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A front-end system to support cloud-based manufacturing of customised products

Year: 2011

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: In today’s global market, customized products are amongst an important means to address diverse customer demand and in achieving a unique competitive advantage. Key enablers of this approach are existing product configuration and supporting IT-based manufacturing systems. As a proposed advancement, it considered that the development of a front-end system with a next level of integration to a cloud-based manufacturing infrastructure is able to better support the specification and on-demand manufacture of customized products. In this paper, a new paradigm of Manufacturing-as-a-Service (MaaS) environment is introduced and highlights the current research challenges in the configuration of customizable products. Furthermore, the latest development of the front-end system is reported with a view towards further work in the research.

Source: Strathprints: The University of Strathclyde institutional repository (University of Strathclyde)

Authors: Arthur Lan Kuan Yip, Ananda Prasanna Jagadeesan, Jonathan Corney, Yi Qin, Ursula Rauschecker

Institution: Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation

Language: English

Topic: Digital Transformation in Industry

Subfield: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: green

Funder: European Commission

OpenAlex ID: W2146221455