Industry 4.0 to accelerate the circular economy: A case study of electric scooter sharing

• Main Authors: Pham, Trang Thi, Kuo, Tsai Chi, Tseng, Ming Lang, Tan, Raymond Girard R., Tan, Kimhua, Ika, Denny Satria, Lin, Chiuhsiang Joe
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2019
• Subjects: Industry 4.0; Sustainable development; Cooperation > Taiwan; Chemical Engineering
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/2683
• Institution: De La Salle University

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. © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.