Schaefer, D 
ORCID: 0000-0002-5695-9312 and Forbes, Hannah
(2019)
Industry 4.0 - Social Product Development Finding Its Way.
Steel Times International, 43 (2).
pp. 40-44.
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Abstract
Social Product Development (SPD), is a new approach to design that represents a “coalescing group of tools and technologies” described as the “tenants of Social Product Development” [1]. These tenants of SPD include Mass Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Cloud-Based Design and Manufacture (CBDM) and Open Innovation. The purpose of SPD is to “improve traditional distributed and collaborative design processes” by enhancing “communication and collaboration […] through social computing techniques” [2]. The tenants of SPD involve external individuals (e.g. crowdsourcing) or allow the involvement of external individuals (e.g. cloud-based design and manufacture) as an integral member of the design process [3]. In this article, the need for SPD in industry is first presented before each tenant and its relationship with the term SPD is described. Following this, successful examples of SPD in industry are described and a case is made for a SPD framework to assist further industry adoption of SPD.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Apr 2019 09:20 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 00:55 |
| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3035664 |
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