Developing key performance indicators for monitoring sustainability in the ceramic industry: The role of digitalization and industry 4.0 technologies

Selecting sustainability indicators for smart product design based on industry 4.0/5.0 technologies: analysis and proposal of a methodological framework

“…Filtering is based on reading the Title, Abstract or Keywords since 2013. Each search string has been categorized to represent the following After filtering results S1: ("smart product" OR "intelligent product" OR "smart design" OR "smart product development") AND ("industry 4.0" OR "industry 5.0" OR "digitalization" OR "digital twin" OR "digital threads") Smart product and Industry 4.0 137 (science direct) 332 (scopus) 11 articles: (Rauch et al, 2016;Nunes et al, 2017;Zheng et al, 2019;Romero et al, 2020;Zheng and Hong Lim, 2020;Boßlau, 2021;Cao et al, 2021;Sallati and Schützer, 2021;Carrera-Rivera et al, 2022;Ghobakhloo et al, 2022;Ehemann et al, 2023) S2: ("smart product" OR "intelligent product" OR "smart design" OR "smart product development") AND ("sustainability indicators" OR "sustainable indicators" OR "environmental impact") Smart product and Sustainability indicators 11 (science direct) 26 (scopus) 4 articles: (Tchertchian and Millet, 2017;Liu et al, 2018;Riedelsheimer et al, 2020;Song et al, 2021) S3: («sustainable indicators" OR "sustainability indicators") AND ("industry 4.0" OR "industry 5.0" OR "digitalization" OR "digital twin" OR "digital threads") Sustainability indicators and Industry 4.0 21 (science direct) 54 (scopus) 12 articles: (Joung et al, 2013;Chaim et al, 2018;Ndukwu et al, 2020;Enyoghasi and Badurdeen, 2021;Glatt et al, 2021;Gunduz et al, 2021;Kabzhassarova et al, 2021;Orošnjak et al, 2021;Riedelsheimer et al, 2021;Cetina-Quiñones et al, 2023;Contini et al, 2023;Longo et al, 2023;Ross et al, 2023) S4: ("smart product" OR "intelligent product" OR "smart design") AND ("sustainability" OR "sustainable indicators" OR "environmental impact") AND ("industry 4.0" OR "digitali...…”

“…Almost all the selected articles consider more than one sustainability indicator, with sustainability integration ranging from one life-cycle stage based on one indicator to multiple criteria in several stages. Researchers such as (Contini et al, 2023) have developed a "digital sustainability twin" to monitor sustainability in the ceramics industry, enabling informed decisions based on Key Performance Indicators (KPI). (Kabzhassarova et al, 2021) developed a checklist that identifies economic, environmental, and social indicators during production, highlighting the importance of technological integration for a sustainable, digitized enterprise.…”

Do Manufacturing Companies’ Key Performance Indicators Support Circularity? – An Explorative Study on Swedish Manufacturing Companies

“…which KPI:s to include, they have been studied previously wherein both circularity and KPI:s have been emphasised, thus confirming that they are valid documents to study. For example, sustainability report have been scrutinized in order to explore climate mitigation in terms of CO2 emissions and energy use [20], to explore the adaptation of circularity practices within multi-national companies [6], and to evaluate KPI:s for the ceramic industry [8].…”

“…As KPI:s create incentive for the employees in companies, they can support necessary ideation that in return supports companies in their circularity endeavour [1]. How KPI:s can be used to support sustainability and circularity has been pointed out as a grand challenge [1,4], and whereas previous studies have looked into if and how the KPI:s of companies from different sectors and levels of companies support sustainability or not [8,16,41], there is still a gap related to if and how KPI:s can support circularity [1]. To ensure alignment towards circularity, it becomes important to first define what KPI:s should be used on a company level to point out the strategic direction of the company [34] which can later be applied throughout the company on lower levels of aggregation [30].…”

“…To ensure alignment towards circularity, it becomes important to first define what KPI:s should be used on a company level to point out the strategic direction of the company [34] which can later be applied throughout the company on lower levels of aggregation [30]. To explore how companies work with sustainability and circularity, recent literature has employed exploratory research approaches utilizing sustainability reports to gain insights into companies' practices [8,31]. Such an approach can thus be deemed relevant to also explore how manufacturing companies work with KPI:s and if they support circularity or not.…”