The transition to industry 4.0 has impacted factories, but it also affects the entire value chain.
In this sense, human-centred factors play a core role in transitioning to sustainable …

Guided by a technological revolution, widely discussed paradigms as servitization and
Circular Economy (CE) are progressively pushing manufacturers towards delivering …

Purpose Given the challenges that Industry 4.0 poses, the purpose of this paper is to
propose a comprehensive assessment model suitable for evaluating small-and medium-size …

The progress and the adoption of digital technologies can rapidly make products, processes,
and business models obsolete, until disrupting entire markets. In this context, small–medium …

This book discusses the most significant ways in which design has been applied to
sustainability challenges using an evolutionary perspective. It puts forward an innovation …

Nowadays, to remain competitive, manufacturing companies must address the Industry 4.0
paradigm, particularly the cyber-physical system (CPS) revolution, following sustainable …

Recent economic transformations have forced companies to redefine their value
propositions, increasing traditional product offerings with supplementary services—the so …

Circular economy has recently emerged as an alternative industrial paradigm to the
traditional “take, make, dispose” economic model, with the aim to promote more sustainable …

The capacity to guide the evolution and creation of new products (manufactured goods or
services) is crucial for the enterprise's profitability. Hence, enterprises have acquired the …

With the advancement of information and communication technologies, smart product-
service system (PSS) has attracted increasing research attention to integrate diverse …