Strategic Action Line LI1: Personalised Production

The objective of this chapter is to describe the action line related to Personalised production (LI1). In particular, this chapter proposes research and innovation priorities aimed at promoting industrial systems and models for the efficient manufacture of customized products that can be reconfigured with fast turnarounds to meet specific requests fielded from individual customers or small groups, and that deliver a high level of integration with the customers in order to ensure they become the main actors of the resulting solution. These design and production systems must be conceived to have the capacity to be reconfigured for the manufacture of products that can be required in certain times of emergency (such as health emergencies) or in response to events that can cause a sudden shift in system priorities and require the industrial system to transfer its focus to different categories of products to those usually made. In this action line, it is important to research new supply chain management models and local manufacturing models as well as smart materials.