The project team has published a new paper that concludes the environmental impact analysis work of the LIFE Forture project. in the paper, the Organizational Life Cycle Assessment methodology is applied to arrive at the impact of Gresmalt’s organization. Through a sensitivity analysis, it was shown how, starting with the environmental impact of a manufacturing...Read More

In line with the previous publication in the Journal of Cleaner Production (D1.JournalofCleanerProduction 101221), the project team was invited to publish the methodology behind the previous paper. The paper is entitled “Social Organizational Life Cycle Assessment (SO-LCA) and Organization 4.0: an easy-to-implement method” Paper link: D1.MethodsX 010422  Read More

One of the most complex issues companies must face in their sustainable development is dealing with the concept of economic sustainability. Economic sustainability is recognised as the ability of surviving and keep creating value for the company’s shareholders and all the other stakeholders involved in the value chain. Starting from this definition, the project team...Read More

At the end of 2021, the team continued with the publication of project results. The newly published paper dealt with social sustainability and was entitled ‘Industry 4.0-based dynamic Social Organizational Life Cycle Assessment to target the social circular economy in manufacturing’. Although environmental sustainability is the most widely discussed topic, social sustainability is an equally...Read More

The project team, in the AFTER-LIFE phase, investigated how the adaptation of the supply chain makes it an effective tool in the management of a circular economy, as it allows aspects of sustainability and regeneration to be incorporated into production. The results of the research show that the operating routines associated with the use of...Read More

The project team published a paper entitled “Dynamic life cycle assessment (LCA) integrating life cycle inventory (LCI) and Enterprise resource planning (ERP) in an industry 4.0 environment”. The paper, published in the journal “Journal of Cleaner Production”, describes the main results of the LIFE Forture project regarding the dynamic assessment of environmental sustainability. Journal link: https://bit.ly/3nLmULi...Read More