DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7701-042-9-0068

GREEN MANUFACTURING THROUGH DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: TRENDS AND CHALLENGES

Mercy Minoo Kavele¹, Dorota Jelonek², Csaba Balint Illes¹

¹ John von Neumann University Doctoral School of Management and Business Administration, Budapest, Hungary

² Department of Management Information Systems, Czestochowa University of Technology, Częstochowa, Poland

Green manufacturing aided by digital transformation offers great potential for manufacturing industry to reduce its environmental impact while maintaining and improving operational efficiency. Digital Technologies like the Big Data, cloud computing, Additive manufacturing, Twin production, Just-in-time, AI and machine learning, and Blockchain are key drivers aiding better resource management, and energy efficiency while promoting sustainable production. The implementation of the technologies is encountering various barriers such as Workforce gaps, high costs, critical security and confidential concerns, legal integration challenges, and resistance to change. Organizations have to overcome these by developing solutions that can counteract the challenges, which are not limited to cybersecurity, training, gradual technology adoption and process improvements.

Keywords: green manufacturing, digital transformation, sustainability

pages: 68-69, online: 2025