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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. Industry 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 Industry 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 Industry 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.
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The presented research is part of the results of the research project “Di-Link: Digitale Lösungen für industrielle Kunststoffkreisläufe” funded by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), under the funding reference number 033R235C. The responsibility for the content of this publication lies with the authors. The authors would like the BMBF for the kind support within this research project.
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Stratmann, L., Stich, V., Conrad, R., Hoeborn, G., Optehostert, F., Phong, M.P. (2023). A Framework for Leveraging Twin Transition in the Manufacturing Industry. In: von Leipzig, K., Sacks, N., Mc Clelland, M. (eds) Smart, Sustainable Manufacturing in an Ever-Changing World. Lecture Notes in Production Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15602-1_13
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