Abstract
Innovative, knowledge-intensive products are essential for companies to stay competitive in a globalised market. For the development of such products, small and medium-sized enterprises combine their core competences and resources in dynamic, loosely coupled networks. The basis for efficient and robust production of the newly developed subject can already be provided in the early phases of such collaboration. However, a continuous manufacturing process can only be achieved by a conscious and guided transformation from development network to production chain. This paper presents an approach from the European research project SmartNets to control and support this transformation methodologically and technologically, considering not only the organizational perspective, but also information and communication technologies, and knowledge aspects. A case study will illustrate how the transformation could be implemented in one of the project’s industrial networks.
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Robust manufacturing describes the proper functioning, repeatable and stable behavior of manufacturing systems in terms of e.g. quality, cost effectiveness and sustainability even under the influence of uncertain parameters and disturbances.
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The work presented in this paper has been partly carried out in the context of the SmartNets project (http://www.smart-nets.eu) co-funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Program (NMP, project no. 262806). The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the European Commission and the comments and contributions of the SmartNets project partners.
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Lau, A., Hirsch, M., Matheis, H. (2013). From Collaborative Development to Manufacturing in Production Networks: The SmartNets Approach. In: Windt, K. (eds) Robust Manufacturing Control. Lecture Notes in Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30749-2_21
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