Special Issue "Industry 4.0 and Sustainable Production Management"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Waste and Recycling".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Paulo Peças
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IDMEC, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: sustainable manufacturing and operations management; agile and lean manufacturing; Industry 4.0
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Prof. Dr. Inês Ribeiro
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IDMEC, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: sustainability; manufacturing; life cycle assessment; cost modeling
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Dr. António J. Baptista
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Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (INEGI), Porto, Portugal
Interests: product and system development; complex system descriptive modelling; multi-dimensional and agnostic performance framework design; sustainability and circular economy
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Prof. Dr. Samuel de Oliveira Moniz
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CEMMPRE - Centre for Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Processes, University of Coimbra, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rua Luís Reis Santos, 3030-788 Coimbra, Portugal
Interests: simulation; industrial engineering; process systems engineering; operations management; operations research
Prof. Dr. Uwe Götze
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Chair of Management Accounting and Control, Chemnitz University of Technology, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany
Interests: management accounting and control; investment appraisal; sustainability assessment and management
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The manufacturing world is under a revolution towards the twin transition, an idea reinforced in the New Industrial Strategy for Europe, where it is underlined that the twin ecological and digital transitions will affect every part of our society, economy, and industry.

This twin transition demands the adaptation of well-established methods and approaches, and even the development of innovative approaches fostering the design and implementation of technologies and business models which are based on digitization and intended to enhance sustainability.

This Special Issue will comprise a selection of papers developing and deploying approaches, methods, and tools to support the transformation and evolution of sustainable production systems under an Industry 4.0 context.

Research papers should present and discuss, among others,

  • Methods and tools to foster and support sustainable production systems under an Industry 4.0 context;
  • Strategies and guidelines regarding the evolution of lean, agile, six sigma, and other approaches towards the twin transition;
  • Frameworks and approaches integrating the two dimensions of the twin transition in the production management realm (lean and green, eco-efficiency, etc.);
  • Data-driven models and tools fostering the integration of simulation, optimization, data analytics and data mining in the daily work of sustainable production management systems;
  • Case studies regarding the implementation of sustainable production systems, including the topics above (cases using extended reality are welcome, involving, by order of preference, assisted reality, augmented reality, and virtual reality).

These topics can be addressed by review papers proposing guidelines for design and/or management frameworks or approaches, by research papers demonstrating the benefits and limitations of the proposed strategies or methods, or by case study papers exploring and validating the applications of tools and models.

Papers selected for this Special Issue will be subject to a rigorous peer-review procedure with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications.

Acknowledgements: The Guest Editors would like to thank to FCT, through IDMEC, under LAETA, project UIDB/50022/2020; the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) through a grant of the Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalisation of Portugal 2020 Partnership Agreement (PRODUTECH4S&C, POCI-01-0247-FEDER-046102) and (PRODUTECHSIF, POCI-01-0247-FEDER-024541).

Prof. Dr. Paulo Peças
Prof. Dr. Inês Ribeiro
Dr. António J. Baptista
Prof. Dr. Samuel de Oliveira Moniz
Prof. Dr. Uwe Götze
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Industry 4.0
  • production management
  • sustainable production
  • twin transition
  • lean manufacturing

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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