Digital technologies (DTs), such as the Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence, or
blockchain, are considered as enablers for a more sustainable and circular economy. So far …

Both Industry 4.0 and sustainability have gained momentum in the academic, managerial
and policy debate. Despite the relevance of the topics, the relation between Industry 4.0 and …

Circular Economy (CE) has been one of the most transformational tendencies for the past
years. What seemed to be one more organizational hype, is now appearing as a global …

Circular economy (CE) is a term that exists since the 1970s and has acquired greater
importance in the past few years, partly due to the scarcity of natural resources available in …

The circular economy may help firms to maximize the value of their material resources and
minimize the overall resource use, waste, pollution and emissions of their business …

Traditionally, production control on construction sites has been challenging, and still
remains challenging. The ad-hoc production control methods that are usually used, most of …

As business conditions change rapidly, the need for integrating business and technical
systems calls for novel ICT frameworks and solutions to remain concurrent in highly …

Sustainability is becoming more and more important as a decision attribute in the
manufacturing environment. However, quantitative metrics for all the aspects of the triple …

This study proposes a decision framework based on industry 4.0 initiatives within circular
economy implementation to evaluate and select sustainable suppliers. In this context …

Direct digital manufacturing (DDM) is a combination of product modeling and manufacturing
technology that directly converts digital models to physical objects without the need for …