Expected impact of industry 4.0 technologies on sustainable development: A study in the context of Brazil's plastic industry
| Autor: | Guilherme Brittes Benitez, Lisianne Brittes Benitez, Matheus Becker da Costa, Jones Luís Schaefer, Ismael Cristofer Baierle, Elpidio Oscar Benitez Nara, Leonardo Moraes Aguiar Lima do Santos |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Sustainable development
Environmental Engineering Industry 4.0 Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry 020209 energy Triple bottom line Big data Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Environmental economics 01 natural sciences Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Sustainability 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Environmental Chemistry Performance indicator business Emerging markets 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Sustainable Production and Consumption. 25:102-122 |
| ISSN: | 2352-5509 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.spc.2020.07.018 |
| Popis: | The impact of Industry 4.0 technologies on sustainability based on economic, environmental, and social aspects is gaining increasing attention from researchers. In this study, we investigated these impacts using the Triple Bottom Line perspective for sustainable development. A sustainability-oriented model for evaluating the influence of Industry 4.0 technologies on sustainable metrics is proposed. This model analyses the impact of Industry 4.0 technologies on several key performance indicators related to sustainable development. The model was tested in the plastics industry which has a high potential of Industry 4.0 technological aggregation in emerging economies. A fuzzy TOPSIS multi-criteria method was used to classify Industry 4.0 technologies, identifying those with the strongest and weakest impacts on sustainable development. As a result, we show that the internet of things, cyber-physical systems, sensors, and big data implementation are drivers for sustainable development. We also evidenced that these technologies are associated with substantial positive impacts on economic metrics. However, there was a much smaller positive influence on environmental and social metrics, suggesting an imbalance on the Triple Bottom Line perspective for the plastics industry. In addition, we found negative impacts from robots on job creation and low influence from cloud computing and system integration technologies for sustainable development. Based on these findings, our work contributes to the decision-making process by aiding managers, process engineers, and stakeholders in understanding and estimating the expected impacts from Industry 4.0 technologies on economic, environmental, and social aspects for sustainable development. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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