Coprod is a project that addresses collaborative production control in networked business settings. Businesses in networked and tightly interlinked surroundings need to co-operate and collaborate in such a detailed level that novel principles for managing the inter-company production control are needed.

Discuss and compare, when possible, e.g. following topics:

• for background: current situation / state-of-the-art in production control in foundries
• general background: traditional intra-company production control vs. controlling with external parties (e.g. more open visibility of production status etc.)
• traditional purchasing: buyer-seller relations vs. co-operative and joint activities
• fixed production plans vs. dynamic and constantly negotiable plans
• focus on the result of the final product from the whole network vs. focus on the individual intermediate component

Introduction to Overall Concepts and Problem Statement

[These are from the title of the research and the research plan]

• Traditional production control activity
• Foundry environment and its contemporary business challenges
• Business networks as a new way of organising development and production
• Industrial collaboration: activities and technologies
• Industrial and business communities: what are these? (e.g. Communities of practice…)
• Networking as interlinked industial actors, individual profesionals, and technological solutions

For background literature: Refer to the list of readings in the References page.

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Responsibility: Janne

First, a brief introduction on Domain A: Definition of academic and industrial relevance. What is the academic domain of interest in Domain A? What is the industrial interest, problem, and challenge in Domain A that needs to be solved?

Production control system in make-to-order iron foundry. This part describes the emphasis on specific subset of concepts and phenomena under focus in Domain A.

State-of-the-art review: What has been published about the concepts in previous studies by other researchers? What are the key conceptual models that have been presented in literature on the theme? What are the key questions that have been presented? What are the questions that key researchers have pointed out that require further elaboration? How does our research relate to these questions i.e. how do we contribute to the selected research domain?

For background literature: Refer to the list of readings in the References page.

Description of the case environment. What is the industrial problem that addresses the theme of the project (linking the academic theme and the industrial relevance)? How does the industrial problem align with the theme of the project? Describe the representatives/stakeholders of the network. What kind of benefits do the industrial representatives expect from the solving of the problem? What will be the outcomes of the research and development work? What are the changes to the current processes and activities?

This part concludes the novel approaches and concepts that are derived from Domain A. The concepts are presented so that they can be integrated to the overall conceptual model in the intergrative part of the document (at the end).

Responsibility: Anneli, Meri

Responsibility: Taneli, Venlakaisa

Responsibility: Kalle

Valukomponentin toimitusketju ja sen hallinta

[Tämän osion työstämisessä voidaan käyttää verkosta käsin käytettävää yhteiskäyttöönkin sopivaa “mind manager” -palvelua Mind42. Se löytyy osoitteesta http://mind42.com. Marko (Mind42-käyttäjätunnus “mniemi”) on avannut “Coprod Conceptual Model” -käsitekartan työstämisen ja voi lähettää kutsut muille ko. palveluun tunnuksensa tehneille yhteistä työstämistä ajatellen.]

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This section will be created and improved with joint workshopping and cross-analysis of the individual case studies. The conceptual model also employs issues from the underlying theories and related research.

References are listed here and in separate document. Link to separate references document is here.