From Plants to Network: Digitalization as an Enabler for Global Manufacturing

Christoph Benninghaus
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Chapter 13 in Global Manufacturing Management, 2021, pp 179-188 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Nowadays, digital technologies are important drivers for the success of manufacturing companies. If digital technologies are applied, manufacturing activities are typically more efficient and reliable. Thus, offshoring activities from high-wage regions to foreign locations become less probable. However, technologies such as automated-guided vehicles, additive manufacturing, smart glasses, and related solutions like machine learning, Big Data analytics, or augmented reality are often only considered at the plant level and are not rolled out to other plants (or in an unsystematic, resource-inefficient way). This chapter examines which aspects help to make the right location decisions, what a structured technology transfer process looks like, and how technologies can be managed on a global level. These network decisions are related to the network configuration and coordination construct.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-72740-6_13

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