Campus Units
Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Publication Date
11-9-2020
Journal or Book Title
Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems
Volume
4
Issue
3
First Page
299
Last Page
302
Research Focus Area(s)
Operations Research
DOI
10.1520/SSMS20200055
Abstract
Digital tools for design and manufacturing have led to a new revolution in how products are conceptualized and made. These advancements have led to the democratization of ideation and creation of personalized products, as well as many other innovations. However, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has exposed a critical flaw in the digital thread: the manufacturing systems of today remain inflexible to rapid changes brought on by emergency and crisis responses. The inefficiencies of this inflexibility caused by disconnects in supply and demand chains have become especially evident. We present a vision for a digital system—an open online product marketplace—that would enable product designers to rapidly connect with capable producers in meeting urgent customer demands. As such, this digital system would facilitate ordering, orchestration, and fulfillment, as well as continuous improvement of manufacturing-as-a-service systems. It would support flexible, sustainable, and resilient supply and demand chains beyond the COVID-19 period by enabling rapid specification matching for tailored or customized products to existing available manufacturing capabilities.
Copyright Owner
ASTM International
Copyright Date
2020
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Haapala, Karl R.; Kim, Kyoung-Yun; Okudan Kremer, Gül E.; Kubat, Rony; Shilkrot, Roy; and Sciammarella, Federico M., "An Open Online Product Marketplace to Overcome Supply and Demand Chain Inefficiencies in Times of Crisis" (2020). Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Publications. 262.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/imse_pubs/262
Included in
Emergency and Disaster Management Commons, Industrial Engineering Commons, Manufacturing Commons, Systems Engineering Commons
Comments
This is a manuscript of an article published as K. Haapala, K. Kim, G. Kremer, R. Kubat, R. Shilkrot, and F. Sciammarella, "An Open Online Product Marketplace to Overcome Supply and Demand Chain Inefficiencies in Times of Crisis," Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems 4, no. 3 (2020): 299-302. DOI: 10.1520/SSMS20200055. Posted with permission.