Sustainable and digital cosmetics manufacturing paradigm has attracted a great deal of attention over the last years as an emerging manufacturing approach meant to empower cosmetics enterprises to cope with sustainability challenges and issues. One of the most important challenges sustainable cosmetics manufacturing has to face, is the right assessment and management of productive contents or embodied values of the consumed resources within its systems. At the same time, digital technologies provide several opportunities for the development of an intelligent and sustainable cosmetics manufacturing. The project aims to connect Sustainable Manufacturing and Digital Transformation paradigm under the same umbrella, to propose a new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) data-driven industrial architecture for resource consumption assessment and traceability for manufacturing systems in the cosmetics industry. To this aim, the PhD project find its bases on three main level of studies: (i) cosmetics industry sustainability requirements; (ii) quantitative assessment methodologies for environmental sustainability in cosmetics industry; and (iii) industrial architectures and data spaces for Green Transition in the cosmetics industry. The main scope of the PhD project is to deepen the study of these levels to carry on with an overall approach the advance of the state of the art and the design of the novel ICT industrial architecture customized for cosmetics industry. The focal point of this research project is therefore the environmental sustainability data of cosmetics production and consumption, intended as the source of information strictly related to cosmetics industry environmental sustainability (e.g., materials and energies consumed, waste produced, emission and pollution, water consumption, etc.), whose correct collection, analysis and tracing can lead to enormous benefits for the natural resources management within cosmetics manufacturing systems. According to the “life cycle vision” of product and processes sustainability in cosmetics industry, the cooperation with industrial entities, external to the company, and with final consumers are fundamental to undertake a sustainable and circular-oriented path. This vision led the author to try to analyse the main important requirements to tackle sustainability transition challenge in cosmetics industry, both from a life cycle and supply chain point of view (i.e., first pillar of PhD project - cosmetics industry sustainability requirements). Moreover, since the scope of this PhD project has been to put the attention on quantitative assessment methodologies for environmental sustainability in cosmetics industry (i.e., second pillar of the project - quantitative assessment methodologies for environmental sustainability in cosmetics industry), the analysis of the state of the art and the effort for the development of new methodologies has been focus on environmental indicators, indices, and product-related assessment tools. This choice led the author to develop the Environmental Sustainability Improvement for COSMetics products and processes (ESICOSM) methodology for the Green Transition in the cosmetics industry. ESICOSM methodology represents the key exploitable result of the PhD project. Finally, the outcomes and results coming from the first two pillars of the project, have been exploited in the third pillar to propose some insight for developing a data-driven industrial architecture to foster sustainable manufacturing and cleaner production in cosmetics environments.
Lo sviluppo di sistemi produttivi sostenibili e digitali nell’industria cosmetica ha attirato molta attenzione negli ultimi anni come approccio produttivo emergente capace di consentire alle aziende cosmetiche di affrontare le sfide e i problemi della sostenibilità. Una delle sfide più importanti che la produzione sostenibile di cosmetici deve affrontare infatti, è la corretta valutazione e gestione delle risorse naturali utilizzate all’interno dei suoi sistemi. Allo stesso tempo, le tecnologie digitali offrono diverse opportunità per lo sviluppo di una produzione di cosmetici intelligente e sostenibile. Il progetto di dottorato ha l’obiettivo di far convergere il paradigma della produzione sostenibile e quello della trasformazione digitale all’interno dell’industria cosmetica, cercando di proporre una nuova architettura industriale basata sui dati per la valutazione del consumo di risorse e la tracciabilità dei sistemi di produzione nell’industria dei cosmetici. A tal fine, il progetto di dottorato trova le sue basi su tre principali livelli di studi: (i) requisiti di sostenibilità dell'industria cosmetica; (ii) metodologie di valutazione quantitativa per la sostenibilità ambientale nell'industria cosmetica; e (iii) architetture industriali per la transizione verde nel settore cosmetico. Lo scopo principale del progetto è quello di approfondire lo studio di questi livelli per portare avanti con un approccio olistico l'avanzamento dello stato dell'arte e la progettazione di una nuova architettura industriale ICT (Information and Communication Technology) adatta alle esigenze dell'industria cosmetica. Il punto focale di questo progetto di ricerca sono quindi i dati di sostenibilità ambientale della produzione e del consumo di cosmetici, intesi come fonte di informazioni strettamente legate alla sostenibilità ambientale dell’industria cosmetica (ad esempio, materiali ed energie consumate, rifiuti prodotti, emissioni e inquinamento, consumo di acqua, ecc.), la cui corretta raccolta, analisi e tracciabilità può portare enormi benefici per la gestione delle risorse naturali all’interno dei sistemi di produzione cosmetici. Secondo la “visione del ciclo di vita” della sostenibilità dei prodotti e dei processi nell’industria cosmetica, la collaborazione con realtà industriali, esterne all’azienda, e con i consumatori finali è fondamentale per intraprendere un percorso sostenibile e orientato alla Economia Circolare. Questa visione ha portato l’autore a provare ad analizzare i principali requisiti per affrontare la sfida della transizione alla sostenibilità nell’industria cosmetica, sia dal punto di vista del ciclo di vita che della catena di fornitura. Inoltre, poiché lo scopo di questo progetto di dottorato è stato quello di porre l'attenzione sulle metodologie di valutazione quantitativa per la sostenibilità ambientale nell'industria cosmetica, l'analisi dello stato dell'arte e lo sviluppo di nuove metodologie si è concentrato su indicatori ambientali, indici e strumenti di valutazione relativi alla sostenibilità ambientale di prodotto e di processo. Questa scelta ha portato l’autore a sviluppare la metodologia “Environmental Sustainability Improvement for COSMetics products and Processes (ESICOSM)” (metodologia per il miglioramento della sostenibilità ambientale dei prodotti e processi cosmetici) per la transizione verde nel settore cosmetico. La metodologia ESICOSM rappresenta il risultato chiave del progetto di dottorato. Infine, gli esiti e i risultati provenienti dai primi due pilastri del progetto sono stati sfruttati nel terzo pilastro per proporre alcuni spunti per lo sviluppo di un’architettura industriale basata sui dati per promuovere una produzione sostenibile nei sistemi produttivi cosmetici.
A novel ICT data-driven architecture for sustainable manufacturing in the cosmetics industry
ROCCA, ROBERTO
2023/2024
Abstract
Sustainable and digital cosmetics manufacturing paradigm has attracted a great deal of attention over the last years as an emerging manufacturing approach meant to empower cosmetics enterprises to cope with sustainability challenges and issues. One of the most important challenges sustainable cosmetics manufacturing has to face, is the right assessment and management of productive contents or embodied values of the consumed resources within its systems. At the same time, digital technologies provide several opportunities for the development of an intelligent and sustainable cosmetics manufacturing. The project aims to connect Sustainable Manufacturing and Digital Transformation paradigm under the same umbrella, to propose a new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) data-driven industrial architecture for resource consumption assessment and traceability for manufacturing systems in the cosmetics industry. To this aim, the PhD project find its bases on three main level of studies: (i) cosmetics industry sustainability requirements; (ii) quantitative assessment methodologies for environmental sustainability in cosmetics industry; and (iii) industrial architectures and data spaces for Green Transition in the cosmetics industry. The main scope of the PhD project is to deepen the study of these levels to carry on with an overall approach the advance of the state of the art and the design of the novel ICT industrial architecture customized for cosmetics industry. The focal point of this research project is therefore the environmental sustainability data of cosmetics production and consumption, intended as the source of information strictly related to cosmetics industry environmental sustainability (e.g., materials and energies consumed, waste produced, emission and pollution, water consumption, etc.), whose correct collection, analysis and tracing can lead to enormous benefits for the natural resources management within cosmetics manufacturing systems. According to the “life cycle vision” of product and processes sustainability in cosmetics industry, the cooperation with industrial entities, external to the company, and with final consumers are fundamental to undertake a sustainable and circular-oriented path. This vision led the author to try to analyse the main important requirements to tackle sustainability transition challenge in cosmetics industry, both from a life cycle and supply chain point of view (i.e., first pillar of PhD project - cosmetics industry sustainability requirements). Moreover, since the scope of this PhD project has been to put the attention on quantitative assessment methodologies for environmental sustainability in cosmetics industry (i.e., second pillar of the project - quantitative assessment methodologies for environmental sustainability in cosmetics industry), the analysis of the state of the art and the effort for the development of new methodologies has been focus on environmental indicators, indices, and product-related assessment tools. This choice led the author to develop the Environmental Sustainability Improvement for COSMetics products and processes (ESICOSM) methodology for the Green Transition in the cosmetics industry. ESICOSM methodology represents the key exploitable result of the PhD project. Finally, the outcomes and results coming from the first two pillars of the project, have been exploited in the third pillar to propose some insight for developing a data-driven industrial architecture to foster sustainable manufacturing and cleaner production in cosmetics environments.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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