MOTI: A University-Industry Virtual Alliance for Radical Innovation in Flat Glass Manufacturing

通过与平板玻璃制造价值链上的公司密切合作，该研究团队将评估不断变化的终端用户需求，设计工具来衡量这种连续-离散二分法对制造性能的影响，并开发先进的工具来衡量组织文化和结构。目标是针对制造业务的激进创新的研发努力，这些创新对长期（2010年）竞争力有最大的潜在影响，并提出实施激进变革所需的组织文化和结构变革。平板玻璃制造价值链被选为合作伙伴，因为这种制造将大规模、连续的玻璃制造炉与多个炉后离散部件制造和子组装步骤紧密结合在一起，为最终用户提供不同的平板玻璃产品要求（例如汽车、建筑产品和平板显示器）。该团队将与平板玻璃行业的公司合作伙伴合作进行市场评估、模型构建和验证，并将与技术和管理代表合作，以确保研究成果的可转移性。制造系统的建模将涉及从原材料到平板玻璃生产到最终客户规格的所有过程和分销步骤，并将确定实现制造业激进创新所需的关键研究领域。组织文化和结构的建模将识别并推荐克服突破性创新的开发、设计和实施障碍的技术。对平板玻璃制造价值链的综合研究将确定制造和供应基础设施的激进创新的新方法。其结果将促进实时监测和控制以及基于活动的成本核算在公司和工厂层面的实施。这些知识可以通过参与的公司合作伙伴、行业组织和政府机构，如能源部、工业技术办公室（OIT），在整个玻璃行业和其他成熟的材料密集型行业中转移。通过会议、期刊论文、培训工具和案例研究传播研究成果将对创新的理论和实践产生重大影响。结果将加强学生对工业和学术生涯的准备，并将促进进一步的大学与工业伙伴关系。

In close collaboration with companies spanning the flat glass manufacturing value chain, this research team will assess changing end user requirements, design tools to measure the impact of this continuous-discrete dichotomy on manufacturing performance, and develop advanced tools that measure organizational culture and structure. The objectives are target R&D efforts on radical innovations in manufacturing operations with the greatest potential impact on long range (2010) competitiveness, and to propose changes in organizational culture and structure needed to implement radical change. The flat glass manufacturing value chain were selected as partners because this manufacturing closely couples large-scale, continuous glass making furnaces to multiple post-furnace discrete-part fabrication and sub-assembly steps which supply end users with diverse flat glass product requirements (e.g. automotive, building products and flat panel display). The team will collaborate in market assessment, model building and validation with company partners from the flat glass industry, and will work with technical and management representatives to ensure that the research learnings are transferable. Modeling of the manufacturing system will address all process and distribution steps from raw materials through production of flat glass to final customer specifications, and will identify key research areas required to achieve radical innovation in manufacturing. Modeling of organizational culture and structure will identify and recommend techniques for overcoming barriers to the development, design, and implementation of radical innovation. An integrated study of the value chain for flat glass manufacturing will identify new approaches to radical innovation in manufacturing and supply infrastructure. The results will stimulate implementation of real time monitoring and control and activity based costing, at the company as well as at the plant level. The knowledge can be transferred throughout the glass indus try and to other mature, material intensive industries through participating company partners, industry organizations and government agencies such as the Department of Energy, Office of Industrial Technology (OIT). Dissemination of research results through conferences, journal papers, training tools, and case studies will significantly impact both theory and practice of innovation. The results will enhance student preparation for industrial and academic careers, and will stimulate further University-Industry partnerships.