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Achieving Circular and Efficient Production Systems: Emerging Challenges from Industrial Cases

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As the need for more responsible production and consumption grows quickly, so does the interest in the concepts of eco-efficiency and circularity. To make swift progress towards sustainability, solutions must be developed and deployed at scale. It is therefore critical to understand the challenges faced by industry to accelerate the uptake of best practices for circular and efficient production systems. This paper presents the emerging issues from three industrial pilots in an on-going collaborative project. We discuss and suggest further work around crucial questions such as: How to deploy circular solutions from lab to industrial scale? How can digitalization support efficient circular processes?

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The authors wish to acknowledge Magnus Johnson, Ernst Siewers, Henrik Jilvero, Märta Bergfors, Farshid Harandi, Rasmus Johansson, Johanna Reimers, Geoffrey Blanc, and Johan Kronholm for their contribution to the project. With thanks to the Swedish innovation agency Vinnova and the Strategic Innovation Programme Produktion2030 (funding number 2019-00787). The work was carried out within Chalmers’ Area of Advance Production; the support is gratefully acknowledged.

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Despeisse, M. et al. (2021). Achieving Circular and Efficient Production Systems: Emerging Challenges from Industrial Cases. In: Dolgui, A., Bernard, A., Lemoine, D., von Cieminski, G., Romero, D. (eds) Advances in Production Management Systems. Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable and Resilient Production Systems. APMS 2021. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 633. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85910-7_55

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