A Dynamic Demand-driven Smart Manufacturing for Mass Individualization Production

Industry 4.0 intends to realize mass individualization production driven by customers’ demands, thus generating several advanced manufacturing modes. However, the existing modes have disadvantages such as low customer participation, low response for modifications in real-time, and low utilization of distributed idle productivity resources. The above deficiencies would not cater to the idea of Industry 4.0 well, making the cost of individualization products too high or the degree of individualization too low. In this paper, a customer highly involved dynamic demand-driven smart manufacturing mode and a mathematical model are presented for mass individualization production. Under this mode, customers can be prosumers, participating in the whole production process and proposing modifications. Meanwhile, multiple distributed idle productivity resources are employed with dynamic demand-driven manufacturing. In consequence of the mathematical model and algorithms, the multiple task allocation among multiple factories problem is solved, maximizing the total profit of available factories with high efficiency and low resource waste. Experiments and comparisons are made about the feasibility and efficiency of the algorithms.