Digitalisation for Water Sustainability: Barriers to Implementing Circular Economy in Smart Water Management

Liu, Qinglan; Yang, Longjian; Yang, Miying

doi:10.3390/su132111868

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“…Future research needs also to focus on finding solutions for the barriers and challenges of DTs to CE. Previous papers have elaborated on the barriers in various industries, such as those by Lobo et al (2022), Abdul‐Hamid et al (2020), and Liu et al (2021). They provide the basis for seeking practical solutions.…”

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“…Others link DTs to other concepts, such as lean manufacturing (Chen et al, 2020; Ciliberto et al, 2021) and sustainable development (Furstenau et al, 2020; Liu et al, 2020; Sun et al, 2021) and then link these concepts to CE. Awan et al (2021) focus on IoT tools and implementation practices, while another stream looks at the implementation challenges (Liu et al, 2021; Lobo et al, 2022).…”

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A framework of digital technologies for the circular economy: Digital functions and mechanisms

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Digital technology is regarded as providing a promising means of moving production and consumption towards the circular economy. However, it is still unclear which functions of digital technologies are most useful to improving circularity, and how these functions could be used to enhance different circular economy strategies. This paper aims to address this knowledge gap by conducting a systematic literature review. After examining 174 papers, creating 782 original codes and 259 secondround codes, the study identifies 13 critical functions of digital technologies which are most relevant to circular economy strategies. The paper then proposes a framework which reveals seven mechanisms of how these digital functions can enhance different circular economy strategies. The framework also reveals which combinations of the digital functions and circular economy strategies have already been studied extensively as well as where there may be gaps. This indicates which digital functions are more mature in terms of possible implementation for circular economy as well as what missing links there are in the empirical and theoretical research. The study advances the synergies between digital technologies and the circular economy paradigm through the lens of digital functions. The proposed framework and mechanisms build a theoretical foundation for future research, and we highlight five research areas for further studies. This study also provides a structured way for managers to explore the appropriate digital functions for their CE strategies, so as to identify required digital technologies and new value creation through digital functions.

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“…Only this process will allow to obtain data that in turn allows the implementation of stream analysis in the manufacturing process. Digitisation of processes (Gajdzik et al 2021 ; Kordel et al 2021 ; Liu et al 2021 ; Akazi et al 2020 ; Pirocă et al 2021 ) in a manufacturing business is employed increasingly often and forms one of the key factors of introducing Industry 4.0 (Miśkiewicz et al 2020 ; Gajdzik et al 2021 ; Stawiarska 2021 ; Pirocă et al 2021 ). Also, robotisation is a prerequisite element for implementing Industry 4.0 in business (Botlíková et al 2020 ; Siderska 2021 ; Marinoudi et al 2021 ).…”

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Systemic analysis of a manufacturing process based on a small scale bakery

2022

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The main aim of the article is to present two new innovative concepts of reliability of a functioning manufacturing system in the process of making bread in small-scale bakeries. Reliability is understood as one of the representations of an operator acting on specific streams in time t o to t. One of these represents the global reliability of a system as a function of parallel action of all the streams of the system in time t o to t and is denoted as P g (t) . The second representation of reliability is a scalar value, P ss It shows a new function of global reliability of a manufacturing process as a product of system stream reliability. In order to plot the flow of the manufacturing process’s global reliability function, we need to perform detailed calculations, computations, and analysis of the differences of individual values in real time, as well as plan an algorithm of the flow of system streams. This needs a lot of effort, translating however, to a detailed picture of the process. In the analysed example, measurements and research revealed an important increase of the value of reliability in a transition from a traditional to a robotised bakery. The article also presents a new concept of the reliability of a technological process, based on the analysis of relations of elements of the following streams: energy, matter, information, time, and finances. It shows the method of specifying streams and the method for defining the reliability of important and supportive relations. Important relations between stream elements are defined as having the reliability value of one in time. Supportive relations bear the reliability within a continuum between zero and one. Important relations are designated based on research, experience, and knowledge. Stream systemic reliability P ss is a scalar value, i.e. a number from the continuum between zero and one. The P ss value characterises failure-free operation of the whole system. Its average value in the normative time t n expresses the efficiency of the manufacturing system. The value P ss is a quotient of the number of important relation and the sum of important and supportive relations. The formula for P ss shows the method of optimising the process through the increasing of the number of important relations between the input stream components. The concept has been applied to study the efficiency of operation of a small-scale bakery. Systemic analysis of a bakery allows for important increase in the reliability of baking bread if robotisation has been implemented. The concept of systemic-stream reliability P ss may be applied to analyse the efficiency of any technological process and optimisation of any manufacturing process.

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“…The authors have revised the literature and summarised the methods used for the studies under the thematic of digitalisation (Table 3). Systematic models Delphi method [88] In Table 3, the authors have examined which qualitative methods and models have been used for the research of digitalisation by other authors. Table 3 summarises and provides a review of the literature.…”

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Digitalisation as the Indicator of the Evidence of Sustainability in the European Union

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2022

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Digitalisation provides access to an integrated network of information that can benefit society and businesses. However, the evidence of sustainability in business is less researched. In our paper, by building up the research approach, we address the relevant gap by investigating how sustainable development goals represent the interrelationship between digitalisation and sustainability. Such research is particularly important because understandings of digitalisation and sustainability determine how different actors, including business managers and policymakers, act in response to those imperatives to develop future employees skills starting from school age. Following a multi-method approach, we have combined our analysis into two steps examining the relationship between digitalisation and sustainability. Building digital networks, business managers and policy makers using digital means can create some unique opportunities to strategically address sustainable development challenges for the United Nations Targets (SDG) to ensure higher productivity, education, and an equality-oriented society. This point of view describes the potential of digitalisation for society and businesses of the future. The authors revise the links between digitalisation and sustainability in the European Union countries by using data available in Eurostat and UNECE public databases. The two-stage methodology for the identification of the relationship between ICT and sustainability is used in the paper and a linear regression model is applied. The results showed tiers with five SDGs, focusing on business, and all these tiers are fixed in the constructed equations for each SDG. The recommended solution is statistically valid and proves the novelty of this research. Among digitalisation indicators, only mobile-cellular subscriptions and fixed-broadband sub-basket prices in part do not affect researched sustainable development indicators.

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Digitalisation for Water Sustainability: Barriers to Implementing Circular Economy in Smart Water Management

Cited by 25 publications

References 78 publications

A framework of digital technologies for the circular economy: Digital functions and mechanisms

A framework of digital technologies for the circular economy: Digital functions and mechanisms

Systemic analysis of a manufacturing process based on a small scale bakery

Digitalisation as the Indicator of the Evidence of Sustainability in the European Union

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