Autor: Marcus Winkler

Digital Solutions for SMEs’ Circularity Transition

Digital Solutions for SMEs’ Circularity Transition

Examples from the textile industry
Markus Winkler, Dieter Stellmach, Guido Grau, Marcus Winkler, Meike Tilebein ORCID Icon
The EU Strategy for sustainable and circular textiles aims to reduce the industry’s environmental impact while at the same time increasing its competitiveness. In this transition towards circularity, firms in the highly fragmented textile value chains need solutions that help overcome barriers and provide support. This paper presents digital solutions that are particularly suited for SMEs and that have been developed with public funding. It aims at encouraging SMEs, not only from the textile industry, to specify their individual transition paths towards circularity and to use digitalization to foster implementation.
Industry 4.0 Science | Volume 40 | 2024 | Edition 5 | Pages 26-33 | DOI 10.30844/I4SE.24.5.26
What is the Contribution of Digitization to Sustainability?

What is the Contribution of Digitization to Sustainability?

An approach to evaluating the digitalization of textile production in terms of ecological and economic sustainability
Michael Weiß, Marcus Winkler, Jürgen Seibold, Guido Grau
Digitization and sustainable development are playing an important role in many areas, especially in production, although it is still unclear how they influence each other. First studies already addressed the question of how digitization can impact sustainability. It became clear that an evaluation method with indicators from all sustainability perspectives is needed. In this article, we will present a model-based evaluation method especially for ecological and economic sustainability, taking digital textile printing as an example. (Only in German)
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 39 | 2023 | Edition 2 | Pages 25-28
Lifelong Learning

Lifelong Learning

New solutions for textile and clothing industry
Marcus Winkler, Guido Grau, Meike Tilebein ORCID Icon
Lifelong learning is an elementary part of the knowledge society and of high importance for industries and societies facing digitization (Industry 4.0). This comprises individual opportunities for the employees as well as competitive advantages for companies. Two concrete solutions for textile and clothing industry will be presented here: on the one hand a sector wide offer for vocational training and on the other hand an adaptable IT based learning method enabling learning in the workplace. Both solutions show cutting edge concepts, technologies and didactic.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 32 | 2016 | Edition 5 | Pages 58-61