Impact of Learning Factories over sustainable production

In recent years the macrotrend of sustainability has experienced an impressive rise in the scientifical debate aided by the correspondent uprising of the green economy macrotrend. Following the directions given by the environmental dimension of the Triple Bottom Line approach, companies are manufacturing goods considering additional factors such as their End of Life, the energy consumption needed for their production and the overall environmental footprint. For this reason, research laboratories and academia are nowadays asked to provide the knowledge needed to assess this impact. The so-far obtained results and the current state of the art are described in this work, thanks to a systematic literature investigation and a bibliometric analysis.