Dispersed Manufacturing Networks : Challenges for Research and Practice - Dekkers, Rob.; SpringerLink (Online service) (London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2009)
Prologue -- Industrial Networks of the Future: Review of Research and Practice -- Networks as Complex Adaptive Systems -- Dispersed Network Manufacturing: An Emerging Form of Collaboration Networks -- Self-Similarity and Criticality in Dispersed Manufacturing: A Contribution to Production Networks Control -- Collaborations in Industrial Networks: The Co-Evolutionary Perspective -- Control and Coordination in Industrial Networks -- Designing and Modeling Agile Supply-Demand Networks -- Framework for Developing an Agile Future-Proof Supply Chain -- International Issues of Industrial Networks -- Developing a Worldwide Production Network -- Planning in Companies with Dispersed Capacity -- Managing Product Variety in Multinational Corporation Supply Chains: A Simulation Study Investigating Flow Time -- Set-Up and Operation of Global Engineering Networks Spanning Industrialized and Emerging Economies -- Epilogue -- What Follows.
Keywords: Engineering economics; Engineering economy; Production management; Manufactures; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing; Operations Management; Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes