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| SCHUH, G.; SAUER, A.; DÖRING, S.: A Complexity Based Approach to Collaborations in the Tool and Die Industry. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Interoperability for Enterprise Software and Applications Conference (I-ESA 2006). 22-24 März 2006, Bordeaux, Frankreich. |
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Nowadays the tool and die industry has to meet various new challenges. An increasing number of production sites distributed world-wide requires a high flexibility in the procurement and maintenance of tools and dies. This flexibility is strongly connected to an increasing complexity and increasing costs. However, enterprises are more and more exposed to competitive pressure by new entrants from Eastern European Countries and the Far East branching out into the tool and die market with simple commodity moulds. To keep their business profitable, tool and die manufacturers need to strategically re-align their organisational management. A promising approach is the collaboration in at least regional tool and die making networks. Cost effects in terms of lower tooling costs and a decrease in maintenance efforts can be achieved as well as technological
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progress by joining the individual competencies of the collaborating tool and die makers. However, collaborations in production industry yield to new challenges for the participating enterprises. The lack of problem-oriented understanding of the required systems set-up and underlying control mechanisms currently leads to a high failure rate of collaborations. Academic research in management science has expanded on models accounting for the individual company as an entity. Complementary approaches to address the characteristics of enterprise-networks are therefore required. The application of principles of complex systems from natural sciences to collaborative enterprise networks considered as socio-technical systems might yield these complementary approaches.
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