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. 2022 Dec 5:1–21. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s10845-022-02060-6

Table 5.

Examples of sustainability metrics/indicators in the product/service dimensions

Economic Social Environmental

End-to-End

Engineering

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Social sustainability metrics and indicators:

- Value co-creation metrics in service design (including some aspects of sustainability) (Botti et al., 2018).

Smart products

/ Digitalization

Economic sustainability metrics and indicators:

- Economic-oriented metrics to evaluate smart energy systems transition (Dincer & Acar, 2017).

Social sustainability metrics and indicators:

- Social-oriented metrics to evaluate smart energy systems transition (Dincer & Acar, 2017).

Environmental sustainability metrics and indicators:

- Environment-oriented metrics to evaluate smart energy systems transition (Dincer & Acar, 2017).

New Business Models

Economic sustainability assessment framework:

- Impact of lean production and servitization on sustainable performance (Hao et al., 2021).

- Performance measurement in servitization (Brax et al., 2021).

- Quantitative analysis of the economic impact of Industry 4.0 enabled circular economy (Spaltini et al., 2021).

Social sustainability assessment framework:

- Implications of servitization and digitalization in improvement of the organizational resilience and growth in healthcare manufacturing firms during the COVID-19 pandemic (Zhang & Qi, 2021).

Environmental sustainability assessment framework:

- Impact of lean production and servitization on sustainable performance (Hao et al., 2021).

- Quantitative analysis of the environmental impact of Industry 4.0 enabled circular economy (Spaltini et al., 2021).

- A 3DR model (disassembly, deconstruction and resilience) to evaluate the level of the circularity of building and demolition industry (O’Grady et al., 2021).