Dispersed Manufacturing Networks: Challenges for Research and Practice

by Rob Dekkers (Editor)

Overview

Dispersed Manufacturing Networks provides new perspectives of dispersed manufacturing systems from three points of view. The first is that offered by complex systems theory, particularly on how agents in these industrial networks interact and how that provides possibility for coordination. The book also elaborates on issues of coordination and planning, as well as examining new solutions and challenges for logistics problems and collaboration in engineering networks within the internationalisation perspective.

The impact of globalization is discussed for both managerial decision-making and operational performance of supply chains. A strong emphasis is placed on the need for continuous decision-making with recognition of the fact that networks of loosely connected agents require different approaches.

Both researchers and professionals will welcome Dispersed Manufacturing Networks. It is an informative guide for those researching and working across a range of fields.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447157557
Publisher:	Springer London
Publication date:	11/29/2014
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	257
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Prologue.- Industrial Networks of the Future: Review of Research and Practice.- Networks as Complex Adaptive Systems.- Dispersed Network Manufacturing: An Emerging Form of Collaboration Networks.- Self-Similarity and Criticality in Dispersed Manufacturing: A Contribution to Production Networks Control.- Collaborations in Industrial Networks: The Co-Evolutionary Perspective.- Control and Coordination in Industrial Networks.- Designing and Modeling Agile Supply-Demand Networks.- Framework for Developing an Agile Future-Proof Supply Chain.- International Issues of Industrial Networks.- Developing a Worldwide Production Network.- Planning in Companies with Dispersed Capacity.- Managing Product Variety in Multinational Corporation Supply Chains: A Simulation Study Investigating Flow Time.- Set-Up and Operation of Global Engineering Networks Spanning Industrialized and Emerging Economies.- Epilogue.- What Follows.