Circular Industry 4.0: Redesigning the future

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This course will provide insights into how technology can shape and enable the Circular Economy throughout the supply chain. The industrial revolution offers companies significant opportunities in process efficiency, cost reduction, and productivity improvement and to rethink circular products and new services.

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Circular Industry 4.0: Redesigning the future

Course Overview

Author: Dr. Alessio Franconi
The different sections in the course introduce the reader to more relevant approaches and technologies for narrowing, slowing, and closing resource cycles. 

The course provides case examples where applicable to help readers better grasp the available alternatives. The approach is based on the product life cycle, from primary or secondary material extraction through resource recovery to start a new product life cycle.

This course is divided into eight sections:

  1. Understanding Industry 4.0 – addressing the economic, social, and environmental elements.
  2. Urban mining – the future of the mining industry.
  3. Intelligent systems: Smart Circular Design – how technology is changing product and system design. 
  4. Smart factory – technology and product manufacturing to decrease resource use.
  5. Use and Service in the digital era – essential digital technologies to slow down resource cycles. 
  6. Recapture value from users – technology to increase customer value. 
  7. Recovery strategies and technologies opportunities – technology for product reconditioning. 
  8. Key takeaways.

This course highlights three SDGs and their role in redesigning the future: 

  • Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy.
  • Goal 9: Industry, innovation, and infrastructure.
  • Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production. 

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What are the Learning Outcomes?

Knowledge and Understanding

Explain innovation and using new technologies as ongoing processes with several factors influencing success at each stage.
Explains how different technologies have evolved in the industrial sector and how these have led to social, economic and future environmental improvements.
Explain how different technologies are utilized and integrated to decrease the environmental energy effect at each stage of the supply chain.
Determine how digital technologies, particularly digital platforms, may contribute to the reuse of materials and goods in B2C, C2C, and B2B interactions.
Determine how autonomous robotic technology will improve and simplify product refurbishment, remanufacturing, and recycling.
Explain the importance of data in connecting information across the supply chain.
Give examples of disruptive innovations that can bring a new way of doing things, challenge established businesses, and open up new markets for innovative goods and processes.
List the key features of technologies and describe how they contribute to design infrastructure, and innovation.

Cognitive Skills

Analyze why an innovative technology can be an opportunity for the Circular Economy.
Identify when and why certain technologies should be used in the specific case.
Examine the potential use of specific technologies to control and manage the asset throughout the product life cycle.
Analyze how the market and technologies will change to predict how the product can be implemented and designed to respond to these changes.

Key Skills

To differentiate between the main existing technologies, their functions, and their appropriateness for the Circular Economy.
To link several technologies to optimize resource use.
Use the data collected from connected products to integrate solutions that can favour all stakeholders involved in product management.

Professional Skills

Apply your industry 4.0 knowledge to address Circular Economy challenges.
Use your understanding of Industry 4.0 to build more ecologically and economically sustainable manufacturing processes.

What You Will Learn

Why is Industry 4.0 critical in the Circular Economy?
The fourth industrial revolution is decentralizing and self-regulating the system. The potential of new data, connections, and processes is explained through an overview of essential technologies.
Discover how Industry 4.0 enables businesses to monitor, optimize, and improve their supply chain in real-time.
Resource extraction in a Circular Economy
New technologies contribute to reducing mining’s environmental impact. However, novel approaches such as urban mining are gaining popularity. 
Explore the most cutting-edge technologies and learn how resource extraction and reuse in urban areas may increase material circularity.
How can technology advance circular design?
Multiple sensors are included in products to provide additional functionality or monitor how the material or device is used or reacting during operation. 
Discover how we can use data to inform design choices.
How will smart factories enhance the Circular Economy?
The concept of “smart factories” is central to Industry 4.0. 
Explore how future factories can make quick design modifications, operate autonomously, and quickly move commodities.
Technology enabling new services
While understanding how to create technological cycles is far more developed, knowledge of building biological cycles is still in its infancy. 
Explore several helpful insights that can help accelerate the shift to a design based on biological materials.
How can value be recaptured in the digital era?
Digitization is crucial not only for consumers but for reverse logistics. Knowing the history of a product, component, or material helps its reuse or regeneration. 
Discover how to guide and encourage consumer recovery behaviors in the new digital era.
How can technology support slowing and closing flows?

Technologies enable the facilitation, acceleration, and enhancement of the slowing and closure of flow cycles. 
Explore major value recovery strategies and the technology that makes the Circular Economy viable and practical.

Takeaways

A circular economy is now conceivable because of technological advancements in innovation. These technology potentials and prospects will be linked and described to encourage thoughtful and focused adoption for the transition to the Circular Economy.

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Enrollment Information

Once you have enrolled, you will be given access to our Learning Management System.

You will be guided through the original content of the course with dynamic, rich, enjoyable, narrated, and easy-to-understand content. 

  • The course is divided into easily navigated sections.
  • Each section is followed by non-graded “knowledge check questions” to help you ensure that you successfully assimilated the content.
  • You can go back and view the content as often as you like.
  • The course must be validated within two (2) weeks after the initial registration.

When you reach the end of the course, you will be awarded the Certificate of Completion.

“One of the biggest obstacles to fully implementing the Circular Economy is the overwhelming intricacy of the concept. The only way to make sense of this complexity is to bring more eyes to it. Join a group of people who share your vision of a more ecological future and help educate you with the knowledge and experience to make the shift to a Circular Economy. Register now and begin making a difference!”
Dr. Alessio Franconi – Author
Circular Industry 4.0: Redesigning the future
Circular By Design: Innovation, strategy and resource flows.

“One of the biggest obstacles to fully implementing the Circular Economy is the overwhelming intricacy of the concept. The only way to make sense of this complexity is to bring more eyes to it. Join a group of people who share your vision of a more ecological future and help educate you with the knowledge and experience to make the shift to a Circular Economy. Register now and begin making a difference!”

Dr. Alessio Franconi – Author
Circular Industry 4.0: Redesigning the future
Circular By Design: Innovation, strategy and resource flows.

How You Will Learn

Interactive training sessions

Knowledge check questions

Case studies / Best practices

Unique learning platform with Mobile Access

Exposure to a network of experts

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Explore cutting edge research

Exposure to a network of experts

Be part of a community

Explore cutting edge research

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This Course in a Bundle

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Total dedicated effort required: 45 hours *

 

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Total dedicated effort required: 30 hours *

 

Circular Economy Professionals (Foundational)

Get an in-depth, comprehensive overview of foundational Circular Economy principles to get familiar with industry concepts.

385.00  + VAT (if applicable)

4 courses

Total dedicated effort required: 16 hours *

Circular Economy Specialist (High-Mastery)

Gain highly- specialized insights to drive industry change, advance your career and become a renowned expert in your field.

1,085.00  + VAT (if applicable)

12 courses

Total dedicated effort required: 45 hours *

 

Circular Economy Manager (Advanced)

Gain expertise that goes beyond the basics to offer in-depth knowledge of circular economy principles and applications.

745.00  + VAT (if applicable)

8 courses

Total dedicated effort required: 30 hours *

 

Circular Economy Professionals (Foundational)

Get an in-depth, comprehensive overview of foundational Circular Economy principles to get familiar with industry concepts.

385.00  + VAT (if applicable)

4 courses

Total dedicated effort required: 16 hours *

* Depending on the level of experience and pace the learner is willing to invest in the learning journey.