Bridging Gaps in Cloud Manufacturing with 3D Printing

Presentation of our research paper "Bridging Gaps in Cloud Manufacturing with 3D Printing" at the Additive Fertigung/3D Druck – Technologie, Auswirkungen und Chancen Workshop of the GI Informatik 2016 in Klagenfurt, Austria.

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1. BRIDGING GAPS IN CLOUD MANUFACTURING WITH 3D PRINTING Christoph Hochreiner, Philipp Waibel and Michael Borkowski
2. Background
3. Today’s Manufacturing Industry ‣ Long term contracts with suppliers ‣ Inflexible production lines ‣ Hardly any failure mechanism to - Mitigate failures of manufacturing machines - Mitigate interruptions from suppliers 3
4. Challenges for Tomorrow’s Manufacturing Industry ‣ Short product lifecycle ‣ Short time-to-market ‣ Increasing financial competition ‣ Flexibility to replace supplier on short notice 4 ➡ Need for flexible manufacturing processes ➡ Need for inter-organisational manufacturing
5. Solution Approach Cloud Manufacturing Apply concepts from Cloud Computing 
 to the manufacturing domain. 5 But what is Cloud Computing all about?
6. Cloud Computing Operating your own IT on-premise 6 Using IT capacity from the cloud ‣ High upfront investment ‣ High maintenance cost ‣ Fixed amount of processing capabilities ‣ Not fault-tolerant ➡ Similar to todays manufacturing industry ➡ Promising model for tomorrows manufacturing industry ‣ Pay-per-use ‣ Lower maintenance cost ‣ Linear (continuous) scaling ‣ Fault-tolerant
7. Cloud Manufacturing ‣ Virtualize manufacturing assets ‣ Lease and release manufacturing assets on-demand ‣ Pay-per-use through metered usage 7 ➡Transforming production-oriented manufacturing to 
 service-oriented manufacturing
8. Exemplary Scenario
9. Exemplary Scenario 9 Manufacturing Process Virtualised Services s1 s2 s3 s4
10. Exemplary Scenario 10 Manufacturing Process Virtualised Services s1 s2 Company 1 (Germany) Company 1 (United Kingdom) s3 s4
11. Exemplary Scenario 11 Manufacturing Process Manufacturing Network Virtualised Services s1 s2 Company 1 (Germany) Company 1 (United Kingdom) s3 s4
12. Exemplary Scenario 12 Manufacturing Process Manufacturing Network Virtualised Services Supplier 2 (Spain) Supplier 1 (Austria) s1 s2 Company 1 (Germany) Company 1 (United Kingdom) s3 s4
13. Exemplary Scenario 13 Manufacturing Process Manufacturing Network Virtualised Services Supplier 2 (Spain) Supplier 1 (Austria) s1 s2 Company 1 (Germany) Company 1 (United Kingdom) s3 s4
14. Exemplary Scenario 14 Manufacturing Process Manufacturing Network Virtualised Services Supplier 2 (Spain) Supplier 1 (Austria) s1 s2 Company 1 (Germany) Company 1 (United Kingdom) s3 s4 New Supplier (Anywhere in Europe)
15. Challenges for the Replacement of a Supplier ‣Requires new logistic concepts for - Starting material - Produced goods ‣Requires production capabilities on short notice ‣Requires adaption of the production line for small batches 15
16. 3D Printing to the Rescue
17. Exemplary Scenario Revisited 17 Manufacturing Process Manufacturing Network Virtualised Services Supplier 2 (Spain) Supplier 1 (Austria) s1 s2 Company 1 (Germany) Company 1 (United Kingdom) s3 s4
18. Exemplary Scenario Revisited 18 Manufacturing Process Manufacturing Network Virtualised Services Supplier 2 (Spain) Supplier 1 (Austria) s1 s2 Company 1 (Germany) Company 1 (United Kingdom) s3 s4 Additive Manufacturer 1 (Germany)
19. Challenges ‣Quality assurance for 3D printed products ‣Common blueprint format ‣Raw material provisioning for printing supply ‣Transport logistics for printed products ‣Parallel usage for multiple additive manufacturing providers 19
20. Q & A Christoph Hochreiner c.hochreiner@infosys.tuwien.ac.at http://www.crema-project.eu