Platform and direct exchange-based mechanisms for resource sharing in distributed manufacturing: a comparison

The operation of production facilities is shifting from centralized organizations towards decentralized networks. paper investigates and compares alternative mechanisms for resource sharing in distributed manufacturing. Specifically, with the same underlying assumptions, a platform direct exchange-based model are presented examined. models have common that assignment decisions made ultimately by autonomous facilities, also based on trust they maintain each other. Agent-based simulation used to compare two respect utilization rate, service level communication load. findings can be applied design crowdsourced manufacturing platforms.