A Model to Classify Manufacturing Archetypes for Distributed Production

Customer demand for more individualization is shifting production models towards decentralized ones. In order to keep up with a heterogeneous class of clients in a turbulent environment, companies are always more inclined towards mass customization. Realizing different kinds of products in line with customer needs without losing the advantages in terms of efficiency of mass production requires new configurations in manufacturing firms as well as a new kind and higher extent of collaboration with customers in the design process. Starting from the analysis of the literature concerning distributed manufacturing, cloud manufacturing and customer involvement, this paper proposes a model aimed at classifying manufacturing archetypes for distributed production.

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