Complexity analysis of manufacturing service ecosystem: a mapping-based computational experiment approach

Xue Xiao, Shufang Wang, Lejun Zhang and Cheng-zhi Qin

International Journal of Production Research, 2019, vol. 57, issue 2, 357-378

Abstract: The trend of servitisation is increasingly affecting manufacturing enterprises. Traditional manufacturing enterprises cannot handle the related challenges of service innovation by themselves. Recently, manufacturing service ecosystem (MSE) has been proposed to support service innovation by facilitating collaboration. The construction and development of MSE need to handle a series of complexities, such as individual complexity, interaction complexity and ecological complexity. However, it is still very difficult to clearly identify the possible effect of various influence factors on MSE evolution, which is necessary analyse the complex dynamic interactive relationship among participants, so as to maintain the sustainable and healthy development of MSE. To change such a situation, this paper proposes a mapping-based computational experiment approach to analyse the evolution of MSE. This approach has three main parts, i.e. model construction of real world, model mapping of computational system and experiment evaluation of various factors of MSE evolution. By adopting the proposed approach, several case studies are conducted to investigate the possible effect of cooperation preference on the MSE evolution in various market environments. The results demonstrate that the proposed approach is effective.

Date: 2019
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