Paper ID
3222
Paper Type
full
Description
In recent years, IT systems have facilitated the creation of open systems and thereby served as an enabler for resource sharing across various industries. Often electronic marketplaces have been established as opening processes. In the manufacturing sector, marketplaces focus primarily on the direct purchase of standardized products as highly specialized machine tools impede capacity trading. However, the emergence of additive manufacturing changes this logic, giving firms the opportunity to trade 3D-printing capacities. In this paper, we pursue a design-oriented research approach to develop and evaluate a prototypical platform for market-based coordination of 3D-printing capacities. The platform allows firms to enhance profits by marketing surplus capacity or hedge risks by mitigating capacity mismatches. Such sharing of production capacities instantiates a form of an open production system. Our artifact leverages methods from information systems, operations research, and economics to cope with the complexity of the task.
Recommended Citation
Stein, Nikolai; Walter, Benedikt; and Flath, Christoph, "Towards Open Production: Designing a marketplace for 3D-printing capacities" (2019). ICIS 2019 Proceedings. 15.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2019/is_heart_of_innovation_ecosystems/innovation_ecosystems/15
Towards Open Production: Designing a marketplace for 3D-printing capacities
In recent years, IT systems have facilitated the creation of open systems and thereby served as an enabler for resource sharing across various industries. Often electronic marketplaces have been established as opening processes. In the manufacturing sector, marketplaces focus primarily on the direct purchase of standardized products as highly specialized machine tools impede capacity trading. However, the emergence of additive manufacturing changes this logic, giving firms the opportunity to trade 3D-printing capacities. In this paper, we pursue a design-oriented research approach to develop and evaluate a prototypical platform for market-based coordination of 3D-printing capacities. The platform allows firms to enhance profits by marketing surplus capacity or hedge risks by mitigating capacity mismatches. Such sharing of production capacities instantiates a form of an open production system. Our artifact leverages methods from information systems, operations research, and economics to cope with the complexity of the task.