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production systems (human integration and friendliness, | production systems (human integration and friendliness, | ||
Kühnle 2010)." | Kühnle 2010). | ||
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It develops interactions at all levels (material and immaterial, | |||
product and service, man-machine) also because the system | |||
tends to develop interacting and compatible base-components | |||
and technologies which make the processes and products | |||
evolve and innovate (Arthur, 2010). | |||
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It can tolerate errors, omissions, or failures committed by the | |||
individual micro-producers without jeopardizing the overall | |||
functioning of the system" | |||
(http://www.transitsocialinnovation.eu/content/original/Book%20covers/Local%20PDFs/93%20SF%20Bianchini,%20and%20Maffei%20Distributed%20economies%20paper%202013.pdf) | (http://www.transitsocialinnovation.eu/content/original/Book%20covers/Local%20PDFs/93%20SF%20Bianchini,%20and%20Maffei%20Distributed%20economies%20paper%202013.pdf) | ||
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Characteristics
General properties of Distributed Microproduction:
- Flexibility
It is able to create diverse configurations of actors and connections in the realization of processes to ‘modulate’ production: producing the same product in a different way, producing different types of product, different versions of similar products, or of the same product (variants or multiples).
- Scalability/Adaptability:
It is able to have production processes vary (unique items, small series or ‘multiplied’ products, batches as the sum of small serial products). At the same time it is able to expand or shrink in size (number of nodes) and geographical extent (of the network). Moreover, the processes or practices (technological, organizational, social) that originate a specific productive context can be replicated and adapted for transfer to other contexts.
- Transparency:
Productive processes and performances are trackable, visible, comprehensible, and shareable. Moreover, the system enables the constant development of applications for the info-visualization and monitoring/control of resources (‘maker maps’) in relation to the increasing incorporation of control devices1 and technologies in products and means of production.
- Interoperability:
It enables a diversified set of production competences and skills to coexist and cooperate. It promotes forms of active cooperation between people and traditional and automated production systems (human integration and friendliness, Kühnle 2010).
- Connectivity:
It develops interactions at all levels (material and immaterial, product and service, man-machine) also because the system tends to develop interacting and compatible base-components and technologies which make the processes and products evolve and innovate (Arthur, 2010).
- Error-friendliness or resilience:
It can tolerate errors, omissions, or failures committed by the individual micro-producers without jeopardizing the overall functioning of the system" (http://www.transitsocialinnovation.eu/content/original/Book%20covers/Local%20PDFs/93%20SF%20Bianchini,%20and%20Maffei%20Distributed%20economies%20paper%202013.pdf)
More Information
- Report: Microproduction Everywhere