities
potential for 15% cost reduction in EII
calculated economic & sustainability gains
(EPOS footprinter)