Digital manufacturing toolbox for supporting the manufacturing SMEs

Kaartinen, Heidi; Pieskä, Sakari; Vähäsöyrinki, Jouni

doi:10.1109/coginfocom.2016.7804527

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“…According to Martinsuo et al [28], an organization's size is critical for defining how to adopt new technologies, as theories that have proven useful for large enterprises are not applicable to small businesses. For this reason, several studies [29][30][31] explicitly claim that manufacturing SMEs need help in their digital transformation because they are competing under inferior conditions than large companies.…”

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New Business Models for Sustainable Spare Parts Logistics: A Case Study

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Additive manufacturing of spare parts significantly impacts industrial, social, and environmental aspects. However, a literature review shows that: (i) academic papers on the adoption of additive manufacturing have focused mainly on large companies; (ii) the methods required by SMEs to adopt new technologies differ from those employed by large companies; and (iii) recent studies suggest that a suitable way to help small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt new additive manufacturing technologies from the academic world is by presenting case studies in which SMEs are involved. Given the increasing number of global SMEs (i.e., SMEs that manufacture locally and sell globally), we claim that these companies need to be assisted in adopting spare-parts additive manufacturing for the sake of resource and environmental sustainability. To bridge this gap, the purpose of this article is to present a case study approach that shows how a digital supply chain for spare parts has the potential to bring about changes in business models with significant benefits for both global SMEs (more effective logistic management), customers (response time), and the environment (reduced energy, emissions, raw materials, and waste).

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Section: Introduction and Literature Reviewmentioning

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“…The problem of integration of various data can be approached in different ways. In [7], authors develop digital manufacturing toolbox aiming to assist, in particular, manufacturing SMEs, which may struggle to have sufficient resources for research, development and innovation (RDI) activates. That work defines digital manufacturing as tailored, case-specific integration of various technologies for the Production automation, Digital scanning and measurement, Manufacturing design and production simulation, Robotics, and, last, but not least additive manufacturing.…”

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Towards a web-based framework for computer-aided manufacturing

Lobov¹,

Martikkala²,

Biswas³

2019

Instrumentation Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications

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Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) helps to see how manufacturing processes could be executed checking if desired products can be made and at what cost. Usually, a 3D model of a targeted product is used as one of the inputs for CAM. Although actively used for some application domains and despite of well-developed CAM technologies and tools frameworks, further acceptance of CAM is hindered by, on one hand, a restricted access and, on another, knowledge needed to use CAM tools and methods. This article outlines a concept for web-based integration framework architecture for CAM. It defines main stakeholders and their roles in efficient product development and virtual commissioning.

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“…A target toolset, or toolkit, for digital manufacturing has been suggested by [6], considering five families: (a) manufacturing design and production simulation toolsfocus on value addition and waste reduction -e.g. : manufacturing planning, layout planning, process simulation and lean manufacturing, (b) production automation tools, e.g.…”

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“…3 Towards a Smart Manufacturing Toolkit for SMEs [6] proposed a Digital Manufacturing (DM) toolkit for SMEs. DM allows SMEs to virtually prototype and test multiple products and process designs; thus reducing design risks and ultimately costs.…”

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“…The evolution in the definition of "manufacturing" [4] has led to the establishment of new requirements for the development of manufacturing toolkits as a set of methods, tools, and practices. Different manufacturing initiatives, such as lean manufacturing [5] and digital manufacturing [6] have developed their own toolkits over the years that may help manufacturing enterprises in their shift towards more efficient production operations. These toolkits include a diverse range of items from cutting-edge CAx technologies, working tools, managerial principles, training methods, organizational practices, etc.…”

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Towards a Smart Manufacturing Toolkit for SMEs

Mittal

Romero

Wuest

2018

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Technology, human and financial capitals will always be a significant constraint for manufacturing Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Keeping that in mind, this paper introduces a modular Smart Manufacturing (SM) Toolkit for SMEs as a set of technologies, methods, tools, and practices that can help manufacturing enterprises to increase their SM capabilities. The modular SM toolkit is composed of seven individual specialized toolboxes, which cover both technical and business management aspects of a successful digital transformation in a manufacturing SME. In addition, the various SME functions that can be supported with each individual toolbox are presented as well. The paper concludes with two short demonstration case studies as a means of an early validation mechanism for the SM toolkit in refinement.

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Digital manufacturing toolbox for supporting the manufacturing SMEs

Cited by 13 publications

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New Business Models for Sustainable Spare Parts Logistics: A Case Study

New Business Models for Sustainable Spare Parts Logistics: A Case Study

Towards a web-based framework for computer-aided manufacturing

Towards a Smart Manufacturing Toolkit for SMEs

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