Building Optimal Consortia in Smart Production Ecosystems

Deepak Dhungana, Alois Haselböck, Rubén Ruiz-Torrubiano, Stefan Wallner

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Abstract

One of the key components of a smart production ecosystem is a marketplace that brings the different stakeholders involved in manufacturing product lines with variability requirements together. It is often not possible for a single factory to take on a production order to fully fulfill these requirements: multiple factories need to be involved and must work together as a consortium. In practice, setting up such consortia can be a lengthy process with several strategic, legal and organizational aspects to consider, which hinders short-term single-contract collaborations. This paper aims to present an approach for building a consortium in a marketplace environment by means of short-term contracts to quickly accept multi-factory manufacturing orders. In this setting, factory operators provide offers to fulfill one or more manufacturing steps involved in a published production tender. We propose a novel approach to achieve consensus between the participants regarding the contractual obligations, which results in an optimal smart contract between the consortium participants. The optimal consortium is selected based on a predefined objective function, like minimizing the overall production costs, minimizing the number or partners, $$\textrm{CO}:2$$ footprints, energy consumption or transportation efforts. The preference of all participating factories is considered.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProduction Processes and Product Evolution in the Age of Disruption - Proceedings of the 9th Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual Production Conference CARV2023 and the 11th World Mass Customization and Personalization Conference MCPC2023
EditorsFrancesco Gabriele Galizia, Marco Bortolini
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages790-798
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783031348204
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Jul 2023
EventProduction Processes and Product Evolution in the Age of Disruption - Proceedings of the 9th Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual Production Conference CARV2023 and the 11th World Mass Customization and Personalization Conference MCPC2023 - Bologna, Italy
Duration: 20 Jun 202323 Jun 2023

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering
ISSN (Print)2195-4356
ISSN (Electronic)2195-4364

Conference

ConferenceProduction Processes and Product Evolution in the Age of Disruption - Proceedings of the 9th Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual Production Conference CARV2023 and the 11th World Mass Customization and Personalization Conference MCPC2023
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityBologna
Period20/06/2323/06/23

Keywords

  • Multi-factory production
  • Smart contract
  • Smart production ecosystem

Research fields

  • Software Process Improvement
  • Product Configuration

IMC Research Focuses

  • Software engineering and intelligent systems

ÖFOS 2012 - Austrian Fields of Study

  • 102015 Information systems

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