Dispersed manufacturing networks: challenges for research and practice

"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. These methods and tools offer pathways to the development of integrative approaches. Both researchers andprofessionals will welcome "Dispersed Manufacturing Networks". It is an informative guide for those researching and working across a range of fields, including manufacturing management and networks; ICT applications, such as virtual networks or holonic manufacturing; and operations management. Provides the reader with methods and tools for developing integrative approaches for dispersedmanufacturing systems INDICE: Industrial Networks of the Future: Review of Research and Practice.- 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.- Designing and Modeling Agile Supply Demand Networks.- Framework for Developing an Agile Future-proof Supply Chain.- Developing aWorldwide 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.

• ISBN: 978-1-84882-467-6
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 257
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés