Social manufacturing as a sustainable paradigm for mass individualization

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Abstract

With increasing product personalization and open innovation, the manufacturing paradigm has been transforming to a more decentralized and socialized one. Social manufacturing was proposed as a new paradigm for industry. It extends the crowdsourcing idea to the manufacturing area. By establishing cyber-physical-social connection via decentralized social media, various communities can be formed as complex, dynamic autonomous systems to co-create customized and personalized products and services. This article presents the concept and characteristics of social manufacturing including distributed, adaptive, and self-organization. It also addresses social intelligence in proactive decision-making for organization of socialized resources and producers in the life-cycle of product.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1961-1968
Number of pages8
JournalProceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture
Volume230
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Oct 2016

Keywords

  • Social manufacturing
  • cyber-physical-social system
  • mass individualization
  • product personalization
  • sustainable paradigm

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