IEA IETS Annex Task XVIII
Sub-task 3 - Lessons learned and value created with digitalization

This sub-task 3 is part of the IEA IETS Task XVIII: Digitalization, Artificial Intelligence and Related Technologies for Energy Efficiency and GHG Emissions Reduction in Industry. The main goal of IEA IETS Annex Task XVIII is to stimulate the adoption and digitalization technologies for energy efficiency improvement and GHG emissions reduction in the process industries.

Introduction

Aim

This sub-task aims to drive adoption of IEA IETS Task XVIII results through case studies, business model innovation and results dissemination

Focus

This sub-task focuses on incentives and barriers for related stakeholders, and Evidence based case studies and business models.

Participants

This sub-task is co-led by Zheng Grace Ma and Michelle Levesque, together with the international participants from industries, digital solution providers, and academics.

Introduction

Objectives

Literature review

Review barriers and incentives of industries to adopt and implement digitalization in their business
Review existing business models which have been implemented in industries to investigate the potentials of digitalization in their business.
Review and explore smart data-driven innovation strategies for methods and applications investigated in other Annex initiatives
Prepare match-making pool among digitalization applications, innovation strategies and company business

Use cases

Collect cases of digitalization adoption and implementation in industries from multiple sources
Review and analyze selected cases
Categorize and index cases by industry type, value chain segment, and digitalization application

Recommendations

Conduct interviews and questionnaires to get input from related partners regarding strategies and other related information.
The collected strategies will be evaluated via experts and simulations
Future scenarios and optimized strategies will be review and discussed with sub-task participants.
The recommendation based on future scenarios and optimized strategies will be the input to sub-task 4.

Case collection

Case template for industry

Case template for digital solution provider

If you are interested in contributing your cases, you are welcome to contact Grace or Michelle, or simply fill the case templates here:

Project cases

The cases of digitalization adoption and implementation in industries that IEA IETS Annex Task XVIII sub-task 3 has collected are shown in below. Press them for detailed information.