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This paper establishes a reference set of those low cost digital solutions needed by small and medium sized manufacturers – SMEs – and proposes a method for determining development priorities using input from reference groups of SMEs. The paper describes the approach taken to identifying and classifying common digital solutions used in manufacturing and the results from a series of workshops in which company representatives prioritise different solution types to help guide developments.
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Schönfuß, B., McFarlane, D., Athanassopoulou, N., Salter, L., de Silva, L., Ratchev, S. (2020). Prioritising Low Cost Digital Solutions Required by Manufacturing SMEs: A Shoestring Approach. In: Borangiu, T., Trentesaux, D., Leitão, P., Giret Boggino, A., Botti, V. (eds) Service Oriented, Holonic and Multi-agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future. SOHOMA 2019. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 853. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27477-1_22
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