2015, Articolo in rivista, ENG
Copani G.; Urgo M.
In the current competitive scenario, industrial companies experience frequent unexpected changes in production demand. To cope with this, they often opt for investments in manufacturing technologies which embed extra-flexibility that is rarely utilized and, consequently, affects financial and operational performance. Innovative flexibility-oriented business models based on innovative service value propositions could increase manufacturers competitiveness in turbulent environment and could represent a competitive factor for systems suppliers. Their industrial implementation requires the optimization of manufacturing flexibility over the lifecycle of a system and the quantification of economic performance for customers and suppliers in order to mage risks and to shape sustainable contractual agreements. In this paper, stochastic configuration methods to design focused-flexibility production systems are presented as a promising methodological enabler of new flexibility-oriented business models. An industrial case demonstrating the potential value of these methods is discussed. Future research developments are finally outlined.
2012, Articolo in rivista, ENG
Copani G.; Urgo M.
In the current competitive scenario, industrial companies experience frequent unexpected changes in production demand. To cope with them, they often opt for investments in manufacturing technologies which embed extra-flexibility that is rarely utilized and that, consequently, penalizes financial and operational performance. In this paper, new business models for focused-flexibility manufacturing systems are proposed to improve manufacturing performances in turbulent environments and to increase machine builders competitiveness though the offering of high value-added services. These innovative business models should be enabled by the adoption of new integrated methods for the joint production system-business model configuration. Starting from the available state of the art on production systems configuration, the paper illustrates research activities in progress to finalize the development of such methodological enablers for new flexibility-oriented business models. © 2012 Published.
2009, Mostra
Copani G.
Presentazione presso convegno organizzato nell'ambito della fiera EMO 2009 a conclusione del progetto "Next" e gestione della promozione dei risultati di progetto presso lo stand allestito in fiera
2009, Rapporto di ricerca (Research report)
Copani G., Marvulli S., Biege S., Araujo D., Arrieta J.A., De la Puente A., Roche C.
2007, Rapporto di ricerca (Research report)
Copani G., Marvulli S., Molinari Tosatti L., Bieige S.