Redistributed Manufacturing Ecosystem for Healthcare: An in-Depth Case Study of On-Body Manufacturing Using a Microfactory
Redistributed Manufacturing Ecosystem for Healthcare: An in-Depth Case Study of On-Body Manufacturing Using a Microfactory
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DOI：
10.1109/tem.2023.3337000
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发表时间：
2024
影响因子：
5.8
通讯作者：
Ellen H. Hughes;Glenn Parry;Phil Davies;Veronica Martinez
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作者：
Ellen H. Hughes;Glenn Parry;Phil Davies;Veronica Martinez
从集中式制造到再分布制造（RDM）的转变使小批量生产更接近使用地点。RDM的潜在好处在文献中得到了强调，但在这个新兴领域，对其采用如何改变生态系统内关系的理解是有限的。在这篇文章中，我们提供了一个新的案例研究，一个新兴的便携式，数字化的微型工厂技术，从医疗保健，本地化的治疗药物的生产对病人的身体。以制造业生态系统的角度来看，本文贡献的经验证据表明，如何引入微型工厂的原因在制造业的背景下，在微观层面上的变化和组织间和机构间的关系在中观层面上的变化。我们的研究表明，无生命的代理人，如数字微型工厂，可以成为生态系统中的演员。我们将参与服务接触的数字化微型工厂定位为我们生态系统微观层面的资源整合参与者。微工厂的结构、组件和架构定位于一个新的“亚微观层面”。本文对RDM理论做出了贡献，表明技术进步可以将制造业的再分配推向个人层面，微型工厂的组件可以同时生产和使用。
The shift from centralized to redistributed manufacturing (RDM) enables lower volume production closer to the site of use. The potential benefits of RDM are highlighted in the literature, but in this emerging field, understanding of how its adoption changes relationships within an ecosystem is limited. In this article, we provide a novel case study of an emerging portable, digitized microfactory technology from healthcare that localizes the manufacture of therapeutics on the body of the patient. Taking a manufacturing ecosystems perspective, this article contributes empirical evidence showing how the introduction of the microfactory causes a change in the context of manufacture at the microlevel and a change in interorganizational and institutional relationships at the mesolevel. Our research shows how inanimate agents, such as digital microfactories, can be actors within an ecosystem. We position the digitized microfactory engaged in the service encounter as a resource integrating actor at the microlevel of our ecosystem. The microfactory's structure, components, and architecture, are positioned at a new “sub-microlevel.” This article contributes to the RDM theory, showing that technical advances can push redistribution of manufacturing to the individual level, where components of the microfactory enable simultaneous production and use.