Digital Manufacturing Clause Samples

Digital Manufacturing. Literature review on digital manufacturing is quite rich of relevant sub-streams of research. A first one is highlighting the role of 3D printers on affording opportunities for various component makers to deliver physical products through the digital channel and thus co-creating new avenues for new value (Grove & Kohli 2012). 3D printing is considered as a game changer for traditional production models and competitive rules: design and production will be tightly coupled through experimentation (▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2013). The explosion of 3D printing, laser cutting, and garage- scale CNC ▇▇▇▇▇ have created contexts of democratized technological practices: has given hackers and hobbyists modes of production previously only available to large organizations (▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ et al. 2013). A sub-stream related to the process of digitization (aka “process of ABC”) is reporting that the next phase in the digitization of the manufacturing sector is driven by four disruptions: rise in data volumes, emergence of analytics and business-intelligence capabilities; new forms of human- machine interaction; and improvements in transferring digital instructions to the physical world (McKinsey Quarterly 2015). Rapid prototyping technologies are impacting business processes because the offer this knowledge to the people (▇▇▇▇▇ 2007). Specifically thy impact the work of traditional craftsmanship involving the knowledge and skill-set of particular practical arts. By bringing new methods and technologies for production (e.g. digital desktop fabrication), knowledge work, craft, and design are recombined in novel ways (▇▇▇▇▇ & Ree 2010). About end-users DiDIY technologies are empowering people to create applications for smart environments that exist both in the natural and in the digital world (De Roeck et al. 2012). Within this context the challenge is on supporting – at the user level – good understandings of technology and cultivating practices around it (▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ et al. 1990; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2014). At the same time recent developments in digital fabrication have opened avenues for creating artefacts with embedded digital information easily (▇▇▇▇ 2013). Additive Manufacturing and Internet of Things provide far more opportunities for creating positive network externalities. They exhibit complementarities more frequently than physical assets because the potential joint value of a combination of two digitized assets often exceeds the sum of the parts of their value in isolation (▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2014). Som...