Distributed manufacturing: scope, challenges and opportunities

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 54, Issue 23, 2016, Pages 6917-6935

  Srai, Jagjit Singh ^a   Kumar, Mukesh ^a   Graham, Gary ^b   Phillips, Wendy ^c   Tooze, James ^d   Ford, Simon ^a   Beecher, Paul ^a   Raj, Baldev ^f   Gregory, Mike ^a   Tiwari, Manoj Kumar ^g   Ravi, B ^h   Neely, Andy ^a   Shankar, Ravi ⁱ   Charnley, Fiona ^e   Tiwari, Ashutosh ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART   (United Kingdom)

^e CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^g INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^h INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

ⁱ INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

digitalisation; distributed manufacturing; emerging production technologies; ICT; localisation; personalisation community based production; smart city production systems; urban environments

Indexed keywords

BIG DATA; MANUFACTURE; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

COMMUNITY-BASED; DIGITALISATION; DISTRIBUTED MANUFACTURING; LOCALISATION; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84976878590     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2016.1192302     Document Type: Article

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