Levers for Management of Resource Efficiency in the Tool and Die Making Industry

Schuh, Günther; Kuhlmann, Kristian; Komorek, Nicolas; Kuhn, Thomas S.

doi:10.1007/978-981-4451-48-2_53

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“…It also means the integration of digital technologies into everyday life and business. According to Schuh et al (2013Schuh et al ( , p. 1976, "digitalization offers a capable solution [for] manag [ing] interfaces between entities and reduc[ing] the complexity of the coordination of value-creation networks." Especially in communications, information, media, and entertainment (CIME) industries exploit digital technologies directly (Gimpel & Westerman, 2012).…”

Section: Literature Review: Digitalization Brand Development and Sust...mentioning

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Digitalization as Part of Tourism Brand Development

Rusko

Merenheimo

2015

International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy

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Gradually, digitalization and the Web have become an important part of tourism products. This development has been unnoticeable, but undeniable. Active customers are, via the Web, co-creating and participating in the product development of tourism destinations, especially in the form of brand development. In fact, it is possible to attribute the current development of new tourism destinations to peer production or “crowdsourcing.” This study focuses on the role Web-based platforms play in destination brand development, using the examples of two seemingly nearly similar Christmas tourism destinations as case studies: Santa Claus, Indiana, and Santa Claus Village, Rovaniemi. The study highlights the contribution this kind of customer-oriented digitalization makes to creating a competitive advantage, even a sustainable one, for tourism products with theoretical connections to a resource-based view (RBV). In digitalization, the role of the consumer as a “prosumer,” and potentially as a part of an organization's resources in a sense of RBV, is a fresh and challenging perspective that this study will introduce.

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Section: Literature Review: Digitalization Brand Development and Sust...mentioning

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Digitalization as Part of Tourism Brand Development

Rusko

Merenheimo

2015

International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy

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“…Shorter product life cycles increase the pressure on tool production processes since tools need to be produced in shorter times. [5,7,8] Overcoming the Challenges of Production. In order to overcome these challenges, European tool making companies need to further integrate themselves into the preceding and following processes of their customers.…”

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Modular Service-Oriented Cyber-Physical Systems for the European Tool Making Industry

Schuh

Rudolf

Pitsch

et al. 2015

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Manufacturing companies in high-wage countries are facing rising challenges in a global market. Increasing customer demands for a higher degree of individualization result in smaller lot sizes and higher variety of products. In addition, competitors from low-wage countries in Asia and Eastern Europe have significantly improved their technical capabilities, resulting in a more competitive environment. The tool making industry provides its customers with the means to achieve excellence in production due to its unique position in the value chain between product development and the serial production of parts. A tool making company’s ability to improve the efficiency of serial production and develop innovative product design is strongly dependent on its capability of integrating itself into the preceding and following customer processes. Over the last years, customer demands for global sourcing of tools have changed from low prices to the demands of extended tool operating life and high operational availability. European tool making companies have learned to take this development as a chance to differentiate themselves from global competitors and subsequently increase their range of services up- and downstream the value chain. As a result, new industrial product-service-systems (IPS²) for the European tool making industry need to be developed that address the demand of a higher degree of integration into the preceding and following customer processes. Within the German Government founded research project “Smart Tools”, an industrial product-service-system (IPS²) for the tool making industry has been developed based on a modular service-oriented cyber-physical system. Core element of the cyber-physical system is the smart tool – an injection molding tool equipped with state-of-the-art sensor technology to capture data on the condition of the tool during its operational use. Its intelligence derives from the condition based interpretation and data management of the collected process data which is also the basis for the design of customer specific services. Besides the successful integration of force and position sensors into the tool, experimental research has delivered important results on the application of solid borne sound sensors for online early detection of tool wear. An innovative concept for the distribution and interpretation of the process data incorporates the specific requirements of the customers. To cope with the demands of individual and small series production in the tool making industry, a modular sensor kit has been developed together with a diagnostic unit for data interpretation and storage of data in an electronic tool book. The developed modular service-oriented cyber-physical system delivers the means to extended tool operating life and improves the overall efficiency of serial production. Based on the results new business models can be developed for tool making companies to differentiate themselves from global competitors and overcome the challenges of production in high-wage countries.

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