A front-end system to support cloud-based manufacturing of customised products: The 9th International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR2011)

Arthur Lan Kuan Yip, Ananda Prasanna Jagadeesan, Jonathan Corney, Yi Qin, Ursula Rauschecker, David K. Harrison (Editor), Bruce M. Wood (Editor), Dorothy Evans (Editor)

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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 languageEnglish
PublisherGlasgow Caledonian University
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9781905866564
Publication statusPublished - 2011

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • product customisation
  • configurator
  • cloud manufacturing

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