Design and control of collaborative manufacturing and logistic systems

世界正变得越来越科技化和相互联系。这使个人和组织能够交换信息，共同工作和决策，并共享资源和知识。这场技术革命使人们和组织能够在不同领域建立新形式的协作网络。协同制造和物流系统就是这样的网络。它们是由分散的设施、人员或服务中心组成的复杂适应系统，在协作组织和/或个人的多中心控制下运行。这些系统可以采取多种形式，例如协作型企业(即一起交换运营信息和决策的企业)、产业生态系统(即交换副产品或共享资源的企业)、虚拟企业(即按需组装的企业或与信息技术集成的企业)、云制造(即基于按需使用的分布式制造服务的集成的新制造模式)、资源共享(例如优步)和物理互联网(即受互联网启发的货运模式)。这些分布式和协作系统是该计划的核心，该计划的长期愿景是创造创新的方式，以利用持续的技术进步，实现人员、组织和技术之间的新形式的协作和交互机制。这一长期愿景并不局限于任何领域或方法。它将不同的范式、概念、方法和技术结合在一起，为协同制造和物流系统创建新的交互模型、工具和决策支持系统。该计划的未来五年将专注于开发研究、设计和运营此类系统的新方法，重点放在两个应用领域：工业生态和循环经济；以及供应链合作。为了实现这些总体目标，该计划提出了五个硕士项目和两个博士项目。这项计划的贡献是巨大的，因为它满足了服务和制造业日益增长的需求，即通过利用该计划将开发的先进决策支持技术，优化公司、组织和人员如何交换信息、协作、回收副产品或联合计划其运营，使其具有竞争力和环境友好性。

The world is becoming increasingly technological and connected. This enables individuals and organisations to exchange information, work and make decisions together, and share resources and knowledge. This technological revolution enables new forms of collaborative networks of people and organisations in various domains. Collaborative manufacturing and logistic systems are such networks. They are Complex Adaptive Systems made of distributed facilities, people, or service centres operating under the polycentric control of collaborating organisations and/or individuals. These systems can take many forms, such as collaborative enterprises (i.e., enterprises exchanging operational information and making decisions together), industrial ecosystems (i.e., enterprises exchanging by-products or sharing resources), virtual enterprises (i.e., enterprises assembled on-demand or enterprises integrated with information technology), cloud manufacturing (i.e., new manufacturing paradigms based on the integration of distributed manufacturing services used on­demand), resource sharing (e.g., UBER), and the Physical Internet (i.e., freight transport model inspired by Internet). These distributed and collaborative systems are central to this program, whose long-term vision is to create innovative ways to take advantage of the continuous technological progress that enables new forms of collaboration and interaction mechanisms between people, organizations, and technology. This long-term vision is not limited to any domain or methodological approach. It brings together different paradigms, concepts, methodologies and technologies to create new interaction models, tools and decision support systems for Collaborative manufacturing and logistic systems. The next five years of this program will focus on the development of new methods with which to study, design and operate such systems with an emphasis on two application domains: industrial ecology and circular economy; and supply chain collaboration. In order to achieve these general objectives, this program proposes five MSc projects and two PhD projects. The contribution of this program is significant because it addresses a growing need of service and manufacturing industries, which is to optimize how companies, organizations, and people exchange information, collaborate, recycle by-products or jointly plan their operations to be competitive and environmentally sound, by exploiting the advanced decision support technologies this program will develop.