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Changing environmental conditions and socio-political expectations progressively pose challenges and risks for manufacturing companies in the European Union. These so-called sustainability risks are becoming increasingly important and pose challenges for both the manufacturing and financial industries. While research on sustainability assessment in production is, in principle, already quite advanced, the concept of sustainability risk has so far been discussed mainly without dedicated reference to production and its systems. Based on a brief presentation of the state of the art, this paper, therefore, presents a research concept for modelling the sustainability of production systems to identify and assess sustainability risks. The approach is divided into three steps and covers the phases of sustainability modelling, data extraction, and employment as a risk management tool. Several research aspects to be considered in the context of this concept development are presented. In conclusion, an outlook on how the proposed approach will be employed in the manufacturing and financial industries is given.
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The authors would like to thank the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and Jülich Project Management for funding the SynErgie Project (03SFK3E1 2) and Commerzbank AG for the excellent collaboration.
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Schneider, D., Vernim, S., Enck, T., Reinhart, G. (2022). Approach Towards Sustainability Modelling and Sustainability Risk Assessment in Manufacturing Systems. In: Kim, D.Y., von Cieminski, G., Romero, D. (eds) Advances in Production Management Systems. Smart Manufacturing and Logistics Systems: Turning Ideas into Action. APMS 2022. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 663. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16407-1_52
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