PROPOSAL OF A FRAMEWORK FOR THE EVALUATION OF THE SUSTAINABILITY OF PRODUCTS FROM THE PARADIGM OF THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY BASED ON INDUSTRY 4.0 (1ST PART)

Abstract

The impacts generated by the products and manufacturing systems have led to the distancing of natural capital and social capital causing a metabolic fracture, which has led to a change in the sustainable awareness of the manufacturing industry. This has led to the creation and development of new paradigms of sustainability among which is the circular economy. In the context of Industrial Ecology, there are a set of work frameworks, among which are the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), focused on eco-efficiency, and Crade to Crade (C2C), in the eco- effectiveness, which allow the evaluation, eco-innovation and eco-design of the sustainability of products, from the effects of the impacts in the first case and from the causes in the second. The objective of this work is focused on the development of a framework proposal that combines both perspectives and that a new assessment of impacts is articulated by exploiting the potentialities that result from the connectivity, intelligence and digitalization of cyber-physical systems in the context of Industry 4.0 and manufacturing in the cloud for the evolution of products towards the new concept of smart connected product (intelligent connected product). Keywords: Circular Economy, LCA, C2C, Industry 4.0.