Modelling of virtual production networks

• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Poznań School of Logistics 2011-03-01
• Series: LogForum
• Subjects: virtual organization; production network; production flow planning
• Online Access: http://www.logforum.net/vol7/issue1/no3/7_1_3_11.pdf

Nowadays many companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), specialize in a limited field of production. It requires forming virtual production networks of cooperating enterprises to manufacture better, faster and cheaper. Apart from that, some production orders cannot be realized, because there is not a company of sufficient production potential. In this case the virtual production networks of cooperating companies can realize these production orders. These networks have larger production capacity and many different resources. Therefore it can realize many more production orders together than each of them separately. Such organization allows for executing high quality product. The maintenance costs of production capacity and used resources are not so high. 
 In this paper a methodology of rapid prototyping of virtual production networks is proposed. It allows to execute production orders on time considered existing logistic constraints.