Product Lifecycle Management and Sustainable Development in the Context of Industry 4.0: A Systematic Literature Review
Michele Marcos de Oliveira, Luisa Geraldi Andreatta, Josip Stjepandić, Osíris Canciglieri
Abstract
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and its disruptive technologies are emerging massively. With various motivations for its implementation such as elevation of speed, reducing costs, mitigating errors, and other different factors, more and more technology are being employed to solve business problems and increase profit. Through the years, product lifecycles have been shorted as a good reason to reduce production costs and give to consumers the experience of replacing goods in shorter periods. This linear cycle of “produce-use-dispose” reached a massive success in the last decades, but have started to show lack of sustainability for consumer and industry. This work aims to conduct a Systematic Literature Review about the future challenges for Product Lifecycle Management and Sustainable Development, considering the context of Industry 4.0. The expected outcome for this study is to find elements that can support the use of 4.0 technologies in Product Lifecycle Management with a strong background for Sustainable Development.