TY - CHAP
T1 - Digital Capability as an Enabler of Circular Economy in Saudi Arabia's Manufacturing Sector
AU - Alshammari, Serhan Shaman
AU - Ani, Uchenna Daniel
AU - Sarfraz, Shoaib
AU - Okorie, Okechukwu
AU - Salonitis, Konstantinos
PY - 2024/10/26
Y1 - 2024/10/26
N2 - Circular Economy (CE) minimizes waste through reduce, reuse, and recycle principles across product lifecycles. Digital technologies like IoT, AI, and big data analytics can significantly enhance CE implementation when integrated into manufacturing operations and decisions. Benefits include resource efficiency, supply chain transparency, predictive maintenance, and circular business models. However, barriers exist like high investment costs and lack of infrastructure. The paper uses mixed methods to explore how digitalization can promote CE practices within Saudi manufacturing. It summarizes the global digitalization trends enabling CE in manufacturing and provides an outlook on Saudi Arabia’s vision 2030 strategy. It also highlights early sustainability initiatives in Saudi manufacturing, key challenges identified via stakeholder engagements, and policy measures needed to incentivize adoption. It concludes that digitalization presents an immense opportunity to advance CE manufacturing in alignment with Saudi’s economic diversification and resilience goals. However, realizing sustainability and competitiveness benefits requires urgent multi-stakeholder collaboration and interdisciplinary perspectives.
AB - Circular Economy (CE) minimizes waste through reduce, reuse, and recycle principles across product lifecycles. Digital technologies like IoT, AI, and big data analytics can significantly enhance CE implementation when integrated into manufacturing operations and decisions. Benefits include resource efficiency, supply chain transparency, predictive maintenance, and circular business models. However, barriers exist like high investment costs and lack of infrastructure. The paper uses mixed methods to explore how digitalization can promote CE practices within Saudi manufacturing. It summarizes the global digitalization trends enabling CE in manufacturing and provides an outlook on Saudi Arabia’s vision 2030 strategy. It also highlights early sustainability initiatives in Saudi manufacturing, key challenges identified via stakeholder engagements, and policy measures needed to incentivize adoption. It concludes that digitalization presents an immense opportunity to advance CE manufacturing in alignment with Saudi’s economic diversification and resilience goals. However, realizing sustainability and competitiveness benefits requires urgent multi-stakeholder collaboration and interdisciplinary perspectives.
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-97-8345-8_8
DO - 10.1007/978-981-97-8345-8_8
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9789819783441
VL - 3
T3 - Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
SP - 55
EP - 62
BT - Proceedings of the ICSDI 2024
A2 - Mansour, Yasser
A2 - Subramaniam, Umashankar
A2 - Mustaffa, Zahiraniza
A2 - Abdelhadi, Abdelhakim
A2 - Al-Atroush, Mohamed
A2 - Abowardah, Eman
PB - Springer Singapore
CY - Singapore
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Sustainability
Y2 - 18 February 2024 through 22 February 2024
ER -