Chapter 7: Intelligent Products

Title: Intelligent products - towards autonomous logistics processes - a work in progress paper

Author(s): Ernesto Morales-Kluge, Farideh Ganji, Bernd Scholz-Reiter

Address: BIBA – Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH, Hochschulring 20, 28359 Bremen, Germany | BIBA – Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH, Hochschulring 20, 28359 Bremen, Germany | BIBA – Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH, Hochschulring 20, 28359 Bremen, Germany

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2010 pp. 348 - 357

Abstract/Summary: Intelligent products moved into the research focus of several research domains. These domains are product lifecycle management, internet of things and logistics, to name a few. They all have quite a common understanding of the intelligent product and their envisioned abilities. A key finding of the autonomous logistics research is the demand for positive emergence that should arise out of the global system when applying decentralized intelligent products. This paper concentrates on the first integration attempts of intelligent products in the context of autonomous logistics processes and presents a demonstration platform which assembles automotive tail-lights autonomously.

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