Intelligent products: a step towards a more effective project delivery chain
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The paper presents a control system being built at Helsinki University of Technology, which is based on distributed programming, and wireless identification technologies, which enables the material flows in the project delivery chains to be controlled from the inside of the material flow itself.About:
This article is published in Computers in Industry.The article was published on 2003-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 232 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Extreme project management & Project planning.read more
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Sustainable manufacturing: trends and research challenges
Marco Garetti,Marco Taisch +1 more
TL;DR: Sustainability is and will be a crucial issue for the present and future generations as discussed by the authors, from the economic, political, social, social and environmental points of view, and this is a very impressive objective embracing all fields of culture, economy, technology and much more.
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Build-to-order supply chain management: a literature review and framework for development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the literature on build-to-order supply chain management (BOSC), focusing on four major areas of decision-making: organizational competitiveness, the development and implementation of BOSC, the operations of BOC, and information technology in BOC.
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Intelligent Products: A survey
TL;DR: The technical foundations in the areas of automatic identification and embedded processing, distributed information storage and processing, and agent-based systems are discussed, as well as the achievable practical goals in the contexts of manufacturing, supply chains, asset management, and product life cycle management.
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Engineer-to-order supply chain management: A literature review and research agenda
TL;DR: A comprehensive literature review of published material relating to engineer-to-order supply chains is presented in this paper, which contributes to the development of a more robust definition of ETO supply chain, helps to identify strategies that are suitable and investigates the relationship of the ETO sector with lean and agile approaches.
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Exploring the impact of RFID technology and the EPC network on mobile B2B eCommerce: A case study in the retail industry
TL;DR: Results indicate that through a business process approach, this approach seems appropriate to capture the potential of the RFID-EPC network and these technologies can cancel, automate, or automatically trigger some business processes.
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