| Title | Exploring opportunities and barriers of digital technologies in circular manufacturing systems: An overview and a research roadmap |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 22158 |
| Authors | Denu, M; David, P; Mangione, F; Landry, A |
| Title | Exploring opportunities and barriers of digital technologies in circular manufacturing systems: An overview and a research roadmap |
| Year | 2023 |
| Published | |
| Abstract | The Circular Economy (CE) is being promoted by various economic and political actors as a response to current environmental challenges (climate, biodiversity among others.). However, the CE is struggling to establish its position in manufacturing systems. At the same time, researchers are predicting, particularly at the present time, that emerging digital technologies (DTs) from Industry 4.0 could facilitate the implementation of the CE within a production environment. Research on this subject is in its early stages, and few publications deal with the possible synergy between DTs and the CE. Thus, there are still many gaps in the field where, firstly, the environmental and social aspects are generally disregarded in favour of economic and technical ones and, secondly that few studies provide empirical proof of technological contributions to the setting up of circularity. Indeed, the majority of these studies are based on a collection of managers' points of view and offer perspectives based on questionnaires, interviews or focus groups. The aim of this article is thus to propose a systematic literature review of the opportunities, barriers and enablers of emerging DTs along with the CE focusing on manufacturing systems. In this paper a multi-disciplinary approach has been adopted which takes particular account of the humanities and social sciences. A critical analysis of research gaps and proposed opportunities in the literature both allows the proposal of a tool to guide academics in further studies and provision of empirical evidence. Based on the results of the literature review, a correlation matrix has been drawn up to assist in the search for empirical evidence thus enabling researchers to identify synergies or divergences of emerging DTs and the CE in manufacturing. The purpose of this tool is to provide a basis for setting up experimental plans to provide empirical evidence and encourage practitioners to transform manufacturing systems towards a greater circularity with the help of digital technologies. |
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