Research Issues on Customer-Oriented and Eco-friendly Networks for Healthy Fashionable Goods

Abstract

Abstract. Needs and expectations of specific target groups -such as elderly, obese, disabled, or diabetic persons-are arising as challenging opportunities for European companies which are asked to supply small series of functional and fashionable goods of high quality, affordable price and eco-compatible. In order to design, develop, produce and distribute such products, a new framework and related components of collaborative networking need to be developed, enabling the product to stay as long as digital to produce on-demand. Research is necessary in many topics like: a) consumer integrated collaborative eco-oriented design, b) radical renewal by the adoption of Rapid Manufacturing technologies; and c) the overall integration and co-ordination of business processes and information exchange by a set of new (web)services for network design and adhoc (re-)configuration, for real-time planning, forecasting and replenishment, d) tracking and tracing of ecology and quality.

Eco-fashion as a need of modern society

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Influence of 3D printing on transport: a theory and experts judgment based conceptual model

“…This development is associated with two extreme scenarios: centralised versus decentralised manufacturing (Li, Jia, Cheng, & Hu, 2016). Most publications envisage that 3D printing means a more decentralised manufacturing, offering greater proximity to customers and responsiveness to market needs (Fornasiero, Chiodi, Carpanzano, & Carneiro, 2010;Manners-Bell & Lyon, 2012), possibilities to cut out middlemen (Jia, Wang, Mustafee, & Hao, 2016), and even a "de-globalisation" or reshoring of manufacturing to high-income countries (Campbell, Williams, Ivanova, & Garrett, 2011). This is driven by the fact that designs can travel digitally across the globe (Janssen et al, 2014) and may even replace movement of products (Garrett, 2014).…”

Proposal of a reference model for fashionable and healthy goods production in SME networks

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