M3C: Marco de Modelado de Metabolismo Circular en proyectos de ingeniería

Abstract

Engineering projects need to be conceived in a sustainable way, so as to ensure ecocompatibility between technical metabolism associated with the project and natural metabolism that exists in the ecosystems, that is, the environment in which the project is developed. This paper presents a general framework for modeling engineering project entities for environments built with metabolism for circular economy. The framework is based on the holonic paradigm, which has traditionally been used to optimize manufacturing, control and planning systems, aimed at providing high efficiency from an economic perspective, and not considering the other two perspectives of sustainability (social and environmental). The proposed holonic modeling framework has a fractal configuration, bioinspired, that parameterizes its elements under the situation and context of application, multilevel and multiscale, to form ecosystems in which technosphere is integrated into natursphere. Likewise, the framework proposes the holonic as an organizational enabler that manages the emerging complexity of current engineering projects, and that integrates and takes advantage of the opportunities offered by digital and technological enablers, from Industry 4.0, to integrate the different views of the industrial metabolism.