Distributed manufacturing: scope, challenges and opportunities

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dc.contributor.authorSingh Srai, Jagjit
dc.contributor.authorKumar, Mukesh
dc.contributor.authorGraham, Gary
dc.contributor.authorPhillips, Wendy
dc.contributor.authorTooze, James
dc.contributor.authorFord, Simon
dc.contributor.authorBeecher, Paul
dc.contributor.authorRaj, Baldev
dc.contributor.authorGregory, Mike
dc.contributor.authorKumar Tiwari, Manoj
dc.contributor.authorRavi, B.
dc.contributor.authorNeely, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorShankar, Ravi
dc.contributor.authorCharnley, Fiona
dc.contributor.authorTiwari, Ashutosh
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-14T09:55:36Z
dc.date.available2016-09-14T09:55:36Z
dc.date.issued2016-06-16
dc.description.abstractThis discussion paper aims to set out the key challenges and opportunities emerging from distributed manufacturing (DM). We begin by describing the concept, available definitions and consider its evolution where recent production technology developments (such as additive and continuous production process technologies), digitisation together with infrastructural developments (in terms of IoT and big data) provide new opportunities. To further explore the evolving nature of DM, the authors, each of whom are involved in specific applications of DM research, examine through an expert panel workshop environment emerging DM applications involving new production and supporting infrastructural technologies. This paper presents these generalisable findings on DM challenges and opportunities in terms of products, enabling production technologies and the impact on the wider production and industrial system. Industry structure and location of activities are examined in terms of the democratising impact on participating network actors. The paper concludes with a discussion on the changing nature of manufacturing as a result of DM, from the traditional centralised, large-scale, long lead-time forecast-driven production operations to a new DM paradigm where manufacturing is a decentralised, autonomous near end user-driven activity. A forward research agenda is proposed that considers the impact of DM on the industrial and urban landscape.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationSingh Srai, J. et al. (2016) Distributed manufacturing: scope, challenges and opportunities, International Journal of Production Research, Vol 54, Iss. 23, pp6917-6935en_UK
dc.identifier.issn0020-7543
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2016.1192302
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/10527
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectDistributed manufacturingen_UK
dc.subjectEmerging production technologiesen_UK
dc.subjectICTen_UK
dc.subjectDigitisationen_UK
dc.subjectLocalisationen_UK
dc.subjectPersonalisation community-based productionen_UK
dc.subjectUrban environmentsen_UK
dc.subjectSmart city production systemsen_UK
dc.titleDistributed manufacturing: scope, challenges and opportunitiesen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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