Empowering Industry 5.0: A Multicriteria Framework for Energy Sustainability in Industrial Companies

[EN] Industry 5.0 advances manufacturing beyond automation and connectivity by centering people, sustainability, and resilience alongside advanced technologies. Yet organizations still lack standardized metrics to gauge progress. This paper proposes a multi-criteria evaluation framework that assesse...

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Autores: Skéré, Simona, Skerys, Paulius, Bastida-Molina, Paula|||0000-0003-3516-0090, Molina Palomares, Mª Pilar|||0000-0003-4668-9918
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/229931
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/229931
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Industry 5.0
Multicriteria evaluation
Energy sustainability
Human-centricity
Resilience
Industrial companies
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Sumario:[EN] Industry 5.0 advances manufacturing beyond automation and connectivity by centering people, sustainability, and resilience alongside advanced technologies. Yet organizations still lack standardized metrics to gauge progress. This paper proposes a multi-criteria evaluation framework that assesses a company’s alignment with Industry 5.0 across ten criteria spanning the pillars of human centricity, environmental sustainability, and resilience. A structured letter-grade scale (A = full alignment to E = no alignment) summarizes maturity at both criterion and aggregate levels. We apply the framework to a medium-sized Lithuanian manufacturer of furniture components to demonstrate its use. The baseline assessment yields a low overall grade, revealing gaps across all three pillars. Targeted recommendations—covering workforce participation and training, circularity metrics, energy efficiency, supply-chain robustness, and cyber-physical safety—would increase the composite score by roughly 70%, moving the firm toward a well-aligned status. The framework offers a practical tool for diagnosing readiness, prioritizing investments, and guiding Industry 5.0 transitions in manufacturing contexts.