Developing Strategic Leadership and Innovation Capability for Manufacturing SMEs Transitioning to Digital Manufacturing Technology

2020 ◽  
pp. 164-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roderick Walden ◽  
Stefan Lie ◽  
Berto Pandolfo ◽  
Anton Nemme
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Strategic Leadership ◽  
Digital Manufacturing ◽  
Innovation Capability ◽  
Advanced Manufacturing Technologies ◽  
Industry Collaboration ◽  
Collective Entrepreneurship ◽  
Manufacturing Technologies ◽  
University Industry

Strategic leadership and the development of innovation capability is of critical importance for product design and manufacturing as emerging digital technologies increasingly challenge conventional practice. This chapter presents research intended to provide manufacturing SMEs and product designers with an understanding of the complexities associated with the introduction of advanced manufacturing technologies as part of the transition to Industry 4.0. An included case study describes a university-industry collaboration design project articulating product designs role in developing strategic leadership and innovation capability for SMEs in an era of digitalisation. The chapter provides tangible ways forward for manufacturing SMEs transitioning to additive manufacturing (AM) technology, operationalising a combination of theoretical positions proposed in academic discourse. These include the need to adopt empowering leadership styles, the value of collective entrepreneurship, and the nature of creative process engagement for the generation of ideas and alternatives for AM transition.

BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN UNIVERSITY AND INDUSTRY: THREE MECHANISMS FOR INNOVATION EFFICIENCY

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 1440005 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHANNA WALLIN ◽  
OLA ISAKSSON ◽  
ANDREAS LARSSON ◽  
BENGT-OLOF ELFSTRÖM
Keyword(s):  
Close Collaboration ◽  
Contextual Understanding ◽  
Industry Collaboration ◽  
A Company ◽  
University Industry ◽  
Insight Into

A key challenge for competence networking is the difficulty of contextual understanding between people from different organizations. Despite close collaboration, full insight into a company is difficult, although desirable, for university partners to achieve and vice versa. The case study described in this paper is of a company with long experience of university–industry collaboration. The paper reports on a designerly approach to overcome barriers of university–industry collaboration. The approach is combined with strategic, tactic and operational dimensions. It builds on three corresponding mechanisms: a tool to facilitate strategic understanding, workshops to facilitate tactical co-creation, and prototyping to facilitate operational ideation.

scholarly journals Rapid Product Development in University-Industry Collaboration: Case Study of a Smart Design

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-59
Author(s):  
Jari Jussila ◽  
Jukka Raitanen ◽  
Atte Partanen ◽  
Vesa Tuomela ◽  
Ville Siipola ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Rapid Product Development ◽  
Industry Collaboration ◽  
University Industry

scholarly journals A Case Study of University–Industry Collaboration for Sustainable Furniture Design

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 10915
Author(s):  
Jo Kuys ◽  
Abdullah Al Mahmud ◽  
Blair Kuys
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
End Users ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Joint Project ◽  
Sustainable Products ◽  
Industry Collaboration ◽  
Government Organisation ◽  
University Industry

This paper describes the importance of including a Human-Centred Design (HCD) approach for successful university–industry collaboration. We detail user surveys and user evaluation techniques to engage end-users for the rejuvenation of manufacturing industries through sustainable product development. There are numerous studies describing the importance of university–industry collaboration; however, very few portray the detailed working relationships necessary to fulfil both the university and the industry agenda. This paper explores a joint project between a prominent Melbourne-based university and a government organisation from Malaysia. The intention was to innovate a range of furniture for Malaysian dormitories to stimulate the local manufacturing sector and provide high-value product applications for Malaysia’s abundant timber sector. By detailing a HCD approach, we reveal how to better direct the design outcomes to accurately reflect the research intent. This is detailed through a case study showing how the research data was translated into final product concepts influenced by end-users and collaboration with the industry stakeholders. The resulting products are a range of sustainable, modular dormitory furniture with a direct route to market. Finally, we provide the lessons learned and suggestions for developing sustainable products through university–industry collaboration.

scholarly journals Avaliação de Desempenho do Processo de Manufatura do Café

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Morais ◽  
R. Massa ◽  
E. Tavares ◽  
E. Andrade
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Production Cycle ◽  
Advanced Manufacturing ◽  
Industrial Case Study ◽  
Advanced Manufacturing Technologies ◽  
Increase Productivity ◽  
Reducing Costs ◽  
Manufacturing Technologies ◽  
The Cost

Globalization and advanced manufacturing technologies have forced manufacturing firms to increase productivity while reducing costs. At the same time, customers are increasingly demanding better products considering tangi- ble (e.g., smell, color, taste) and intangible (e.g., mark, fair treading, and envi- ronmental responsability) attributes. Currently, Brazil consolidates a position as the largest producer and exporter of coffee, accounting for 30% of the inter- national coffee market. This paper presents a stochastic model for performance evaluation and planning of coffee manufacturing process aiming at reducing the cost and time of the production cycle. An industrial case study shows the practical usability of the proposed models and techniques.

University–industry collaboration for BIM education: Lessons learned from a case study

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 401-409
Author(s):  
Ke Chen ◽  
Weisheng Lu ◽  
Jing Wang
Keyword(s):  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Industry Collaboration ◽  
Industry Needs ◽  
University Industry

Over the past decade, the global construction industry has shown a clear and urgent need for its professionals to command building information modeling (BIM) knowledge. Many educational institutions have thus incorporated BIM into their construction engineering and management-related programs. However, BIM education faces several challenges, such as the difficulties in transforming existing programs, a lack of instructors with sufficient practical knowledge and misalignment of educational outcomes and industry needs. Many educators thus advocate university–industry collaboration, but this effort is hampered by unanswered questions, including when, what and how both parties can contribute to the collaboration to achieve a win–win situation. This article attempts to answer these key questions in BIM education by relating them to university–industry collaboration in pedagogical design, course delivery and educational outcomes. It does so by conducting a case study whereby the researchers adopted a non-participant observation approach to observe the experience of participants in teaching and learning a BIM course. Feedback from the participants showed that such collaboration could help to narrow the gap between educational outcomes and industry needs. Based on that outcome, another contribution of this research is an analytical framework developed and substantiated to provide a more structured way to guide ‘town and gown’ collaboration for BIM education.

HVAC CAD Layout Tools: A Case Study of University/Industry Collaboration

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Cagan ◽  
Richard Clark ◽  
Pratip Dastidar ◽  
Simon Szykman ◽  
Paul Weisser
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Hvac Systems ◽  
Design Tools ◽  
Industry Collaboration ◽  
Effective Partnership ◽  
Number Of Bends ◽  
The University ◽  
University Industry ◽  
Traditional Manner

Abstract An effective partnership between industry and the university resulted in the system of design tools for the layout of HVAC systems presented in this paper and illustrated with the design of a heat pump. The system provides tools to assist in the placement of components and routing of tubes between the components. Traditional tubes, tubes that have minimized length and number of bends, and those that are impossible to route in the traditional manner, are generated. The paper provides insight on both the collaborative research interaction and the resulting set of tools.

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