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Cloud-based manufacturing-as-a-service environment for customized products
Get PDFThis paper describes the paradigm of cloud-based services which are used to envisage a new generation of configurable manufacturing systems. Unlike previous approaches to mass customization (that simply reprogram individual machines to produce specific shapes) the system reported here is intended to enable the customized production of technologically complex products by dynamically configuring a manufacturing supply chain. In order to realize such a system, the resources (i.e. production capabilities) have to be designed to support collaboration throughout the whole production network, including their adaption to customer-specific production. The flexible service composition as well as the appropriate IT services required for its realization show many analogies with common cloud computing approaches. For this reason, this paper describes the motivation and challenges that are related to cloud-based manufacturing and illustrates emerging technologies supporting this vision byestablishing an appropriate Manufacturing-as-a-Service environment based on manufacturing service descriptions
Henry Wells Lawrence Memorial Lectures, Number 2
Get PDFSecond, third, and fourth lectures in a series established in honor of Henry Wells Lawrence, Professor of History at Connecticut College.
Contents of this volume are: The Pattern of Democratic Change in the United States: Andrew Jackson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., Associate Professor of History, Harvard University The Problem of the Democratization of Germany, Carl Joachim Friedrich, Professor of Government, Harvard University Variations on the Liberal Theme, Alpheus Thomas Mason, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton Universityhttps://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccbooks/1008/thumbnail.jp
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