Dispersed Manufacturing Networks

by Dekkers, Rob

• ISBN13: 9781848824676
• ISBN10: 184882467X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Customers in geographically dispersed, emerging, and established global markets nowadays demand higher quality products in a greater variety, at a lower cost, and in a shorter time. As a result, organizations have moved from centralized, vertically integrated, single-site manufacturing facilities to geographically dispersed networks of resources. The emerging possibilities of information technology and data communication, the globalization of markets, and the ongoing specialization of firms have paved the way for Dispersed Manufacturing Networks as an organizational paradigm for collaboration and coordination across loosely connected agents.

Author Biography

Rob Dekkers holds both a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering and a doctoral degree, both from Delft University of Technology. He joined the University of the West of Scotland in 2006, having previously been a Senior Lecturer in Industrial Organisation and Management at Delft University of Technology, and, during his time in industry, an internal consultant, a production manager and a senior project manager.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. v
Prologue	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Industrial Networks of the Future: Review of Research and Practice	p. 13
Networks as Complex Adaptive Systems	p. 35
Dispersed Network Manufacturing: An Emerging Form of Collaboration Networks	p. 39
Self-Similarity and Criticality in Dispersed Manufacturing: A Contribution to Production Networks Control	p. 59
Collaborations in Industrial Networks: The Co-Evolutionary Perspective	p. 77
Control and Coordination in Industrial Networks	p. 107
Designing and Modeling Agile Supply-Demand Networks	p. 111
Framework for Developing an Agile Future-Proof Supply Chain	p. 131
International Issues of Industrial Networks	p. 155
Developing a Worldwide Production Network Joachim Kuhn	p. 159
Planning in Companies with Dispersed Capacity	p. 179
Managing Product Variety in Multinational Corporation Supply Chains: A Simulation Study Investigating Flow Time	p. 195
Set-Up and Operation of Global Engineering Networks Spanning Industrialized and Emerging Economies	p. 223
Epilogue	p. 241
What Follows	p. 243
About the Editor	p. 251
About the Authors	p. 253
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