Journal
APPLIED ENERGY
Volume 164, Issue -, Pages 628-638Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.11.044
Keywords
Energy efficiency; Sustainability; Eco-factory; Focus group; Energy management; Production
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- EMC2 Factory (Eco Manufactured transportation means from Clean and Competitive Factory) Project - European Commission within FP7 [285363]
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The integration of environmental sustainability and eco-efficiency has been recognized as a means to foster economic and environmental performance, increase competitiveness and use it as a lever to spur innovation. Besides integrating green technologies in the manufacturing system, putting environmental goals on the company agenda, and pursuing green norms and directives, the question is: quo vadis eco-factory? Based on a focus group study with 22 European experts and high-level representatives from industry, policy-makers and academia, we raised the question of what might be the research directions and solutions for eco-factories in the next 20 years. Our two major findings suggest that (i) research should more focus on the opportunities that human participants in a manufacturing system can foster change toward eco-factories and that (ii) firm-intern characteristics like enabling environmental capability, organization and structure will likely determine upon successful transition and increased competitiveness. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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