Assessing relations between Circular Economy and Industry 4.0: a systematic literature review

By Paolo Rosa, Claudio Sassanelli, Andrea Urbinati, Davide Chiaroni, Sergio Terzi. International Journal of Production Research, 2019

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Industry 4.0 (I4.0) and Circular Economy (CE) are undoubtedly two of the most debated topics of the last decades. Progressively, they gained the interest of policymakers, practitioners and scholars all over the world. Even if they have been usually described as two independent research fields, there are some examples presenting overlaps between these topics, represented by hybrid categories like Circular I4.0 and Digital CE. Starting from these two perspectives, an innovative framework both highlighting the links between I4.0 and CE and unveiling future research fields has been developed. Basing on one of the two perspectives, results show as it is possible to enhance a set of different relations. Depending on a dedicated area of either CE or I4.0 it is possible to see the prevalence of some I4.0 technology than others. However, the influence of I4.0 technologies on CE is always verified.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

Synergy between Circular Economy and Industry 4.0: A Literature Review (2021, background): “0 Reference SCM TD MAN BM SUS PS BD IA SIM IS IOT CYB CC AF AR [1] X X X [2] X X [3] X [4] X X [5] X X [6] X X [7] X X [8] X X X [9] X X X [10] X X X X”
The smart circular economy: A digital-enabled circular strategies framework for manufacturing companies (2020, background): “However, there is a gap between theory and practice (Rosa et al., 2020): research is presently in a pre-paradigmatic stage, as frameworks that support linking DTs and the CE have started to appear only recently, and no dominant framework has emerged as yet (Askoxylakis, 2018; Bianchini, Pellegrini,…”
Towards Circular Economy in the Agri-Food Sector. A Systematic Literature Review (2020, methodology): “, data-driven analysis and mathematical and computer optimization models) could also be integrated [57].”