| Title |
Industry 4.0 for sustainable manufacturing: Opportunities at the product, process, and system levels |
| ID_Doc |
18360 |
| Authors |
Enyoghasi, C; Badurdeen, F |
| Title |
Industry 4.0 for sustainable manufacturing: Opportunities at the product, process, and system levels |
| Year |
2021 |
| Published |
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| DOI |
10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.105362 |
| Abstract |
Limited resource availability and the negative environmental and societal impacts of traditional manufacturing have motivated the need for sustainable manufacturing. Product, process, and system integration, considering the interdependent sustainability impacts, is vital for sustainable manufacturing. Industry 4.0 and its constituent technologies offer significant potential to advance manufacturing competitiveness. Can the implementation of more sustainable manufacturing practices be facilitated or enhanced by using Industry 4.0 technologies? Current literature fall short in comprehensively addressing this question. Most treat either Industry 4.0 as a single technology, or sustainable manufacturing very broadly, without an in-depth consideration of the impacts on products, processes, and systems. To address this gap, this paper presents a comparative analysis examining individual Industry 4.0 technologies and their potential impact on sustainable manufacturing. A framework based on product, process, and systems sustainability metrics clusters is applied to examine these impacts. The findings reveal that literature is still limited in identifying opportunities for sustainability improvement at the different levels using Industry 4.0 technologies; the impact on many criteria related to product, process, or system level sustainability due to Industry 4.0 technologies have not yet been examined. The comparative analysis, and other literature, are used to provide further directions for future research and opportunities on leveraging Industry 4.0 technologies for more sustainable manufacturing. The implications for industry by way of offering a framework to identify potential solutions to enhance sustainable manufacturing performance using Industry 4.0 technologies are also discussed. |
| Author Keywords |
Industry 4.0; Sustainable products; Sustainable processes; Sustainable systems |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED); Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) |
| EID |
WOS:000608645900031 |
| WoS Category |
Engineering, Environmental; Environmental Sciences |
| Research Area |
Engineering; Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
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