The Role of the Internet of Things for Increased Autonomy and Agility in Collaborative Production Environments

ICT-based solution approach for collaborative delivery of customised products

“…To improve product creation at the present level of market competition, manufacturers have to continually utilize computer and network technology to develop enterprise information systems and adopt business network with the view to reduce development cost (Levy and Powell, 2000). Information technology has the potential to revolutionize the way a small business adapts to new business opportunities through lowering transaction costs, reduced marketing and communication costs and global expansion and improved business-to-business networking (Johnston, 1998;Isenberg et al, 2011). This networking is crucial to small businesses and ICT-based technology enables SMEs to expand their networking and business opportunities onto a global stage with minimum capital investment (Li et al, 2005).…”

Conceptual Framework for Applying Internet of Things in Production Systems for Sensing Enterprises

“…Houyou et al,(2012) design an automation system in manufacturing to support flexibility and agility in manufacturing. Isenberg et al,(2011) research about suitability and cooperation in collaborative production environments for autonomic and agile processes based on IoT.…”

“…This level gives to the objects the physical part to store information and give them intelligence. This part is formed by RFID (Cao et al,2011;Castro et al,2011;Hu et al,2011;Isenberg et al, 2011;Liu et Xu, 2013;Shengduo et Jian, 2012;Vossiek et al,2010; and two dimensional code (Lee et al,2012;Lvqing, 2011;Meyer et al,2011;Stephan et al,010;Zhiliang et al,2013). For reading these ID-technologies, there are sensors et al, 2011;Hu et al,2011;Qu et al, 2012;Vossiek et al,2010;Zhang et et al,2014) and cameras (Lee et al, 2012;Shengduo et Jian, 2012).…”

“…In Production Planning, for example, inventory management application (Cuiyun et Yuanhang, 2010;Isenberg et al,2011) to know the current inventory and to plan in base of this information; or tracking management system (Cuiyun etYuanhang, 2010;Wuest et al,2012) to know the times of transporting or production and planning with this information.…”

The Internet of Experiences – Towards an Experience-Centred Innovation Approach

“…The IoT is realized through networked systems of self-organizing objects that interact autonomously, and related processes that lead to an expected convergence of physical things with the virtual world of the internet [10]. One of the central aspects of the IoT is that objects are able to process information, communicate amongst each other and with their environment, and make autonomous decisions, thus becoming "intelligent" [9], [11], [12]. Closely related to the principles of IoT are intelligent products (IP).…”