Developing and Harnessing the Potential of SMEs for Eco-efficient Flexible Production

Schlegel, Andreas; Langer, Tino; Pütz, Matthias

doi:10.1016/j.promfg.2017.04.028

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“…The resource and energy efficiency can be related to the circular economy, a mindset that manufacturing industries tend to adopt to reintroduce waste as raw material and transform their business into circular chains [3,130,131]. It can also be related with less consumption of energy and/or resource from more efficient production and delivery [106,117,132].…”

Section: Implications From the Interconnection Within The Tblmentioning

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Environmental Sustainability of Digitalization in Manufacturing: A Review

2020

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The rapid development and implementation of digitalization in manufacturing has enormous impact on the environment. It is still unclear whether digitalization has positive or negative environmental impact from applications in manufacturing. Therefore, this study aims to discuss the overall implications of digitalization on environmental sustainability through a literature study, within the scope of manufacturing (product design, production, transportation, and customer service). The analysis and categorization of selected articles resulted in two main findings: (1) Digitalization in manufacturing contributes positively to environmental sustainability by increasing resource and information efficiency as a result of applying Industry 4.0 technologies throughout the product lifecycle; (2) the negative environmental burden of digitalization is primarily due to increased resource and energy use, as well as waste and emissions from manufacturing, use, and disposal of the hardware (the technology lifecycle). Based on these findings, a lifecycle perspective is proposed, considering the environmental impacts from both the product and technology lifecycles. This study identified key implications of digitalization on environmental sustainability in manufacturing to increase awareness of both the positive and negative impacts of digitalization and thereby support decision making to invest in new digital technologies.

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Environmental Sustainability of Digitalization in Manufacturing: A Review

2020

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“…Jørsfeldt and Decker (2017) as well as Jun et al (2017) promote the concept of digitally enabled platforms generating entrepreneurial opportunities for smart SMEs but up to now such platforms do not really exist. Bakkari and Khatory (2017) as well as Schlegel et al (2017) encourage SMEs in their works to put a certain emphasis on Industry 4.0 strategies in the integration of concepts for a more sustainable and ecological manufacturing environment. At this time, the concepts proposed are still on a very rough and abstract level without any clear and tangible recommendations about how to achieve the proposed goals.…”

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SME 4.0: The Role of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the Digital Transformation

Matt

Rauch

2020

Industry 4.0 for SMEs

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“…The centre of the cloud-manufacturing model is always knowledge (Tao et al, 2011) with its layering approach that supports each manufacturing steps, always relying on an appropriate platform: from design up to maintenance and integration. Finally, in (Schlegel et al, 2017) the new approach «Linked Factory» developed by Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology is discussed. This approach relies on a common hub sharing knowledge and data.…”

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An approach to support Industry 4.0 adoption in SMEs using a core-metamodel

Dassisti

Giovannini²,

Merla³

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Despite the recent growing interest in the "factory smartness", still there are only few small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that adopt effective Industry 4.0 (I4.0) solutions. The main reasons can be related to the lack of formalized processes, lack of ICT knowledgeas well as low-cost commercial systems.To cope with these issues, this work focuses on the development and the application of an approach to provide SMEs with a multipurpose , modular, knowledge-based system: the main aim is to provide a modular and extensible system that can be incrementally implemented without requiring huge initial investments. This system is based on a core design-knowledge meta-model. From this core meta-model, multi-purposes modules can be built: in this paper, we present modules for the traceability support, the AR-powered assembly support, themachine-tomachine control and the data analysis support.

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Developing and Harnessing the Potential of SMEs for Eco-efficient Flexible Production

Cited by 13 publications

References 3 publications

Environmental Sustainability of Digitalization in Manufacturing: A Review

Environmental Sustainability of Digitalization in Manufacturing: A Review

SME 4.0: The Role of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the Digital Transformation

An approach to support Industry 4.0 adoption in SMEs using a core-metamodel

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