Product configurators have become an important enabler for enterprises to achieve product customization in order to address individual customers’ requirements. Despite adoption across a wide range of application domains from automotive to consumer goods, even state-of-the-art product configuration systems are limited in their ability to quickly respond to changes in the production systems that deliver the goods specified. Enabled by the emerging paradigm of cloud manufacturing, the authors propose a “configurable configurator” that is automatically updated to reflect changes in the supply chain. The paper reports the ongoing research and development towards a dynamically generated system that supports product configuration, visualization and assessment from the cloud manufacturing concept of Manufacturing-as-a-Service (MaaS). In addition to outlining the architecture of such a system, an overview of its modules and integration to the cloud manufacturing platform is described. Lastly, the case study of a customizable façade module is presented with two different scenarios to demonstrate the prototype implementation and validate the proposed approach.
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ASME 2013 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference collocated with the 41st North American Manufacturing Research Conference
June 10–14, 2013
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Manufacturing Engineering Division
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978-0-7918-5546-1
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A Product Configurator for Cloud Manufacturing
Arthur L. K. Yip
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Arthur L. K. Yip
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
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Jonathan R. Corney
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Jonathan R. Corney
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
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Ananda P. Jagadeesan
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Ananda P. Jagadeesan
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
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Yi Qin
Yi Qin
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
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Arthur L. K. Yip
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Jonathan R. Corney
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Ananda P. Jagadeesan
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Yi Qin
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Paper No:
MSEC2013-1250, V002T02A010; 9 pages
Published Online:
November 27, 2013
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Yip, ALK, Corney, JR, Jagadeesan, AP, & Qin, Y. "A Product Configurator for Cloud Manufacturing." Proceedings of the ASME 2013 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference collocated with the 41st North American Manufacturing Research Conference. Volume 2: Systems; Micro and Nano Technologies; Sustainable Manufacturing. Madison, Wisconsin, USA. June 10–14, 2013. V002T02A010. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/MSEC2013-1250
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