Design knowledge modeling of complex products based on the Living systems theory

Wang, G. X.; Luo, Kuo-Shu; Pei, D. M.; Yan, Yue; Huang, Shurong; Shang, X. W.

doi:10.1109/ieem.2016.7798192

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“…The proposal is an innovative contribution to the development of CBM in the context of the emerging paradigm of CE, digitalization of businesses and companies, and the aim of mitigating the metabolic rift from the early stages in an aggregate level as it is the business value chain. The quantification of this model could be incorporated into the holarchies establishing the relations and flows between entities with quantitative methods such as ecological relations [98,175], living system theory in the different levels of granularity for the modeling of the knowledge [176][177][178], contextualizing material, energy and information of the process and use of sustainable indicators for each of the entities [179]. Another aspect to consider is the incorporation of open innovation with fractal criteria (repeated at different scales) in Eco-Holonic Architecture, and agile and Lean principles in the business [180,181].…”

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Eco-Holonic 4.0 Circular Business Model to Conceptualize Sustainable Value Chain towards Digital Transition

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The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize a circular business model based on an Eco-Holonic Architecture, through the integration of circular economy and holonic principles. A conceptual model is developed to manage the complexity of integrating circular economy principles, digital transformation, and tools and frameworks for sustainability into business models. The proposed architecture is multilevel and multiscale in order to achieve the instantiation of the sustainable value chain in any territory. The architecture promotes the incorporation of circular economy and holonic principles into new circular business models. This integrated perspective of business model can support the design and upgrade of the manufacturing companies in their respective industrial sectors. The conceptual model proposed is based on activity theory that considers the interactions between technical and social systems and allows the mitigation of the metabolic rift that exists between natural and social metabolism. This study contributes to the existing literature on circular economy, circular business models and activity theory by considering holonic paradigm concerns, which have not been explored yet. This research also offers a unique holonic architecture of circular business model by considering different levels, relationships, dynamism and contextualization (territory) aspects.

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