TY - JOUR
T1 - Enhancing sustainability and energy efficiency in smart factories
T2 - A review
AU - Meng, Yuquan
AU - Yang, Yuhang
AU - Chung, Haseung
AU - Lee, Pil Ho
AU - Shao, Chenhui
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This research has been supported by a “Scholar-in-Residence” fund from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Funding Information:
This research has been supported by a "Scholar-in-Residence" fund from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 by the authors.
PY - 2018/12/14
Y1 - 2018/12/14
N2 - With the rapid development of sensing, communication, computing technologies, and analytics techniques, today's manufacturing is marching towards a new generation of sustainability, digitalization, and intelligence. Even though the significance of both sustainability and intelligence is well recognized by academia, industry, as well as governments, and substantial efforts are devoted to both areas, the intersection of the two has not been fully exploited. Conventionally, studies in sustainable manufacturing and smart manufacturing have different objectives and employ different tools. Nevertheless, in the design and implementation of smart factories, sustainability, and energy efficiency are supposed to be important goals. Moreover, big data based decision-making techniques that are developed and applied for smart manufacturing have great potential in promoting the sustainability of manufacturing. In this paper, the state-of-the-art of sustainable and smart manufacturing is first reviewed based on the PRISMA framework, with a focus on how they interact and benefit each other. Key problems in both fields are then identified and discussed. Specially, different technologies emerging in the 4th industrial revolution and their dedications on sustainability are discussed. In addition, the impacts of smart manufacturing technologies on sustainable energy industry are analyzed. Finally, opportunities and challenges in the intersection of the two are identified for future investigation. The scope examined in this paper will be interesting to researchers, engineers, business owners, and policymakers in the manufacturing community, and could serve as a fundamental guideline for future studies in these areas.
AB - With the rapid development of sensing, communication, computing technologies, and analytics techniques, today's manufacturing is marching towards a new generation of sustainability, digitalization, and intelligence. Even though the significance of both sustainability and intelligence is well recognized by academia, industry, as well as governments, and substantial efforts are devoted to both areas, the intersection of the two has not been fully exploited. Conventionally, studies in sustainable manufacturing and smart manufacturing have different objectives and employ different tools. Nevertheless, in the design and implementation of smart factories, sustainability, and energy efficiency are supposed to be important goals. Moreover, big data based decision-making techniques that are developed and applied for smart manufacturing have great potential in promoting the sustainability of manufacturing. In this paper, the state-of-the-art of sustainable and smart manufacturing is first reviewed based on the PRISMA framework, with a focus on how they interact and benefit each other. Key problems in both fields are then identified and discussed. Specially, different technologies emerging in the 4th industrial revolution and their dedications on sustainability are discussed. In addition, the impacts of smart manufacturing technologies on sustainable energy industry are analyzed. Finally, opportunities and challenges in the intersection of the two are identified for future investigation. The scope examined in this paper will be interesting to researchers, engineers, business owners, and policymakers in the manufacturing community, and could serve as a fundamental guideline for future studies in these areas.
KW - Big data
KW - Decision-making
KW - Energy efficiency
KW - Smart factory
KW - Smart manufacturing
KW - Sustainability
KW - Sustainable manufacturing
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U2 - 10.3390/su10124779
DO - 10.3390/su10124779
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85058559368
VL - 10
JO - Sustainability (Switzerland)
JF - Sustainability (Switzerland)
SN - 2071-1050
IS - 12
M1 - 4779
ER -