Investigating the Effects of Smart Production Systems on Sustainability Elements

Waibel, Markus; Steenkamp, L.P.; Moloko, N.; Oosthuizen, Gert Adriaan

doi:10.1016/j.promfg.2017.02.094

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“…The total environmental improvement seems to be unobvious, yet the findings prove the theoretical prediction of environmental benefits of a smart factory (Shrouf et al., ; Waibel et al., ; Wang et al., ).…”

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confidence: 56%

“…The total environmental improvement seems to be unobvious, yet the findings prove the theoretical prediction of environmental benefits of a smart factory (Shrouf et al, 2014;Waibel et al, 2017;Wang et al, 2016b). Figure 4b presents the endpoint environmental impacts of the two models, where the results have not been weighted due to lack of objective weighting factors.…”

Section: Analysis Of Categorized Impactsmentioning

confidence: 57%

“…The possible scenarios affect the LCI, and would thereby alter the LCA outcomes. Here we estimate the uncertainty arising from these changes, which are triggered by the further development of product modularity, considering the following three scenarios: additional 5% ( Scenario 1 ), 10% ( Scenario 2 ), and 15% ( Scenario 3 ) of the highly customized parts are redesigned as standard modules. Including auxiliary systems and equipment : The auxiliary equipment and information systems that facilitate the realization of a smart factory, are also consuming energy and resources needed for energy production, resulting in extra environmental burdens (Waibel et al., ). The indirect energy consumption is associated with a number of processes, products, and is allocated to the processes according to the work of Seow and Rahimifard ().…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Including auxiliary systems and equipment : The auxiliary equipment and information systems that facilitate the realization of a smart factory, are also consuming energy and resources needed for energy production, resulting in extra environmental burdens (Waibel et al., ). The indirect energy consumption is associated with a number of processes, products, and is allocated to the processes according to the work of Seow and Rahimifard ().…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Theoretically, introduction of smart factories is supposed to provide immense opportunities of promoting economic, environmental, and social sustainability (de Man & Strandhagen, ; Stock & Seliger, ). Yet, to the best of our knowledge, there are only few qualitative statements concerning environmental performance of smart factories, which mainly focus on illustrating potential improvements in resource and energy efficiency (Waibel, Steenkamp, Moloko, & Oosthuizen, ; Wang et al., ). Therefore, experts have urged the research community to investigate the environmental performance of smart factories (Davies, Coole, & Smith, ).…”

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Can smart factories bring environmental benefits to their products?: A case study of household refrigerators

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Smart factories have been widely adopted as a new manufacturing paradigm, in which the state‐of‐the‐art technologies are introduced to improve relevant processes. Yet, whether smart factories affect the environmental performance remains unknown. In this article, we examine the environmental performance of a smart refrigerator factory by comparing the environmental impacts of its product to a similar model that is produced in a traditional fashion. This article quantifies and verifies the theoretically predicted impacts of this smart factory on the individual processes. Though the overall differences in the two models are quite minor, we find that this smart factory can notably reduce the values of most impact categories associated with the parts and refrigerator production; the reduction in the value of climate change is 33%. Owing to higher material efficiency—raw material savings in this smart factory contributes to the greatest reductions in most categorized impacts—the contribution to the reduction of climate change is 39%. Yet, all categorized impacts of procurement and delivery are increased due to product personalization and direct delivery. The results of sensitivity analysis show that promoting product modularity, adopting clean energy such as wind power can further improve the environmental performance of the selected refrigerator. The introduction of auxiliary equipment and systems slightly increases the value of each category; yet their impacts are negligible compared to their benefits as facilitating production efficiency. Based on the quantitative results, recommendations are given to improve the environmental performance of smart factory, including optimizing current strategies and promoting horizontal and end‐to‐end integration.

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Section: Analysis Of Categorized Impactsmentioning

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Section: Methods and Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methods and Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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This research contributes to the debate about the relevance of Industry 4.0 technologies in improving environmental performance in the manufacturing industry. We employed a qualitative–quantitative approach in which 19 Italian operations managers were interviewed and 260 managers responded to an online questionnaire. The effects of various technologies were ranked using ordinal regression. Comments and suggestions gave context to the quantitative results. Sensors, radio‐frequency identification, artificial intelligence and analytics were found to be most relevant in improving environmental performance, whereas simulation software contributed moderately. Additive manufacturing, cobots, robots, automated mobile robots and automated guided vehicles had a negative effect, augmented reality had no effect and other technologies indirectly affected environmental performance. We also found a lack of knowledge and application as well as scepticism about technologies such as artificial intelligence and augmented reality. Finally, there was concern about the disposal of electrical and electronic waste produced by these technologies.

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Investigating the Effects of Smart Production Systems on Sustainability Elements

Cited by 156 publications

References 5 publications

Can smart factories bring environmental benefits to their products?: A case study of household refrigerators

Can smart factories bring environmental benefits to their products?: A case study of household refrigerators

Industry 4.0 technologies in the manufacturing sector: Are we sure they are all relevant for environmental performance?

Smart Distributed Ledger Technologies in Industry 4.0: Challenges and Opportunities in Supply Chain Management

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