Intelligent Products: A survey

  • Authors:

  • Gerben G. Meyer;Kary Främling;Jan Holmström

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Business & ICT, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 5500, FIN-02015 TKK HUT, Finland;Department of Industrial Management and Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 5500, FIN-02015 TKK HUT, Finland

  • Venue:
  • Computers in Industry
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the field of Intelligent Products. As Intelligent Products have many facets, this paper is mainly focused on the concept behind Intelligent Products, the technical foundations, and the achievable practical goals of Intelligent Products. A novel classification of Intelligent Products is introduced, which distinguishes between three orthogonal dimensions. Furthermore, the technical foundations in the areas of automatic identification and embedded processing, distributed information storage and processing, and agent-based systems are discussed, as well as the achievable practical goals in the contexts of manufacturing, supply chains, asset management, and product life cycle management.