The decarbonization of industrial sectors typically requires a comprehensive transformation of production networks that rely on fossil or non-renewable resources to those that primarily utilize renewable resources. This represents a complex planning task, as the transformation should be as favorable as possible from the company's point of view, but a variety of factors such as investment budgets, emission limits, demand fulfillment, capacity restrictions, or even time effects must be taken into account during the transformation. Due to this complexity, optimization models are typically used to identify the optimal transformation path.
The aim of this thesis is to structure and analyze the scientific literature on planning approaches of operations research for the transformation of production networks.
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