Development of an Industrial Symbiosis Framework through Digitalization in the Context of Industry 4.0

• Published in: Procedia CIRP 2024, Vol.122, p.515-520
• Main Authors: Iyer, Suveg V, Sangwan, Kuldip Singh, Dhiraj
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Collaborative manufacturing; Digitalization; Industrial Symbiosis; Industry 4.0
• ISSN: 2212-8271; 2212-8271
• DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2024.01.075

Environmental degradation and stringent business regulations require wider sustainable manufacturing practices by bringing the waste/unused resources back into mainstream production. Implementation of collaborative manufacturing – industrial symbiosis – approach is recognized as an effective strategy in the globalized industry 4.0 environment. Industry 4.0 technologies with intertwined supply chain add to the complexity but offer the possibility of breaking the geographical boundaries as the current industrial symbiosis is heavily location dependent. The paper proposes an industrial symbiosis framework based on Industry 4.0 enabling technologies and scalable to global level. A three-level framework is proposed showing the corresponding industry 4.0 technologies at each level. The proposed symbiosis framework and further development of Industry 4.0 technologies-based architecture shows the capability of using the technologies for wider collaboration and faster achievement of sustainable goals. The horizontal integration capability of industrial symbiosis is inferred from the literature. The current industrial understanding and the level of implementation maturity is comprehended from the analysis of digitalization tools and platforms discussed for industrial symbiosis. The work carries forward the industry 4.0 research and its further extension to fifth generation with human resource knowledge sharing at its core.