Social Manufacturing ― Fundamentals and Applications

This book introduces social manufacturing, the next generation manufacturing paradigm that covers product life cycle activities that deal with Internet-based organizational and interactive mechanisms under the context of socio-technical systems in the fields of industrial and production engineering. Like its subject, the book's approach is multi-disciplinary, including manufacturing systems, operations management, computational social sciences and information systems applications. It reports on the latest research findings regarding the social manufacturing paradigm, the architecture, configuration and execution of social manufacturing systems and more. Further, it describes the individual technologies enabled by social manufacturing for each topic, supported by case studies. The technologies discussed include manufacturing resource minimalization and their socialized reorganizations, blockchain models in cybersecurity, computing and decision-making, social business relationships and organizational networks, open product design, social sensors and extended cyber-physical systems, and social factory and inter-connections.

This book helps engineers and managers in industry to practice social manufacturing, as well as offering a systematic reference resource for researchers in manufacturing. Students also benefit from the detailed discussions of the latest research and technologies that will have been put into practice by the time they graduate.

Pingyu Jiang is professor of the state key laboratory for manufacturing systems engineering at Xi’an Jiatong University (XJTU), China. He received his Ph.D degree in mechanical engineering from XJTU in 1991 and held Humboldt and JSPS international research fellowships from 1995 to 1999 in Germany and Japan respectively. Dr. Jiang has been a faculty member at XJTU since 1991 and was promoted to full professor in 1999. He also served as vice dean of school of mechanical engineering, XJTU from 2003 to 2006. He is either active trustee or deputy head in several divisions of nation-wide academic societies such as China Mechanical Engineering Society, China Artificial Intelligence Society, etc. Dr. Jiang is author or co-author of more than 200 papers and 3 monographs. His current research interest includes systems engineering for manufacturing and services, including social manufacturing, cyber-physical systems, product service systems, open collaborative product development, innovation method applications.