Abstract
The industrial metabolism has been conceived on the basis of analogies about the set of biochemical reactions (anabolism and catabolism) that occur in a living being and their flows of matter, energy and substances in natural ecosystems. This conception determines forms of appropriation and consumption of substances, materials and energy, from the natural environment (natursphere) and the technical environment (technosphere) for their transformation and subsequent elimination, under the articulation of criteria of cyclicity, toxicity and efficiency. The last aim of Industrial Ecology (IE), is materialized when the variety of industrial ecosystems is eco-compatible with the variety of natural ecosystems. The naturalisation of manufacturing systems is an effort to conceive them with variety similar to natural systems in order to achieve their eco-compatibility. In addition to bionic models from natural ecosystems in the field of industrial metabolism, several attempts have been made to design technical systems using bionic models from the Living Systems Theory (LST). The formulation of manufacturing systems based on living systems can be considered as a set of dynamic systems from Bertalanffy’s perspective. In this paper is postulated an Eco-Holonic Reference Architecture for its projection in the design of manufacturing systems metabolism with an adaptive, self-regulating and required variety structure and with a potential toolbox in the core knowledge of the holon throughout its life cycle.
Highlights
Some of the features that characterize today's manufacturing systems can be synthesized in three dimensions that correspond to digital transformation, their necessary alignment with the sustainable development goals of the Agenda 2030 of the United Nations and their adaptive value chain forming integrated networks of value and suppliers geographically distributed across the planet [1]
Many are the researches on bio-inspired approaches associated with manufacturing systems among some we find the modeling of biological manufacturing systems for their dynamic reconfiguration or their autonomous and cooperative behavior by intelligent agents [9]; comparison of the main natural manufacturing paradigms such as bionics, fractals and holonics [10], and models inspired by selforganization to endow manufacturing systems with adaptive capabilities to the environment
The design of industrial metabolism models inspired by the Living Systems Theory (LST), confirms that industrial ecosystems can imitate natural ecosystems in terms of structure, actors and interactions of the material, energy and substance flows within and outside the Holonic system
Summary
Some of the features that characterize today's manufacturing systems can be synthesized in three dimensions that correspond to digital transformation, their necessary alignment with the sustainable development goals of the Agenda 2030 of the United Nations and their adaptive value chain forming integrated networks of value and suppliers geographically distributed across the planet [1].
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