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Integrating Absolute Sustainability and Social Sustainability in the Digital Product Passport to Promote Industry 5.0
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The establishment of the digital product passport is regarded to be a prominent tool to promote environmental and social sustainability, thus enabling the transition towards Industry 5.0. In this way, it represents a holistic tool for the decision-making process of several actors of a product’s value chain. However, its development is still ongoing and the absolute perspective of environmental sustainability and the social sustainability have been overlooked. The present work aims to fill these gaps and complement the literature currently available on the digital product passport with a threefold purpose. Firstly, by referring to social life cycle assessment methodologies, useful social indicators to include in the digital product passport are discussed and proposed. Secondly, the need for an absolute perspective of environmental sustainability that respects the natural limits of our planet is presented; based on the LCA methodology and the Planetary Boundaries framework, environmental attributes and environmental impact indicators with the corresponding threshold are proposed to be included in the passport and enable the so-called absolute environmental sustainability assessment of products. Finally, a framework based on a cyber-physical system for filling in the digital product passport throughout a product lifecycle is conceived. This work represents an example of how the hallmark technologies of Industry 4.0 can be used towards Industry 5.0.
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“For example, MPs can provide access to life cycle analysis data associated with an object, offering insights into circularity characteristics such as life cycle costing information (Mazzoli et al., 2022) or environmental sustainability assessment indicators (Panza, Bruno, & Lombardi, 2023).”
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“In terms of adoption timeframes, not all socio-cultural implementation challenges are framed within a longer-term vision -for example, some publications argue for shorter term initial steps, such as the immediate need for increased awareness of MPs and their benefits (Honic et al., 2019d;Panza et al., 2023;van Capelleveen et al., 2023).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Panza, L., Bruno, G., & Lombardi, F.
- Affiliations
- Politecnico di Torino (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Bruno, Giulia
- Venue
- Sustainability
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2023-08-18
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 16
- Pages
- 12552
- ISSN
- 2071-1050 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4385979354
- Cited by
- 72
- References
- 51
- Citations by year
- 2026: 20 · 2025: 33 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 2
- FWCI
- 6.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Sustainability (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PORTO@Iris (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering › Digital Transformation in Industry
- Keywords
- digital product passport, Industry 5.0, social sustainability, environmental sustainability, social life cycle assessment, social indicators, planetary boundaries, environmental impact indicators, cyber-physical systems, product life cycle, Industry 4.0 technologies, product value chain
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