Urban production: State of the art and future trends for urban factories

Herrmann, Christoph; Juraschek, Max; Burggräf, Peter; Kara, Sami

doi:10.1016/j.cirp.2020.05.003

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“…Besides product and service modularity, decentralized manufacturing networks, cellular and flexible processes, and delayed differentiation are other enablers for mass personalization [20,21]. Decentralized and distributed manufacturing systems can offer multiple paths between single manufacturing units for each product, a promising cost-effective and environmentally friendly design option [22]. Under the same personalized product demand, decentralized manufacturing network configurations outperformed centralized manufacturing networks in flexibility and work-in-process [23].…”

Section: Research Background 21 Mass Personalizationmentioning

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“…Urban manufacturing is an approach that is well adapted to its surroundings, occurs in urban areas, and benefits all parties involved [37,38]. An urban factory is defined as a center of value generation located in a city and categorized as intended and unintended [22]. Proximity to customers, suppliers, and employees, and urban-industrial symbiosis are major characteristics of urban factories, which lead to several potentials cited for urban factories.…”

Section: Urban Factorymentioning

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“…Proximity to customers, suppliers, and employees, and urban-industrial symbiosis are major characteristics of urban factories, which lead to several potentials cited for urban factories. Customer involvement and co-creation for a higher degree of personalization, connectedcontinued innovation, shortened lead time and supply chain, reduced value chain and production time and cost, lessened transportation emissions, availability of workforce, especially highly qualified experts, and higher employer attractiveness are some advan-tages related to the former characteristics of urban factories [12][13][14]22]. Utilizing urban infrastructure, cooperation with research institutions and universities, exchange of waste heat, excess energy, and recycled materials are potentially related to the latter [10,[39][40][41][42].…”

Section: Urban Factorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recently published review studies on urban production show that the potential limitations of urban production systems are presently the main subjects of study, and there is a gap between the realization and modelling of the essential interdependencies, and connections between the involved (sub-) systems, as well as technical solutions that contribute to this goal [22]. Some research on urban production partly covers contributing technologies, especially Industry 4.0 and SF technologies, yet there exists a gap in the full integration of SF technologies into urban production.…”

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A Conceptual Definition and Future Directions of Urban Smart Factory for Sustainable Manufacturing

2022

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Today, megatrends such as individualization, climate change, emissions, energy, and resource scarcity, urbanization, and human well-being, impact almost every aspect of people’s lives. Transformative impacts on many sectors are inevitable, and manufacturing is not an exception. Many studies have investigated solutions that focus on diverse directions, with urban production being the focus of many research efforts and recent studies concentrating on Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing technologies. This study investigated the integration of smart factory technologies with urban manufacturing as a solution for the aforementioned megatrends. A literature review on related fields, mass personalization, sustainable manufacturing, urban factory, and smart factory was conducted to analyze the benefits, challenges, and correlations. In addition, applications of smart factory technologies in urban production with several case studies are summarized from the literature review. The integration of smart factory technologies and urban manufacturing is proposed as the urban smart factory which has three major characteristics, human-centric, sustainable, and resilient. To the best of the author’s knowledge, no such definition has been proposed before. Practitioners could use the conceptual definition of an urban smart factory presented in this study as a reference model for enhancement of urban production while academics could benefit from the mentioned future research directions.

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“…To support urban factory development -Decentralised smaller factors 3 will not have specialist technicians on-site to repair machines and pandemics make visits from them difficult; therefore new SE systems could help maintain production despite failure or damage.…”

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A Complexity Framework for Self-Engineering Systems

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2020

Smart Sustain. Manuf. Syst.

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To ensure extended useful life of systems during pandemics such as Covid-19, systems independent of traditional maintenance, repair and servicing will be required. Ambitious new designs are needed, such as self-engineering (SE) systems to automatically respond to return lost functionality and improve product resilience without human intervention. Development in SE has focused on self-healing materials, self-reconfiguring electronics and self-adapting robotics. There has been little work to evaluate SE systems holistically and develop new design tools for creating new SE systems. This paper presents a framework for evaluating the complexity of SE systems and the validation of the framework with expert interviews. There was agreement between experts and the authors for 21/24 of factors for the eight SE examples (four biological and four engineering) evaluated using the framework. Disagreements in results were caused by a lack of knowledge on the system being evaluated or misunderstanding about the system operation.

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Introduction and Motivation

Juraschek

2021

Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management

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Urban production: State of the art and future trends for urban factories

Cited by 43 publications

References 98 publications

A Conceptual Definition and Future Directions of Urban Smart Factory for Sustainable Manufacturing

A Conceptual Definition and Future Directions of Urban Smart Factory for Sustainable Manufacturing

A Complexity Framework for Self-Engineering Systems

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