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- Title
Industry 4.0 to Accelerate the Circular Economy: A Case Study of Electric Scooter Sharing.
- Authors
Pham, Trang Thi; Kuo, Tsai-Chi; Tseng, Ming-Lang; Tan, Raymond R.; Tan, Kimhua; Ika, Denny Satria; Lin, Chiuhsiang Joe
- Abstract
To achieve sustainability, the circular economy (CE) concept is challenging traditional linear enterprise models due to the need to manage geographically distributed product life cycle and value chains. Concurrently, Industry 4.0 is being used to bring productivity to higher levels by reducing waste and improving the efficiency of production processes via more precise real-time planning. There is significant potential to combine these two frameworks to enhance the sustainability of manufacturing sectors. This paper discusses the fundamental concepts of Industry 4.0 and explores the influential factors of Industry 4.0 that accelerate the sharing economy in the CE context via a case of electric scooters in Taiwan. The result shows Industry 4.0 can provide an enabling framework for the sharing economy in CE implementation.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; INDUSTRY 4.0; SCOOTERS; VALUE chains; PRODUCT life cycle; SHARING economy; MANUFACTURING processes
- Publication
Sustainability (2071-1050), 2019, Vol 11, Issue 23, p6661
- ISSN
2071-1050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/su11236661