Browsing by Author "Wuest, Thorsten"

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    Research challenges for eco-efficient and circular industrial systems
    (Springer , 2024-09-07) Despeisse, Mélanie; Acerbi, Federica; Arioli, Veronica; Childe, Stephen; Colombo, Beatrice; Evans, Steve; González Chávez, Clarissa A.; Jones, Saul; Nujen, Bella B.; Pezzotta, Giuditta; Powell, Daryl; Toller Melén, Carl; Vasconcelos, Margarida; Yang, Miying; Wuest, Thorsten; Romero, David
    The field of industrial sustainability is rapidly expanding with new concepts and frameworks emerging almost daily. At the same time, mature ones are being used in new applications and combined with new technologies and methodologies. While these developments are promising, the ambitions, scale, and speed of the change required to meet sustainability goals urgently need to increase. To accelerate industrial sustainability research and its impact, experts were invited to discuss research challenges in a webinar series focused on ten priority areas for eco-efficient and circular industrial systems. This paper presents the research challenges discussed to share sustainability practices, stimulate collaborations, and inspire change for more impactful applied research and knowledge transfer to industry.
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    Shifting value stream patterns along the product lifecycle with digital twins
    (Elsevier, 2020-02-18) Schleich, Benjamin; Dittrich, Marc-André; Clausmeyer, Till; Damgrave, Roy; Erkoyuncu, John Ahmet; Haefner, Benjamin; Lange, Jos de; Plakhotnik, Denys; Scheidel, Wieben; Wuest, Thorsten
    The concept of digital twins promises high potentials for product design, manufacturing, user experience and recycling. Thus, digital twins have received increasing interest in academia and industry. However, the actual benefits of digital twins remain in many cases unclear. This article aims to summarize selected recent developments in this field and demonstrate use cases from different phases of the product lifecycle. For that purpose, examples from the design, manufacturing, use and recycling phase are presented. In a subsequent discussion, ideas for new value stream patterns using digital twins are envisioned and research questions are derived