Cambridge Supply Networks Activities

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Cambridge Supply NetworksActivities

• May 2004

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• IFM Supply Network Projects

• Global Manufacturing Virtual Networks
• Supply Chain Performance Measurement
• Supply Network Capability
• Technology Road-mapping
• Make or buy decisions
• International Manufacturing
• Internet based Manufacturing
• Auto ID deployment
• IMRC Responsive Supply Networks

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Reconfigurable Supply Networks

• AIMS
• to examine issues which influence the formation
  and functioning of todays supply networks
• to develop a set of key tools and enablers that
  support the ability to reconfigure an established
  supply network

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Reconfigurable Supply Networks

• MULTI LEVEL
• FOCUSSED OBJECTIVES
• Policy to determine existing economic, legal and
  legislative which influence supply chain
  structure and operation
• Strategic to develop models and rationales for
  different supply network configurations
• Operational to establish effective supply
  network performance measurement schemes
• Technological to examine key enabling
  technologies which support supply network
  reconfigurability
• Overall To establish a set of specifications
  for assessing supply chain reconfigurability

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Grid Manufacturing
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• What is Grid Manufacturing?
• The (dynamic) harnessing of significant,
  disparate manufacturing capabilities and
  resources in order to satisfy one or more
  business requirements
• Key elements
• capabilities
• connections/linkages
• interoperability

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What is Grid Manufacturing?

• grid interconnected mesh of operations and
  services
• consumer essentially sees a single supply route
  for his needs
• collaboration towards common different business
  goals
• bring manufacturing resources together
  sometimes these are distributed physically
• focus on network efficiency c.f. efficiency of
  stand alone operations

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Why establish a Manufacturing Grid?
Establish or Evolve, or Design or Develop?

• Innovation challenges
• enable greater levels of customer response and
  customisation, especially, unpredictable customer
  demands
• cope with faster and faster technology
  development
• cope with complexity of system
• Efficiency challenges
• maximise the use of existing manufacturing supply
  chain resources, and dispersed expertise and
  professional services
• exploit existing developments in IT
  infrastructure, virtual enterprise management,
  collaborative design etc
• Competition challenges
• complementary specialist network and quick
  adaptation

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Objectives What will we do?

• Understanding the law or rules of inter-firm
  collaboration, co-development, and co-evolution
• Standards defining a common set of ways in which
  a company should organise itself and interface
  with other companies (at legal/IP, IT, finanial,
  material flow levels)
• Tools what enabling tools that assist a company
  wanting to
• a) provide services onto the grid(s) and
• b) want to locate and engage services off the
  grid
• Support hub defining what a service hub to
  support Grid Manufacturing (in the UK)

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• Background What has been done?

• RELATED MANUFACTURING SERVICES
• Existing manufacturing activities embracing one
  or more issues in Grid Manufacturing
• Virtual Manufacturing Enterprise
• Collaborative Design
• Internet Based Operations
• E Business/E Manufacturing
• Supply Networks/Echelons
• make or buy decision and specialisation of firm
• different collaborative modes / forms (JV,
  Licence )
• international resource identification and
  exploitation

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• Background What has been done?

• EXISTING GRID OPERATIONS
• Areas where interconnected, distributed
  capabilities have been effectively integrated
  during design, operation or management
• Grid Computing
• Power Grid
• Media/Telecoms Services
• Travel Services
• others such as brain studies, biology,
  immunology ...

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Key Issues for Investigation (1)

• infrastructural requirements for an effective
  manufacturing grid (IT, legal, HR, operations,
  technological )
• measures of performance in distributed
  manufacturing services
• key information requirements and decision
  guidelines in establishing and operating a grid
• a roadmap towards an effective UK grid and
  identification of support functions
• working exemplars

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Key Issues for Investigation (2)

• Leading firms strategy for creating and
  appropriating value by dynamically re-positioning
  in value chain
• Leading firms coordination capabilities
• managing innovative idea and clarifying the
  project demands
• identifying resources and potentials
• persuading and influencing candidates become
  partners
• integrating required resources and controlling
  the project
• sharing the value and fostering the virtual
  network
• Interactive and evolutionary relationship between
  OEMs and contractual service providers co-growth
• New manufacturing capability and its development
  process in the grid manufacturing paradigm

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Key Issues for Investigation (3) a Framework
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Approach (needs work)

• Review / assembly of existing tools/services
• Establish required set of standards for
  interfacing / representing capabilities
• Focus Studies in specific aspects of GM
• Simulation/Demonstration of mini grid in
  operation
• Requirements for a 3rd party support hub in the
  UK
• Sectoral analysis
• Establish potential architecture
• Establish GRID calculator determining minimum
  energy, cost from feasible routings
• Grid performance measure development

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Deliverables

• Architecture
• Standards for enabling / supporting
  participation of organisations interaction
  between organisations
• Recommended tools which support GRID operations
• Practical Demonstrations
• Focus Study Findings
• Recommendations on requirements for a UK GRID
  service
• Design (strategy) process for grid manufacturing
• Partnering process
• Grid manufacturing maturity road map