Abstract:Today, the concept of factory or production facility is becoming more ambiguous. Actually, in many industries collaboration between independent production centers or manufacturing networks is growing to try to respond efficiently to more demanding market requirements in an increasingly globalized environment. In some industries, such as aeronautics, electronics and automotive, global manufacturing virtual networks (GMVNs) are appearing ever more strongly based on a new manufacturing architecture model with a h… Show more
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