Description
Book SynopsisThis book contains contemporary discussions on technology, business models, and the adoption of digital manufacturing systems. The book's initial chapters cover technological details underpinning the digital manufacturing systems, for example, cyber-physical systems and digital twins. Next, the book discusses how organizations modify their business models using concepts such as servitization and platforms to leverage digital manufacturing. The latter chapters focus on how a country's unique economic and infrastructural context influences digital manufacturing adoption in terms of technology and business models and frameworks to evaluate readiness for digital manufacturing. With perspectives from different continents, the book appeals to academic researchers and industry alike.
Table of ContentsPart I: Technological Foundations Professor Ted Lirn
National Taiwan Ocean University
Taiwan
Professor Raj Roy
City University of London
UK
Professor Serzio Terzi
Politecnico di Milano
Italy
Professor Marco Taisch
Politecnico di Milano
Italy
Professor G Saravana Kumar
IIT Madras
India
Dr U Chandrasekhar
Wipro 3D
India
Professor N Arunachalam
IIT Madras
India
Part II: Business Models Professor Helen Rogers
Technical University of Nuremberg Georg Simon Ohm
Germany
Professor Fiona Lettice
University of East Anglia
UK
Professor Tim Baines
Aston Business School
UK
Professor M Naim
Cardiff Business School
UK
Professor Petri Pulli
University of Oulu
Finland
Professor P Wolf
University of Southern Denmark
Denmark
Professor E Ferrari
University of Insubria
Italy
Ramachandran S & Jeff Kavanaugh
Infosys Knowledge Institute
India/USA
Professor L Prakash Sai
IIT Madras
India
Part III: Cross-country Comparisons Professor Shams Rahman
RMIT University
Australia
Professor Amrik Sohal
Monash University
Australia
Dr J Srai
University of Cambridge (Dept. of Eng. Institute for Manufacturing (IfM))
UK
Professor Vinod Singhal
Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller College of Business )
USA
Professor Min Zhang
Queen's Management School
Ireland
Professor C Tang
UCLA (Anderson School of Management)
USA
Professor Ravi Shankar
IIT Delhi
India
Part IV: Evaluation Approaches and Readiness Assessment Dr Gavin, Lai
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
China
Professor X Zhao
CEIBS-GLP Centre for Innovation in Supply Chains and Services
China
Professor N Subramanian
University of Sussex Business School
UK
Professor KD Thoben
University of Bremen
Germany
Professor M K Tiwari
IIT Kharagpur/NITIE
India
Dr Shankar Venugopal
Mahindra & Mahindra
India
