New Trends of Sustainable Digital Transformation in Industry 5.0
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Ecology and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2027 | Viewed by 103
Special Issue Editors
Interests: industrial internet of things; industry 4.0; interoperability/interoperation; industrial protocols; efficiency increasing solutions in the industry; industrial applications and control; SCADA systems
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: artificial intelligence; industry 4.0/5.0; IIoT
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue focuses on the evolving integration of advanced digital technologies within the human-centric, sustainable, and resilient framework of Industry 5.0. Its scope encompasses the convergence of artificial intelligence, cyber–physical systems, the Internet of Things, and digital twins with core Industry 5.0 principles: human–machine collaboration, socio-ethical value creation, and systemic sustainability. The purpose is to compile cutting-edge research and case studies that examine how digital transformation acts as the key enabler for this next industrial paradigm, moving beyond pure efficiency to foster adaptive, socially responsible, and value-driven industrial ecosystems.
This Special Issue will usefully supplement the existing literature by shifting the discourse from the predominant technology-focused Industry 4.0 perspective. It explicitly links technological trends to societal well-being, environmental stewardship, and organizational resilience—addressing a critical gap between technical implementation and its broader human and sustainable impact. By doing so, it aims to provide a more holistic and forward-looking academic foundation for the future of industrial digitalization.
This Special Issue seeks contributions spanning a broad range of topics related but not limited to the following:
- Human–AI collaboration and cobotics in industrial settings
- Digital twins for sustainable production and lifecycle management
- Resilient and reconfigurable supply chains enabled by IIoT and big data
- Social and environmental impacts of Industry 5.0 technologies
- Workforce transformation and skills development in digitalized industries
- Green digital technologies and low-carbon production systems
- Cyber–physical–social systems in industrial ecosystems
- Cybersecurity perspectives on the protocol level
- Digital passport integration
- Advances in combining new sensing technologies and Edge AI
- Distributed processing guided by the Edge
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Adrian Korodi
Dr. Andrei Nicolae
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- digital transformation
- industry 5.0
- sustainable industry
- AI and IoT
- human-machine collaboration
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