A Living Lab Platform for Testing Additive Manufacturing Agent-Based Manufacturing Strategies

Lorenzo Giunta; Ben Hicks; Chris Snider; James Gopsill

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2023.03.118

A Living Lab Platform for Testing Additive Manufacturing Agent-Based Manufacturing Strategies

Lorenzo Giunta^*, Ben Hicks, Chris Snider, James Gopsill

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Abstract

Distributed manufacturing systems are seeing increased investment by manufacturers looking for a more responsive, robust, and sustainable means to meet product demand amid market fragility, mass-customisation, sustainability, supply chain uncertainty, national security, Net Zero and the Circular Economy. One such system is Additive Manufacturing farms where numerous machines are housed in warehouses across the globe. The realisation of these systems in industry is offering the opportunity to exploit research in agent-based manufacturing strategies for the brokering and coordination of jobs. Until now, much of the underpinning research has been numerical and validation via empirical study is required to provide confidence in deploying the strategies in an industrial setting. To provide this validation, this paper presents an Opensource Living Lab platform that can be used to evaluate agent-based manufacturing strategies.

Original language	English
Pages	656-661
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2023.03.118
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	33rd CIRP Design Conference - Sydney, Australia Duration: 17 May 2023 → 19 May 2023

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Conference	33rd CIRP Design Conference
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney
Period	17/05/23 → 19/05/23

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✩ This document is the result of research funded by the United Kingdom’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research (EPSRC) Council – EP/R032696/1, EP/W024152/1 and EP/V05113X/1.

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© 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0)

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Agent-Based Manufacturing
Distributed Manufacturing
Living Lab
Validation

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