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Der gesellschaftliche Wandel hin zu mehr Nachhaltigkeit ist in vollem Gange und erfordert eine Neupositionierung der produzierenden Industrie. Durch immer stärker zunehmende wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse über die voraussichtlichen und bereits
sichtbaren Auswirkungen einer bisher unzureichenden Anpassung wächst der Handlungsdruck, der die Regulatorien der Politik verändern und die Spielregeln der Industrie bestimmen wird. Das andauernde Streben nach Wachstum, Kostenoptimierung und Zeiteinsparung überschreitet längst die planetarischen Grenzen unseres Planeten. Ohne enorme Veränderungen des Wirtschaftens hin zu einer einfachen oder doppelten Entkopplung von Wirtschaft und Umwelt ist eine Trendumkehr nicht zu schaffen.
Industrieweit muss Verantwortung übernommen werden, einen Transformationsprozess zur Industrial Sustainability zu vollziehen, in dem die Industrie als Bestandteil eines sozial, ökologisch und wirtschaftlich nachhaltigen Gesamtsystems aktiv zur Gesundheit des Planeten beiträgt. Um Industrial Sustainability zu erreichen, benötigen Unternehmen einen Ordnungsrahmen zur Einordnung ihrer unternehmensweiten Initiativen. Es gilt, das normative Verständnis in konkrete Unternehmensstrategien zu übersetzen und diese in Organisationen zu operationalisieren.
Zu diesem Zweck wurde ein Ordnungsrahmen der Industrial Sustainability entwickelt, der die Komplexität der Problematik greifbar macht und eine methodische Unterstützung für Unternehmen bereitstellt, die individuellen Handlungsfelder zu identifizieren und unternehmensindividuelle Transformationspfade zu erkennen. Dazu zeigen die vier Handlungsfelder Produkte & Dienstleistungen, Management & Organisation, Produktion & Wertschöpfungsnetzwerk, Mitarbeitende &
Kultur auf, in welchen Bereichen der Transformationsprozess betrachtet werden muss. Best-Practice-Ansätze der Reifenhäuser GmbH & Co. KG, des
Siemens AG AI Lab, der AIXTRON SE und des Schaeffler Sondermaschinenbau geben Lesenden Denkanstöße, die Transformation hin zur Industrial Sustainability zu beschreiten.
The European Commission set out the goal of carbon neutrality by 2050, which shall be achieved by fostering the twin transition - sustainability through digitalization. A keystone in this transition is the implementation of a prospering Circular Economy (CE). However, product information required to establish a flourishing CE is hardly available or even accessible. The Digital Product Passport (DPP) offers a solution to that problem but in the current discussion, two separate topics are focused on: its architecture and its application on batteries. The content of the DPP has not been an essential part of the discussion, although access to high-quality data about a product's state, composition and ecological footprint is required to enable sustainable decision-making. Therefore, this paper presents a classification of product data for circularity in the manufacturing industry to emphasize the discussion about the DPP's content. Developed through a systematic literature review combined with a case-study-research based on common operational information systems, the classification comprises three levels with 62 data points in four main categories: (1) Product information, (2) Utilization information, (3) Value chain information and (4) Sustainability information. In this paper, the potential content structure of a DPP is demonstrated for a use case in the machinery sector. The contribution to the science and operations community is twofold: Building a guideline for DPP developers that require scientific input from available real-world data points as well as motivating manufacturers to share the presented data points enabling a circular product information management.
The manufacturing industry consumes 54% of global energy and attributes for 20% of global CO2 emissions, demonstrating the industry’s role as global driver of climate change. Therefore, reducing its carbon footprint has become a major challenge as its current energy and resource consumption are not sustainable. Industrie 4.0 presents a chance to transform the prevailing paradigms of industrial value creation and advance sustainable developments. By using information and communication technologies for the intelligent networking of machines and processes, it has the potential to reduce energy and material consumption and is considered a key contributor to sustainable manufacturing as proclaimed by the European Commission in the term “twin transition”. As organizations still struggle to utilize the potential of Industrie 4.0 for a sustainable transformation, this paper presents a framework to successfully align their own twin transition. The framework is built upon three key design principles (micro level: leverage eco-efficient operations, meso level: facilitate circularity and macro level: foster value co-creation) derived using case study research by Eisenhardt, and four structural dimensions (resources, information systems, organizational structure and culture) based on the acatech Industrie 4.0 Maturity Index. Eleven interconnected areas of action are defined within the framework and offer a holistic and practical approach on how to leverage an organization’s twin transition. Within the conducted research, the framework was applied to the challenge of information quality and transparency required for high-value secondary plastics in the manufacturing industry. The result is a digital platform design that enables information transactions for secondary plastics and establishes a circular ecosystem. This shows the applicability of the framework and its potential to facilitate a structured approach for designing twin transitions in the manufacturing industry.
The quarrying industry, which largely consists of less digitized SMEs, is an integral part of the German economy. More than 95% of the primary raw materials produced are used by the domestic construction industry. Quarrying companies operate demand-oriented with short planning horizons at several locations simultaneously. Due to the low level of digitization and the reluctance to share data, untapped efficiency potential in data-based demand forecasting and capacity planning arises. The situation is aggravated by the fact that SMEs have a heterogeneous mobile machinery so as not to become dependent on individual suppliers, and that transport distances of over 50 kilometers are uneconomical due to high transport costs and low material values. Within the research project PROmining a data-centric platform which improves demand forecast accuracy and multi-site capacity utilization is developed. One of the core functionalities of this platform is an industry-specific demand forecasting model. Against this background, this paper presents a methodology for establishing this forecasting model. To this end, expected demands of secondary industry sectors will be analyzed to improve mid-term volume-forecasting accuracy for the local quarrying industry. The data-centric platform will connect demand forecasting data with relevant key performance indicators of multi-site asset utilization. Following this methodology, operational planning horizons can be extended while significantly improving overall production efficiency. Thus, quarrying businesses are enabled to respond to fluctuating demand volumes effectively and can increase their personnel and machine utilization across multiple quarry sites.