A Platform Business Model for Collaborative Additive Manufacturing

A Collaborative Information Sharing Platform for Virtual Manufacturing Analysis Preparation

Virtual manufacturing (VM) has been studied in various activities of manufacturing. The objectives of the studies depend on the nature of investigation: ranging from optimization of product and process design, workplace design, simulation of plant operation and layouts, to improvement of manual operations in ergonomic studies. VM helps to shorten the product development process by its ability o...

Additive manufacturing technology: Identifying Value Potential in Additive Manufacturing Stakeholder Groups and Business Networks

The development of additive manufacturing (AM) technology is expected to transform product design and manufacturing. It is predicted that the effects of AM on business will be diverse and extensive. It will be critical for business owners to observe how AM impacts on conventional supply chains and business networks, plus the effects on customers’ value propositions and on value creation. Value ...

A Workflow Execution Platform for Collaborative Artifact-Centric Business Processes

To execute an artifact-centric process model, current workflow execution approaches require it to be converted to some existing executable language (e.g., BPEL) in order to run on a workflow system. We argue that the transformation can incur losses of information and degrade traceability. In this paper, we proposed and developed a workflow execution platform that directly executes a collaborati...

Facebook Platform as the Social Business and Marketing Model for Cosmetic Surgery: An Online Study

Business activity patterns: A new model for collaborative business applications

P. Moody D. Gruen M. J. Muller J. Tang T. P. Moran In this paper, we describe the vision behind the Unified Activity Management project at IBM Research. In particular, we describe and discuss activities, activity-centered computing, and activity patterns and illustrate the potential impact of this approach and its value to individuals, teams, and the enterprise. We discuss business activities a...