Dear Colleagues,

Production activities impact our common environment and the global climate. Following a further positive development in living conditions, wealth, and health, production activities are expected to continue to increase globally. This trend is reinforced by an increased population. Meanwhile, we need to take action to radically decrease the human environmental impact on our planet to ensure appropriate living conditions for future generations. As production has an environmental impact through its energy and materials usage, a transformation into environmentally sustainable production is urgently needed. We need to make more with radically less use of energy and other resources, as well as transform production to a circular one.

This Special Issue aims to publish high-quality research papers on the interdisciplinary field of transformation into environmentally sustainable production. It has a production system focus, targeting operations as well as development of production systems, including management processes, organizational measures, and technology use. It may present empirical and theoretical results showing barriers, enablers, solutions, and effects from transforming production systems toward more environmentally sustainable ones. Even if the focus is the sustainable production system, its relation to product development, product industrialization, supply chain, circular economy, and industrial digitalization are relevant as well.  

Prof. Dr. Magnus Wiktorsson
Prof. Dr. Monica Bellgran
Dr. Seyoum Eshetu Birkie
Guest Editor

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• sustainable production
• production system
• industrial transformation
• climate change
• industrial sustainability