A Digital Twin and Blockchain-Enabled Sustainable Industry 4.0 Framework for Deteriorating Items under Carbon Regulation
摘要
The increasing need for sustainable and intelligent manufacturing has accelerated the adoption of digital technologies in production-inventory systems. This study develops a digital twin-enabled smart manufacturing framework that integrates Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring, blockchain traceability, and carbon cap-and-trade regulation within a nonlinear production-inventory optimization model for deteriorating items. The proposed framework extends the classical production-depletion system by using IoT investment to reduce the effective deterioration rate, while blockchain technology provides secure and tamper-resistant recording of production and carbon-emission data. The model jointly optimizes the production cycle length, production uptime, and monitoring intensity by incorporating setup, production, holding, IoT, blockchain, and carbon-trading costs. Numerical results show that the IoT-enabled scenario reduces total cost by approximately