Higher sustainability with extended product lifecycle is a tireless pursuit in companies'
product design/development endeavours. In this regard, two prevailing concepts, namely the …

Profiting from the benefits of smart products connected through the Internet of Things (IoT)
could disrupt business models and has the potential to foster a circular economy by …

The rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICT) has enabled
the prevailing digital transformation (ie digitalization), where physical products can be …

Intensifying global consumption stipulates the use of sustainable manufacturing and circular
economy concepts to make products while managing available finite resources. Designers …

The rapid development and implementation of smart, connected products have triggered a
promising manufacturing paradigm of servitization, ie smart product-service systems (Smart …

Product–service systems (PSSs) have significant sustainability potential. However, limited
knowledge is available on the choices to develop circular PSS solutions. The goal of this …

Smart product-service systems (Smart PSS), as an emerging digital servitization paradigm,
leverages smart, connected products and their generated services as a solution bundle to …

Remanufacturing is a circular manufacturing (CM) strategy that emerges as a sustainable
manufacturing approach to recover the value of end-of-life products. It is a challenging …

It is estimated that the adaptation of the Circular Economy approach can yield material cost
savings of hundreds of billions of dollars per year for the EU and can result in huge …

Abstract This Virtual Special Issue (VSI) was proposed on par with the fascinating and
exponentially growing development of smart enabling technologies, such as Internet of …