TITLE:
Digital Green Innovation towards Industry 5.0 and Society 5.0: A Mini-Review
AUTHORS:
Qiaoying Zhang, Yilin Wang, Ningning Jia, Lijun Ma, Fengyu Guo, Shi Yin
KEYWORDS:
Digital Green Innovation, Industry 5.0, Society 5.0, Circular Economy, Artificial Intelligence
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.12 No.8,
August
22,
2025
ABSTRACT: This paper comprehensively delves into digital green innovation within the manufacturing industry against the backdrop of the progression towards Industry 5.0 and Society 5.0 as well as global economic trends. The manufacturing sector, a crucial pillar for economic growth, now contends with significant hurdles in its quest for sustainability. Digital green innovation, skillfully merging digital technologies and green principles, has thus emerged as a key driver to steer the industry towards the aspired future. It meticulously analyzes how advanced digital technologies function; the IoT enables real-time, detailed production line monitoring like in automobile manufacturing to ensure smooth operations, big data analytics guides smart decision-making, artificial intelligence transforms quality control and scheduling, and blockchain bolsters product traceability trust. Green innovation, covering green manufacturing, circular economy, and low-carbon technologies, builds the foundation of a sustainable ecosystem, spurred by government policies, market demands, technological advances, and corporate strategies. Its practical applications are extensive, with intelligent manufacturing creating intelligent factories and robust green supply chains, product life cycle management optimizing from start to finish, energy management reducing consumption and leveraging renewables, and waste management initiating a circular economy. The benefits are three-pronged: environmentally cutting emissions and conserving resources, economically slashing costs, enhancing productivity and competitiveness, and socially generating jobs and enhancing corporate reputations. Future research will focus on interdisciplinary integration, integrating emerging technologies into supply chains, and micro-macro coordination to fuel continuous innovation in the manufacturing industry in the new era.