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In the extant literature, circular economy (CE) is considered a driver for sustainable development of the manufacturing sector, being it an industrial paradigm aiming at regenerating resources. CE is transferred to manufacturing companies through the adoption of different Circular Manufacturing (CM) strategies (e.g., recycling, remanufacturing, etc.). Nowadays, manufacturers are struggling to implement these strategies to limit their resource consumption and pollution generation. To enable their adoption, the extant literature unveiled the importance to control along the entire value chain different types of resource flows (i.e., material, energy, and information). Nevertheless, while for material and energy management some advancements were achieved, information management and sharing remains one of the major barriers in adopting these strategies. The present work, through a systematic literature review, aims to identify the relevant information and data required to support the manufacturer’s decision process in adopting and managing the different CM strategies to pursue the transition towards CM. Furthermore, based on the results obtained, this research proposes a theoretical framework. It elucidates the four main areas to be managed by manufacturers in adopting CM strategies and it provides to the manufacturer an overview of what should be updated and upgraded inside the company to embrace CM strategies.
Federica Acerbi; Claudio Sassanelli; Sergio Terzi; Marco Taisch. A Systematic Literature Review on Data and Information Required for Circular Manufacturing Strategies Adoption. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2047 .
AMA StyleFederica Acerbi, Claudio Sassanelli, Sergio Terzi, Marco Taisch. A Systematic Literature Review on Data and Information Required for Circular Manufacturing Strategies Adoption. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (4):2047.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFederica Acerbi; Claudio Sassanelli; Sergio Terzi; Marco Taisch. 2021. "A Systematic Literature Review on Data and Information Required for Circular Manufacturing Strategies Adoption." Sustainability 13, no. 4: 2047.
Nowadays, due to the limited availability of resources, the adoption of sustainable practices is gaining importance, especially while dealing with the manufacturing sector that is considered one of the most resource greedy sectors. To cope with this issue, a new sustainable and industrial economy, called “circular economy” arisen. The diffusion of this economy can be eased by the advance management of data and information. Nevertheless, from the extant literature emerged some criticalities regarding information management flows while dealing with circular economy strategies adoption. Indeed, the present work aims to first identify the main criticalities in information management while adopting circular economy principles, and second to investigate the decisions, and the related data and information required to make these decisions, that manufacturers have to undertake to enable the circular product life cycle management. To achieve this goal, the present work relies on the scientific literature. This choice enables to grasp the widespread knowledge developed by scholars about these concepts, by individualizing the main decisions that should be taken by the company internal stakeholders, to manage circular products, being affected by external stakeholders’ behaviours and decisions along product life cycle. Therefore, this work aims to support circular product life cycles management and, this objective has been achieved through the development of a data classification model.
Federica Acerbi; Marco Taisch. Towards a Data Classification Model for Circular Product Life Cycle Management. Collaboration in a Hyperconnected World 2020, 473 -486.
AMA StyleFederica Acerbi, Marco Taisch. Towards a Data Classification Model for Circular Product Life Cycle Management. Collaboration in a Hyperconnected World. 2020; ():473-486.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFederica Acerbi; Marco Taisch. 2020. "Towards a Data Classification Model for Circular Product Life Cycle Management." Collaboration in a Hyperconnected World , no. : 473-486.
Circular economy (CE) has been recently considered one of the most promising sustainable strategies for industrial companies, aiming at reducing resources consumption, extending resources life cycle and making recirculate resources within the life cycle stages. The transition from a linear economy towards a circular one requires the internal reorganization of companies without limiting the focus on product life cycle management, also considering how to appropriately manage internal assets, both physical, e.g. machines, and social, e.g. workforce. Indeed, the objective of the present work is to investigate the adoption of CE in industrial asset management (AM), thus focusing on the physical assets. A systematic literature review has been performed with a two-fold goal: firstly, to envisage the synergies between CE and AM and, secondly, to identify existing research gaps. Through this review, it was possible to notice the shared life cycle orientation of the two theories but the still embryonic adoption of it in the AM for a circular aim. Indeed, the major focus in the AM theory, from a CE perspective, is on the role of maintenance activities to extend asset life cycle during its Middle of Life stage while CE adoption at the Beginning of Life of industrial assets is still lagging. This limits a life cycle orientation which would boost industrial companies’ sustainability. In order to encounter policymakers’ expectations these two theories should be furtherly integrated.
Federica Acerbi; Adalberto Polenghi; Irene Roda; Marco Macchi; Marco Taisch. Exploring Synergies Between Circular Economy and Asset Management. Collaboration in a Hyperconnected World 2020, 695 -702.
AMA StyleFederica Acerbi, Adalberto Polenghi, Irene Roda, Marco Macchi, Marco Taisch. Exploring Synergies Between Circular Economy and Asset Management. Collaboration in a Hyperconnected World. 2020; ():695-702.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFederica Acerbi; Adalberto Polenghi; Irene Roda; Marco Macchi; Marco Taisch. 2020. "Exploring Synergies Between Circular Economy and Asset Management." Collaboration in a Hyperconnected World , no. : 695-702.
Circular economy (CE) is considered one of the drivers pushing towards sustainable development. Indeed, this economy is defined as an “industrial economy that is regenerative and restorative by intention and design” and thus, it boosts responsible consumption and production which is one the sustainable goals promoted by policymakers. In particular, from the extant literature emerged that to pursue the transition towards CE, manufacturers adopt different CE strategies. Their implementation implies to have a clear vision about stakeholders involved along product life cycle and about the implications that are encountered during the decision process of the producer thus, by its companies’ functions. Indeed, all the actors involved should operate concurrently for a single and common direction. For this reason, the objective of the present work is to investigate the vertical information flow within a manufacturing company at strategic, tactical and operational levels while adopting CE strategies to appropriately manage product lifecycle. The paper objective is pursued through a literature review on Scopus together with practitioners’ interviews. The outcome is the development of a conceptual framework to support the decision process. The framework structures the information flow for adopting CE across the three levels above mentioned. Indeed, the main finding of this research is the key role of information as a facilitator for the adoption of CE strategies in manufacturing.
Federica Acerbi; Marco Taisch. Information Flows Supporting Circular Economy Adoption in the Manufacturing Sector. Collaboration in a Hyperconnected World 2020, 703 -710.
AMA StyleFederica Acerbi, Marco Taisch. Information Flows Supporting Circular Economy Adoption in the Manufacturing Sector. Collaboration in a Hyperconnected World. 2020; ():703-710.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFederica Acerbi; Marco Taisch. 2020. "Information Flows Supporting Circular Economy Adoption in the Manufacturing Sector." Collaboration in a Hyperconnected World , no. : 703-710.
This paper aims to investigate how the sustainable development is pursued by manufacturing companies according to the extant literature, especially by focusing on Circular Economy (CE) paradigm that is considered one of the major drivers for sustainability. Indeed, this research aims to study how CE principles have been adopted in the manufacturing sector leading towards the creation of Circular Manufacturing (CM) strategies. To achieve this goal, a systematic literature review has been conducted. Scopus and Web of Science are the scientific databases used for the review process. The 215 papers selected for the review were analysed through a theoretical framework developed by the authors. This framework enabled to individualize the research streams and the perspectives through which CE strategies adopted by manufacturers have been studied in the extant scientific literature. These research streams are technologies, and evaluation methods and models. Besides, both of these two are studied under two different lenses since they both are mutually considered supportive tools to shift or to maintain a circular system. To conclude, one of the major contributions of this literature review is to provide a clearer definition of CM and to figure out how CM strategies have been addressed by academics in the scientific literature, with the final aim to reduce the confusion emerged in the extant literature around this concept. Last, this review elucidates some scientific literature gaps and suggests future research directions.
Federica Acerbi; Marco Taisch. A literature review on circular economy adoption in the manufacturing sector. Journal of Cleaner Production 2020, 273, 123086 .
AMA StyleFederica Acerbi, Marco Taisch. A literature review on circular economy adoption in the manufacturing sector. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2020; 273 ():123086.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFederica Acerbi; Marco Taisch. 2020. "A literature review on circular economy adoption in the manufacturing sector." Journal of Cleaner Production 273, no. : 123086.
Manufacturers are called to cope with always more complex challenges. Among all, the reduced amount of resources available in our planet forecasts a dramatic future scenario. Circular Economy (CE) is one of the most promising strategies. In view of the increasing interest in both Lean Thinking and CE, a first systematic literature review (SLR) has been performed to investigate the interlink between these two concepts. It unveiled common grounds and gaps, as the limited number of studies dealing with knowledge management (KM). Considering the new value obtained by knowledge, a second SLR has been conducted to study the application of KM as support for CE. Researchers explored KM application on all the three levels of CE paradigm (micro, meso and macro), almost ever highlighting the strategic role of technological systems to exploit data management under a circular perspective. Directions for future researches are proposed as main contribution of this paper.
Federica Acerbi; Claudio Sassanelli; Sergio Terzi; Marco Taisch. Towards a Data-Based Circular Economy: Exploring Opportunities from Digital Knowledge Management. Proceedings of International Conference on Big Data, Machine Learning and Applications 2020, 331 -339.
AMA StyleFederica Acerbi, Claudio Sassanelli, Sergio Terzi, Marco Taisch. Towards a Data-Based Circular Economy: Exploring Opportunities from Digital Knowledge Management. Proceedings of International Conference on Big Data, Machine Learning and Applications. 2020; ():331-339.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFederica Acerbi; Claudio Sassanelli; Sergio Terzi; Marco Taisch. 2020. "Towards a Data-Based Circular Economy: Exploring Opportunities from Digital Knowledge Management." Proceedings of International Conference on Big Data, Machine Learning and Applications , no. : 331-339.
The rapid change that is affecting the society together with the rising of new technologies are impacting the manufacturing sector as well. Moreover, this change has also an impact on the skills that operators and managers should master. Companies, on their own, must be always updated in order to keep high their competitive advantage. For these reasons, we carried out this study which aims at searching for a new methodology to assess the current level of companies’ workforce in terms of skills needed for taking advantage from the Industry 4.0 paradigm. Starting from an analysis of skills assessment methods, we created DREAMY4Skills, a skills 4.0 assessment model focused on the specific job profile within a company operating in the manufacturing sector. This model is based on a maturity model which enables to make companies be aware of their current status in terms of skills and thus it helps companies in implementing a transformation path to pursue a continuous improvement strategy. This work has two purposes, on one side we would like to have a model useful in practical terms to enable the skills 4.0 assessment held by the workforce, on the other side there is the scientific purpose which is to create another small brick in the literature.
Federica Acerbi; Silvia Assiani; Marco Taisch. A Methodology to Assess the Skills for an Industry 4.0 Factory. Security Education and Critical Infrastructures 2019, 520 -527.
AMA StyleFederica Acerbi, Silvia Assiani, Marco Taisch. A Methodology to Assess the Skills for an Industry 4.0 Factory. Security Education and Critical Infrastructures. 2019; ():520-527.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFederica Acerbi; Silvia Assiani; Marco Taisch. 2019. "A Methodology to Assess the Skills for an Industry 4.0 Factory." Security Education and Critical Infrastructures , no. : 520-527.