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Open Design Concepts (Complementary Text for Chapter 1)
Published in Vijaya Kumar Manupati, Goran D. Putnik, Maria Leonilde Rocha Varela, Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems for Industry 4.0, 2023
In this product design, space produced different combinations. Considering that the plan is partially open, the process can occur with different natures; starting on the axis of the abscissa with an unopened plan, it is possible to obtain traditional product design, and as it moves significantly along the process axis (ordered), this nature is sequentially transformed into user-centered design, participatory design, open innovation and user innovation. In the same way, crossing from a completely open plan to process results in the concept of open-source innovation to open design. These new product design structures have driven the concept of open manufacturing, bringing the end user/consumer closer to the design, but have also changed the general perception of the industry, which has sought to get closer to its users (Boisseau et al., 2018).
Dynamic postponement design for crowdsourcing in open manufacturing: A hierarchical joint optimization approach
Published in IISE Transactions, 2020
Jun Wu, Gang Du, Roger J. Jiao
The emerging industrial trends towards the application of the Internet of Things and smart manufacturing exemplify a pervasive integration of various business and operations processes across an extended enterprise, in which outsourcing and early involvement of customers and suppliers become new competitive edges for innovative product and service development (Bauwens, 2009; Füller, 2010). It has been observed that a growing number of companies have moved towards an open approach as their entire business model (Kortmann and Piller, 2016). The rational of such an open business model is echoed by the companies’ intrinsic priority on concentrating on their core competencies while outsourcing peripheral activities to external partners or suppliers (Malhotra and Majchrzak, 2014). In such an open enterprise context, one revolutionary instantiation of the open business model is open manufacturing that essentially transforms product fulfillment to a crowdsourcing process to enable new value-based movements (Ramsden, 2015). Open manufacturing entails a new model of socioeconomic production, in which physical objects are produced in an open, collaborative and distributed manner based on open source principles (Green et al., 2017). It promotes collaboration across different firms, and supports the sharing and exchange of knowledge and services throughout the product fulfillment value chain (Li et al.,2018). Crowdsourcing in open manufacturing suggests itself to be a new form of coordination for production systems that implies a superior broker system coordinating the information and material flows between the stakeholders of production, such that crowdsourcing encompasses the entire value creation process for physical goods including development, manufacturing, sales, support, etc. (Redlich and Bruhns, 2008). Different from the strategy of outsourcing, crowdsourcing utilizes an open call to a crowd to exploit the external resources maximally, rather than emphasizing how to assign a task to a designated agent (Ghezzi et al., 2018).