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Social manufacturing: drivers, research status, and trends

  

  1. State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Xi′an Jiaotong University, Xi′an 710054, China
  • Online:2016-02-29 Published:2016-04-05
  • About author:江平宇(1963-),男,江苏省人,教授,博士生导师,主要研究方向为制造服务系统工程、服务型制造、质量控制等.

Abstract:

Combined with the characteristics of current manufacturing industry, social manufacturing paradigm is introduced from two perspectives: transformation of manufacturing enterprises and shift of manufacturing paradigms. Discussions about the drivers of social manufacturing are given, and related work on social manufacturing is summarized. Furthermore, research trends and challenges of social manufacturing are addressed. Social manufacturing would satisfy the mass personalized requirements of customers, and handle the complex sharing, collaborations, and interaction problems among different kinds of stakeholders. It moves us closer to the vision of peer production in the future manufacturing industry.

Key words: manufacturing paradigm, social manufacturing, sharing economy, open innovation, socialnomics, social community, cyberphysicalsocial interconnection