Challenges of technology vs sustainability

This course provides a comprehensive discussion on what current sustainability issues industrial environments face. Sustainability has been named as one of the key goals of Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing, getting side by side with manufacturing resilience and agility. In this course we discuss how sustainability is achieved in modern factories and how sustainability can be achieved in a Smart MicroGrids policy. Nevertheless, the implementation of a new policy and a novel implementation such as Smart MicroGrids systems, develops great challenges in current sustainability mechanisms both in terms of economic, production and environmental factors. These challenges will be thoroughly discussed and encounters will be proposed that later on engineers will be able to propose to their organizations.This course serves as a great intermediate point for learners with existing knowledge on manufacturing processes and sustainability mechanisms.

The course respects previous knowledge, considers a few sustainability issues as known and aims at upskilling engineers in the sector of sustainability, especially in the imminent implementation of a Smart MicroGrids or any Industry 4.0 technology system implementation.