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Industry 4.0 Technologies for Sustainable Asset Life Cycle Management

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2022) | Viewed by 13593

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Faculty of Engineering Management, Poznan University of Technology, 61-704 Poznan, Poland
Interests: manufacturing engineering; maintenance technologies; maintenance management; multi-criteria decision-making methods; sustainability performance
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School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Interests: reliability testing; accelerated life testing; reliability estimation; maintenance strategy
Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Machines and Tools, Sumy State University, 40007 Sumy, Ukraine
Interests: manufacturing technology; design engineering; manufacturing systems; product design and development
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Asset life cycle management is not a new concept for industries. Life cycle thinking means that people have a life cycle model in mind that affects the scope of their activities. A life cycle perspective for manufacturing assets is often mentioned in the literature regarding sustainability. This approach aims to understand and analyze individual stages of the asset life cycle, identify potential economic, social, and environmental risk factors and opportunities at each stage, and create possibilities to take advantage of these opportunities and reduce potential risks. In the Industry 4.0 era, manufacturers can monitor assets and make smart decisions in each phase of their life cycle through real-time communication and cooperation with humans, machines, sensors, etc. These technologies can support all stages of ALC through various emergent communication, information, and intelligence technologies. Technologies such as Digital Twin (DT), Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and their respective specialization to industry, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and Cyber-Physical Production System (CPPS), are considered in this Special Issue to increase the effectiveness of asset life cycle management (ALCM).

Topics and themes of this Special Issue can include but are not limited to:

  • Drivers and barriers for the implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies for sustainability in ALCM;
  • Intelligent decision support systems for sustainability in ALCM;
  • Digitalization and Industry 4.0 for supporting the ALCM;
  • Mapping of technologies and capabilities for adoption and implementation of Industry I4.0 for ALCM;
  • Role of competences for successful adoption and implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies for ALCM;
  • Digital product–service system for sustainability in ALCM;
  • The impact of digitalization on ALCM;
  • Modeling and simulation in ALCM;
  • Big data analytics implementation for sustainable ALCM;
  • Digital-twin-driven intelligent ALCM for sustainability;
  • IoT solutions in ALCM for sustainability;
  • Data-driven maintenance and ALCM systems;
  • Risk-based approaches in ALCM;
  • Causes and effects of implementing Industry 4.0 technologies for sustainable ALCM.

Dr. Malgorzata Jasiulewicz-Kaczmarek
Prof. Dr. Katarzyna Antosz
Dr. Chao Zhang
Prof. Dr. Vitalii Ivanov
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • asset life cycle management
  • Industry 4.0 technologies (e.g., IoT, big data, AI, additive manufacturing, robotics)
  • life cycle data for sustainability
  • product-service system
  • servitization
  • operation and maintenance
  • reliability and availability
  • smart maintenance
  • data-driven design
  • digital twin

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Industry 4.0 Technologies for Sustainable Asset Life Cycle Management
by Małgorzata Jasiulewicz-Kaczmarek, Katarzyna Antosz, Chao Zhang and Vitalii Ivanov
Sustainability 2023, 15(7), 5833; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15075833 - 28 Mar 2023
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Asset life cycle management is not a new concept for industries [...] Full article
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Generic Multi-Layered Digital-Twin-Framework-Enabled Asset Lifecycle Management for the Sustainable Mining Industry
by Nabil El Bazi, Mustapha Mabrouki, Oussama Laayati, Nada Ouhabi, Hicham El Hadraoui, Fatima-Ezzahra Hammouch and Ahmed Chebak
Sustainability 2023, 15(4), 3470; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043470 - 14 Feb 2023
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In the era of digitalization, many technologies are evolving, namely, the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence (IA), and digital twin (DT) which has gained significant traction in a variety of sectors, including the mining industry. The use of [...] Read more.
In the era of digitalization, many technologies are evolving, namely, the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence (IA), and digital twin (DT) which has gained significant traction in a variety of sectors, including the mining industry. The use of DT in the mining industry is driven by its potential to improve efficiency, productivity, and sustainability by monitoring performance, simulating results, and predicting errors and yield. Additionally, the increasing demand for individualized products highlights the need for effective management of the entire product lifecycle, from design to development, modeling, simulating, prototyping, maintenance and troubleshooting, commissioning, targeting the market, use, and end-of-life. However, the problem to be overcome is how to successfully integrate DT into the mining business. This paper intends to shed light on the state of art of DT case studies focusing on concept, design, and development. The DT reference architecture model in Industry 4.0 and value-lifecycle-management-enabled DT are also discussed, and a proposition of a DT multi-layered architecture framework for the mining industry is explained to inspire future case studies. Full article
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State Estimation and Remaining Useful Life Prediction of PMSTM Based on a Combination of SIR and HSMM
by Guishuang Tian, Shaoping Wang, Jian Shi and Yajing Qiao
Sustainability 2022, 14(24), 16810; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142416810 - 14 Dec 2022
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The permanent magnet synchronous traction motor (PMSTM) is the core equipment of urban rail transit. If a PMSTM fails, it will cause serious economic losses and casualties. It is essential to estimate the current health state and predict remaining useful life (RUL) for [...] Read more.
The permanent magnet synchronous traction motor (PMSTM) is the core equipment of urban rail transit. If a PMSTM fails, it will cause serious economic losses and casualties. It is essential to estimate the current health state and predict remaining useful life (RUL) for PMSTMs. Directly obtaining the internal representation of a PMSTM is known to be difficult, and PMSTMs have long service lives. In order to address these drawbacks, a combination of SIR and HSMM based state estimation and RUL prediction method is introduced with the multi-parameter fusion health index (MFHI) as the performance indicator. The proposed method’s advantages over the conventional HSMM method were verified through simulation research and examples. The results show that the proposed state estimation method has small error distribution results, and the RUL prediction method can obtain accurate results. The findings of this study demonstrate that the proposed method may serve as a new and effective technique to estimate a PMSTM’s health state and RUL. Full article
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Implementing Sustainable Development Concept: A Typology of Family Firms in Poland
by Ada Domańska, Ewa Więcek-Janka and Robert Zajkowski
Sustainability 2022, 14(7), 4302; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14074302 - 05 Apr 2022
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For companies, sustainable development generally represents a long-term business orientation towards social, economic and environmental well-being. The concept has gained momentum among researchers partly due to the necessity of finding a modern approach to business development that does not deprive the next generation [...] Read more.
For companies, sustainable development generally represents a long-term business orientation towards social, economic and environmental well-being. The concept has gained momentum among researchers partly due to the necessity of finding a modern approach to business development that does not deprive the next generation of the opportunity to meet its own needs. Based on a sample of 333 Polish family firms, three groups of businesses were isolated (via k-means clustering) on the basis of low, medium and high deployment of pro-sustainability initiatives. This paper aims to investigate whether family firms demonstrating divergent levels of sustainable development express between-group differences. Measuring diversity using ANOVA with post hoc testing produced results associating business growth and higher levels of family involvement (e.g., via increased participation of family members from different generations in firm management) with the increased absorption of sustainable solutions and actions. These findings support notions from social identity theory suggesting that groups significantly shape the individual identities of their members. This means that family members inclined to implement sustainable development initiatives are likely to stimulate each other to introduce particular solutions and actions in praxis. Full article
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The Influence of Cork and Manufacturing Parameters on the Properties of Cork–Rubber Composites for Vibration Isolation Applications
by Helena Lopes, Susana P. Silva, João Paulo Carvalho and José Machado
Sustainability 2021, 13(20), 11240; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132011240 - 12 Oct 2021
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The addition of cork to a natural rubber compound and the vulcanization parameters were studied in terms of their influence on the properties of cork–rubber materials. The characterization of different compounds was carried out and included in the determination of mechanical properties related [...] Read more.
The addition of cork to a natural rubber compound and the vulcanization parameters were studied in terms of their influence on the properties of cork–rubber materials. The characterization of different compounds was carried out and included in the determination of mechanical properties related to the application of cork–rubber composites as vibration isolation pads, such as static and dynamic behavior under compressive loading. Statistical methods, such as ANOVA and regression analysis, were used in this study. The results showed that the introduction of cork as an additional filler in the studied rubber compound increased its hardness and static stiffness, while maintaining a similar dynamic behavior to the base rubber compound when subjected to compressive loading. In addition, it was found that increasing the amount and granulometry of cork and lower vulcanization temperatures resulted in stiffer vulcanizates. Materials with higher cork granule contents were found to be affected in their final properties by molding pressure. A study involving the use of linear regression models as a tool to predict or optimize properties related to vibration isolation applications was also developed. Full article
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Trends in Adopting Industry 4.0 for Asset Life Cycle Management for Sustainability: A Keyword Co-Occurrence Network Review and Analysis
by Sachini Weerasekara, Zhenyuan Lu, Burcu Ozek, Jacqueline Isaacs and Sagar Kamarthi
Sustainability 2022, 14(19), 12233; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141912233 - 27 Sep 2022
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With the potential of Industry 4.0 technologies to enable sustainable manufacturing, asset life cycle management (ALCM) has been gaining increasing attention in recent years. This study explores the evolution of Industry 4.0 technology applications to sustainable ALCM from 2002 to 2021. This study [...] Read more.
With the potential of Industry 4.0 technologies to enable sustainable manufacturing, asset life cycle management (ALCM) has been gaining increasing attention in recent years. This study explores the evolution of Industry 4.0 technology applications to sustainable ALCM from 2002 to 2021. This study is based on keywords collected from 3896 ALCM-related scientific articles published in the Web of Science, IEEE Xplore and Engineering Village between 2002 and 2021. We conducted a review analysis of these keywords using a network science-based methodology, which unlike the tedious traditional literature review methods, gives the capability to analyze a huge number of scientific articles efficiently. We built keyword co-occurrence networks (KCNs) from the keywords and explored the network characteristics to uncover meaningful knowledge patterns, knowledge components, knowledge structure, and research trends in the body of literature at the intersection of ALCM and Industry 4.0. The network modeling and data analysis results identify the emerging Industry 4.0-related keywords in ALCM literature and indicate the recent explosion of connectivity among keywords. We found IoT, predictive maintenance and big data to be the top three most popular Industry 4.0-related keywords in ALCM literature. Furthermore, this study maps relevant ALCM keywords in contemporary literature to the nine pillars of Industry 4.0 to help the responsible manufacturing community identify research trends and emerging technologies for sustainability. Full article
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