Product Circularity Assessment Methodology

Angioletti, Cecilia Maria; Rocca, Roberto La

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-66926-7_47

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“…Li et al 2015) or implementing smart manufacturing practices (Kusiak 2018) (see Table 5). In rare cases, experts focused on exploitation of BDA for other reasons, such as improving disassembly sequence planning (Marconi et al 2018), considering recycling issues during product design (Lin 2018), assessing cost (Angioletti, Despeisse, and Rocca 2017) x (Bassi 2017) x (Bloomfield and Borstrock 2018) x (Clemon and Zohdi 2018) x x (Dutta et al 2001) x (Giurco et al 2014) x (Lahrour and Brissaud 2018) x (Le, Paris, and Mandil 2017a) x (Le, Paris, and Mandil 2017b) x (Leino, Pekkarinen, and Soukka 2016) x (Ma et al 2018) x (Mandil et al 2016) x (Mattos Nascimento et al 2018) x (Millard et al 2018) x (Minetola and Eyers 2018) x x (Müller et al 2018) x (Santander et al 2018) x (Sauerwein, Bakker, and Balkenende 2017) x (Sauerwein and Doubrovski 2018) x (Schmidt et al 2017) x (Sheng Yang et al 2017) x (Syed-Khaja, Perez, and Franke 2016)…”

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“…Regarding the I4.0 perspective, many contributions assessed the potential support offered by key enabling technologies to companies (Ge and Jackson 2014;Isaksson, Hallstedt, and Öhrwall Rönnbäck 2018;He, Xu, and Xu 2010;Gorissen, Vrancken, and Manshoven 2016). However, only in a very few cases was the environmental benefit (the circularity level) reachable through the adoption of I4.0-based technologies assessed (Angioletti, Despeisse, and Rocca 2017;Lahrour and Brissaud 2018;van Schaik and Reuter 2016). Starting from these premises, this paper has several aims: (i) to investigate how I4.0 technologies influence the CE and (ii) to classify these relations through an innovative framework.…”

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Assessing relations between Circular Economy and Industry 4.0: a systematic literature review

Rosa

Sassanelli

Urbinati

et al. 2019

International Journal of Production Research

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Industry 4.0 (I4.0) and Circular Economy (CE) are undoubtedly two of the most debated topics of the last decades. Progressively, they gained the interest of policymakers, practitioners and scholars all over the world. Even if they have been usually described as two independent research fields, there are some examples presenting overlaps between these topics, represented by hybrid categories like Circular I4.0 and Digital CE. Starting from these two perspectives, an innovative framework both highlighting the links between I4.0 and CE and unveiling future research fields has been developed. Basing on one of the two perspectives, results show as it is possible to enhance a set of different relations. Depending on a dedicated area of either CE or I4.0 it is possible to see the prevalence of some I4.0 technology than others. However, the influence of I4.0 technologies on CE is always verified.

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Section: Big Data and Analyticsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing relations between Circular Economy and Industry 4.0: a systematic literature review

Rosa

Sassanelli

Urbinati

et al. 2019

International Journal of Production Research

459

280

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“…Circular production systems need to monitor environmental impacts and provide these as feedback to the processing stages [32,33]. Industrial symbiosis may be used to proactively exchange resources such as raw materials, agricultural harvests, wastes, energy, and water for communities of businesses in close proximity, including reverse supply chains consisting of suppliers, plants, distributors, retailers, customers, collection centers, refurbishing centers, and manufacturing so that the actions are consistent with ecological principles [33][34][35][36][37].…”

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A Circularity Indicator Tool for Measuring the Ecological Embeddedness of Manufacturing

2021

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Circularity in manufacturing is critical to reducing raw material usage and waste. Ecological embeddedness examines circular relationships intended to benefit both economic actors and the natural environment. By understanding circular relationships in the value chain, manufacturers can formulate strategies that are eco-effective. This work develops and validates an original circularity tool to measure the ecological embeddedness of manufacturers using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. The tool is tested on process manufacturers selling products in the United Kingdom. The three main results are that the tool is useful and comprehensive (87% of users), enables simple comparisons with competitors, and identifies weaknesses in strategies related to the five dimensions connecting manufacturers, consumers, and the environment: understanding, realising, utilising, negotiating, and reclaiming. Manufacturers may use the tool to improve their ecological embeddedness, and sector-based circularity levels may be established for policy development. The novelty of the tool is in the use of ecological relationships to support achievement of a circular economy.

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“…A product circularity assessment methodology has been proposed based on four principles: use less, absorb circularities, generate circularities, and use renewable resources [22]. However, although energy, materials, and auxiliary resources are considered, the environmental impact is viewed only in relation to traditional alternatives and there is no consideration of the open-loop recycling of waste and byproduct treatment.…”

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Ecologically Embedded Design in Manufacturing: Legitimation within Circular Economy

2020

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Circular economy has gained momentum since the 1970s as a regenerative alternative to the traditional linear economy. However, as the circular economy has gone mainstream, circularity claims have become fragmented and remote, consisting of indirect contributions, such as the life extension of other products and the use of waste as feedstock, without addressing the actual cause of waste. The present study aims to identify the strategic motivations of manufacturers participating in the circular economy and the corresponding relationship to ecological embeddedness. This paper explores the circular economy in manufacturing through existing products on the market and their relationship to eco-design by considering the product, packaging, and its production. Legitimacy is found to be a decisive factor in whether the type of circular economy strategy manufacturers adopt yields ecological benefits. The results from the case study of products clearly indicate the superiority of ecological embeddedness, as a form of circularity supporting strong sustainability. Finally, a novel template is proposed to support the implementation of ecological embeddedness in manufacturing.

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Product Circularity Assessment Methodology

Cited by 14 publications

References 11 publications

Assessing relations between Circular Economy and Industry 4.0: a systematic literature review

Assessing relations between Circular Economy and Industry 4.0: a systematic literature review

A Circularity Indicator Tool for Measuring the Ecological Embeddedness of Manufacturing

Ecologically Embedded Design in Manufacturing: Legitimation within Circular Economy

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