Towards "transformative" resilience for the sustainability of Industry 4.0

This study deals with both resilience of production systems in the Industry 4.0 context and the urgent need to take sustainability into account in their management. The "transformative resilience" concept is discussed, leading to go beyond the classical view of resilience as a recovery approach after disruption. After a reminder of the need to sustainable production systems, the major principles of classical resilience are highlighted. Then, issues and features of the transformative resilience are presented, leading to emphasize the need to reconsider the "steady equilibrium" state in which production systems are and tend to come back to after disruption as well as to revisit the way industrial performance is currently evaluated and managed. Conclusion and remarks end this preliminary work that has to be continued into the development of an operational framework for integrating this resilience into the management of sustainable Industry 4.0 production systems. Copyright (C) 2024 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)