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.
Original language | English |
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Publisher | Glasgow Caledonian University |
Number of pages | 7 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781905866564 |
Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- product customisation
- configurator
- cloud manufacturing