Exploiting the Digital Twin in the Assessment and Optimization of Sustainability Performances

Barni, Andrea; Fontana, Alessandro; Menato, Silvia; Sorlini, Marzio; Canetta, Luca

doi:10.1109/is.2018.8710554

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“…From the analysis of the main trend about how digitalization affects the product lifetime and the extension of machinery and equipment, 21 papers were selected. The possible role of digitalization on the sustainability concept was already investigated by [96], even though more focalizing on sustainability assessment and optimization of environmental performances. The literature review here presented is on the contrary more focused on its role for CE and life cycle extension.…”

Section: Recyclementioning

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Circular Economy Strategies for Equipment Lifetime Extension: A Systematic Review

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Even if the economy nowadays is still locked into a linear model of production, tighter environmental standards, resource scarcity and changing consumer expectations are forcing organizations to find alternatives to lighten their impacts. The concept of Circular Economy (CE) is to an increasing extent treated as a solution to this series of challenges. That said, the multitude of approaches and definitions around CE and Life Cycle Extension Strategies (LCES) makes it difficult to provide (Small and Medium Enterprise) SMEs with a consistent understanding of the topic. This paper aims at bridging this gap by providing a systematic literature review of the most prominent papers related to the CE and lifetime extension, with a particular focus on the equipment and machinery sector. A taxonomy was used to define and cluster a subset of selected papers to build a homogeneous approach for understanding the multiple strategies used in the industry, and the standards in maintenance and remanufacturing strategies. As a final research step, we also propose a Strategy Characterization Framework (SCF) to build the ground for the selection of the best strategy to be applied for production equipment life cycle extension on several industrial use cases.

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“…The number of relevant case studies is still limited 106–108 . In contrast to a variety of use cases that primarily focus on the demonstration of interoperability, root cause analysis, product quality monitoring and service‐oriented business models, 118 119,129 Barni et al developed a DT‐based LCA framework that represents a semi‐modular, modular, and scalable sustainability assessment and optimization tool 22 . While the authors clearly focused on interoperability of sustainability performance data, collection of relevant data and LCA assessment, the approach did not address the other requirements of sustainable ecology‐oriented industrial production.…”

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“…[106][107][108] In contrast to a variety of use cases that primarily focus on the demonstration of interoperability, root cause analysis, product quality monitoring and service-oriented business models, 118 119,129 Barni et al developed a DT-based LCA framework that represents a semi-modular, modular, and scalable sustainability assessment and optimization tool. 22 While the authors clearly focused on interoperability of sustainability performance data, collection of relevant data and LCA assessment, the approach did not address the other requirements of sustainable ecology-oriented industrial production. Nevertheless, the authors note that research in this field is only just beginning and outline three essential steps to bring DT and sustainability together: intensification of automated sustainability data collection, DT data management and smart sustainability service analysis.…”

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“…Consequently, a number of recent publications present analysis and use cases that primarily link existing methods and thought patterns that are commonly associated with sustainability to the DT concept and outline technical challenges of a microeconomic implementation. Recent examples of these bottom‐up approaches include a DT‐based life cycle assessment (LCA) framework, [ 22 ] the conceptual basics of a DT concept for sustainability evaluation of railway station buildings, [ 23 ] an implementation model applicable in the context of asset life cycle management, [ 24 ] a method for DT‐driven product design [ 25 ] as well as a DT‐driven green material optimal selection model. [ 26 ] He and Bai present a substantial review of bottom‐up‐approaches related to DT‐driven sustainable intelligent manufacturing and summarize their findings in a specific framework.…”

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Sustainable production and the role of digital twins–Basic reflections and perspectives

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Waltersmann

Sauer

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Sustainable production is essential for the future of the global economy. Despite the publication of its baseline vision over 30 years ago and the resulting diversity of interpretations and subdisciplines in engineering and social sciences, the progress of the approach in industrial practice remains marginal. This is mainly due to the fact that the discipline has not yet succeeded to realize the magnitude of the rethinking necessary of its very own perception as a whole. Existing definitions of sustainable production presented to date are thus only partly consistently derived from the baseline concept. Meanwhile, digitalization provides an increasing number of technologies that offer a new perspective on sustainable production. This especially applies to the concept of digital twins. Recent studies, thus, address their role in the context of sustainable production by analyzing its contribution to existing sustainability related methods as well as technical challenges on a microeconomic level (bottom‐up approach). Although these approaches provide concrete requirements for technical deployment, it is highly questionable how they will contribute to sustainable production as a whole. In this paper, we choose a top‐down approach to discuss the role of digital twins in the context of sustainable production. Based on fundamental reflections on the baseline concept of sustainability, we advocate a reorientation of production within the framework of planetary boundaries. Thereupon, we discuss the role of digital twins and digital threads and provide a number of requirements that future R&D needs to address for a future sustainability‐oriented data‐driven monitoring and regulation of production.

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“…From this perspective, processes dominated by smart entities will reduce material waste and energy consumption. This has been demonstrated for a number of emerging technologies including the application of digitalization (e.g., digital twins) for energy efficiency and sustainable performance improvement [164,165], cloud manufacturing for discrete part and process industry [166][167][168], and the potential for additive manufacturing to improve material and energy efficiency [169,170].…”

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Industrial Sustainability: Reviewing the Past and Envisioning the Future

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Skerlos

Haapala

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Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering

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Society's consumption of natural resources and the impact of industrial activities on the environment has gained increasing attention over the last several decades. This paper provides a historical perspective on the origins of the environmental movement and its connection to industrial systems. Then, recent research related to product design, process improvement and change, green manufacturing planning, and the circular economy are described. With respect to product design, topics such as material selection and component light-weighting are considered. For process-related research, efforts such as operation changes and equipment design for reduced energy consumption are discussed. For manufacturing planning, new developments in process planning and production scheduling are highlighted that consider environmental performance. The concept of circular economy is examined critically, with particular emphasis placed on closing materials loops via recycling and remanufacturing. The paper concludes with a discussion of challenges and opportunities to achieve the goal of industrial sustainability.

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Exploiting the Digital Twin in the Assessment and Optimization of Sustainability Performances

Cited by 49 publications

References 27 publications

Circular Economy Strategies for Equipment Lifetime Extension: A Systematic Review

Circular Economy Strategies for Equipment Lifetime Extension: A Systematic Review

Sustainable production and the role of digital twins–Basic reflections and perspectives

Industrial Sustainability: Reviewing the Past and Envisioning the Future

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