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The manufacturing industry contributes to climate change and must take action to reach its high-set target. Implementation of circularity to reach sustainability has shown to be beneficial for products, but there is a lack of knowledge on how to transfer the concept to the design of factories. The purpose of the paper is to identify and systemically analyse areas of importance to enable circularity in production development to better understand what requires attention to achieve a circular factory. The focus of the study is on production development narrowed down to production equipment. A case study approach was used with interviews as the main method for data collection. Four main themes were identified: competence, collaboration, mindset and time. These were considered as areas of importance to enable circularity and to understand what needs further attention they were analysed in a systemic view of macro-, meso- and microlevel. The findings stress the need for investing in circularity in early phases to achieve circularity and that all levels of the industry need to take part in the transition towards circularity. Further, research within areas with similar complexities could benefit and learn from each other.
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The research is a part of the VINNOVA-founded project Green Design. Interviews were made in collaboration with Lotta Bohlin.
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Elvin, M., Bruch, J., Aslanidou, I., Bellgran, M., Bohlin, L. (2024). Investing Ahead - Industrial Outlook on Circularity Within Production Development. In: Thürer, M., Riedel, R., von Cieminski, G., Romero, D. (eds) Advances in Production Management Systems. Production Management Systems for Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous Environments. APMS 2024. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 728. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71622-5_12
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