Digital technologies, methods and tools towards sustainable manufacturing: Does Industry 4.0 support to reach environmental targets?

Sebastian Thiede

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2021.02.001

Digital technologies, methods and tools towards sustainable manufacturing: Does Industry 4.0 support to reach environmental targets?

Sebastian Thiede^*

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Abstract

Sustainability and digitalization are both major change drivers for manufacturing companies. There are also strong interactions in between, e.g., through digital technologies, methods and tools that aim to improve the environmental performance of manufacturing related activities. Thereby also additional efforts for establishing information and communication technologies (ICT) need to be taken into account. Against this background, a reference framework is introduced in this paper based on the necessary factory system understanding and the identification of relevant fields of action. Furthermore, methodological support is provided in order to foster the development of digital solutions that actually lead to environmentally related improvements.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	601-606
Number of pages	6
Journal	Procedia CIRP
Volume	98
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2021.02.001
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	28th CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, LCE 2021 - Online conference, Jaipur, India Duration: 10 Mar 2021 → 12 Mar 2021 Conference number: 28 https://lce2021.in/

Keywords

Communication technology
Industry 4.0
Information
Sustainable manufacturing

UN SDGs

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Digital technologies, methods and tools towards sustainable manufacturing: Does Industry 4.0 support to reach environmental targets?

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