Industry 4.0 Technologies Revolutionising Footwear: Paving the Path to Circularity Through Innovative Services

Leonor Monteiro (), Ana Correia Simões (), António J. Baptista () and Rui Rebelo ()
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Leonor Monteiro: INESC TEC
Ana Correia Simões: INESC TEC
António J. Baptista: INESC TEC
Rui Rebelo: INESC TEC

A chapter in Human-Centred Technology Management for a Sustainable Future, 2025, pp 543-551 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The footwear industry, a sub-sector of textile industrial sector, faces increased pressures towards higher levels of sustainability and circularity along all the value chain. Along the last decades, shoe products have become more complex products, integrating a greater number of components, materials diversity and often long supply-chains related to cost reduction and production or sourcing delocalization strategies. Full value-chain digitalization, as a cornerstone of Industry 4.0 paradigm, plays a key role for leveraging more sustainable and circular products, namely by traceability operationalization and forthcoming instruments such as Digital Product Passport. This research studied, via a state-of-art framing of the challenges followed by qualitative approach, how Industry 4.0 technologies can support the development of new services that contribute to sustainable and circular practices in footwear companies. An interview-based survey was conducted to 6 footwear companies, to map the adoption level of Industry 4.0 technologies and cross-linking to circular services business models.

Keywords: Sustainability; Circular economy; Industry 4.0; Traceability; Footwear (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-72494-7_53

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