Manufacturing services collaboration: connotation, framework, key technologies, and research issues
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Manufacturing services collaboration: connotation, framework, key technologies, and research issues Pei Li 1 & Ying Cheng 1 & Wenyan Song 2 & Fei Tao 1 Received: 1 December 2019 / Accepted: 1 September 2020 # Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Manufacturing resources sharing and collaboration has become the inevitable trend to optimize the operation of manufacturing industry. The development of various advanced manufacturing systems (AMSs) and new-generated information technologies (New ITs) prompt the emergence of various industrial Internet platforms. In this context, it provides a brand new opportunity for enterprises to conduct manufacturing resources sharing and collaboration in the form of manufacturing services, namely, manufacturing services collaboration (MS-collaboration). However, the relevant research on MS-collaboration under the environment of industrial Internet platforms is still insufficient. Therefore, in this paper, the evolution from manufacturing collaboration to MS-collaboration toward industrial Internet platforms is analyzed at first, and the derived environment characteristics and challenges of MS-collaboration are discussed accordingly. After exploring the connotation of MS-collaboration, its implementation framework and corresponding enabling technologies are proposed. A 3D Printing case is presented to illustrate the application of the proposed methods. Finally, in order to promote the application of an industrial Internet platform, stimulate more enterprises to participate in, and conduct MS-collaboration in it, several future research issues are pointed out. Keywords Manufacturing collaboration . Industrial Internet platform . Manufacturing services collaboration (MS collaboration) . Services composition . Collaborative relationship
1 Introduction In the context of new global economy, an increasingly competitive environment is forcing the innovation for manufacturing industry [1, 2]. Manufacturing enterprises have to optimize their traditional operation modes, so as to get the significant competencies with new business strategies and technological capabilities. However, there are some challenges for manufacturing enterprises to improve their operation modes, such as professionalization, customization, information island, tasks execution concurrency, information transformation for making effective decisions, production waste, and so on [3, 4].
* Fei Tao [email protected] 1
School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, People’s Republic of China
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School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, People’s Republic of China
These difficulties and challenges require unprecedented levels of interoperability to integrate and share distributed manufacturing resources across organizational boundaries. In this context, it is worth mentioning that collaboration is a critical means to augment value creation activities of an organization and reinforce its competitive advanta
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