Energy efficiency in industry 4.0 using SDN

Lins, Theo; Oliveira, Ricardo Augusto Rabelo

doi:10.1109/indin.2017.8104841

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“…A very limited number of respondents declared considering Industry 4.0 as an opportunity to improve their companies. This evidence differs from the findings of previous studies [82], indicating environmental opportunities as relevant drivers for a tendency towards Industry 4.0 [20,28]. Another relevant study on this field showed with a higher degree of details that green production in general, as well as energy and resource management, resulted as high priority within the surveyed sample of companies [22].…”

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The Advantages of Industry 4.0 Applications for Sustainability: Results from a Sample of Manufacturing Companies

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Far from being exclusively related to economic considerations, the advantages of Industry 4.0 applications also include environmental and social concerns. An increasing amount of scientific publications relate the implementation of the fourth industrial revolution paradigm to sustainability. Several studies reported opportunities of Industry 4.0 implementation particularly to the environmental dimension of sustainability, e.g., through improved logistics streams and lowered waste from production. The present research aims at providing evidence on whether manufacturing companies consider Industry 4.0 implementation as an advantage contributing to environmental and social sustainability in terms of lower environmental impact of production, as well as higher physical relief for workers and flexibility of work organisation. The results were an attempt to study such relations with company sizes, industry sectors, turnover and self-assessed levels of digitalization varying. The sample encompasses 65 companies located in the Marche region (Italy). The results show that overall the perception of economic opportunities prevail, while the association of a beneficial impact of Industry 4.0 on environmental sustainability is rather low across companies, regardless of their size, turnover and digital level. As for the statistically significant variables, the results suggest a strong association of the size and the digital level to specific Industry 4.0 related advantages, referring to the social and economic dimension of sustainability, respectively.

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“…Correspondingly, Big Data Analytics refers to techniques adopted to analyze and acquire intelligence from big data [39], and cloud computing is "a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction" [40]. Cognition properly presents the acquired knowledge to expert users and supports the correct decision to be taken [36], which is similar to what VR and AR aim for as a decision support tool [9,41]. Configuration is the feedback level from cyber space to physical space and acts as "supervisory control to make machines self-configure and self-adaptive" [36], similar to what IAI aims for "to make the hidden problems in an industrial system explicit, then managing and avoiding them while they remain hidden" [42].…”

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“…Real-time data monitoring tracks the consumption of resources (like energy and water) and waste generation, and then responds to production management [6,9,65], enabling green manufacturing. Santos et al (2019) show a dramatic reduction in the energy bill of €500 per year reached by the "plug&glean" implementation to track energy consumption [53].…”

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“…Overall, it could be argued that environmental benefits can be aligned to economic sustainability benefits easier than to social sustainability, as more papers are showing correlations between the first two mentioned pillars. This phenomenon can be explained from the lean-green [53,78] and resource and energy efficiency perspectives [9,77,80]. Lean-green management has been introduced as an effective way to improve environmental and economic efficiency in manufacturing [130], because the principle of eliminating waste from lean has mainly positive impacts on improving environmental performance [53].…”

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“…At the same time, Industry 4.0 can provide plentiful opportunities for environmental sustainability beyond economic benefits [4]. IoT enables real-time monitoring and obtains energy consumption data, thus optimizing and saving energy in manufacturing [8,9]. AM allows customized design and production, contributing to resource and waste reduction [10,11].…”

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Environmental Sustainability of Digitalization in Manufacturing: A Review

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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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Energy efficiency in industry 4.0 using SDN

Cited by 18 publications

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The Advantages of Industry 4.0 Applications for Sustainability: Results from a Sample of Manufacturing Companies

The Advantages of Industry 4.0 Applications for Sustainability: Results from a Sample of Manufacturing Companies

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