The COVID-19 outbreak has incapacitated physical supply chains of various industrial sectors. Thi... more The COVID-19 outbreak has incapacitated physical supply chains of various industrial sectors. This has been a call for attention to rethinking innovative methods to improve supply chain resilience. Emerging manufacturing technologies like additive/hybrid manufacturing are enabling Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to transform into cybermanufacturing kiosks to deliver manufacturing as a service (Maas) by digitalizing much of the manufacturing work-flow (design, communication and manufacturing). This transformation is causing a paradigm shift where major producers and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) can outsource manufacturing of components to distributed SMEs located near the point of need. The increasing reliance on a digital thread would reduce the burden of resiliency required from the physical supply chains. Although digital threads are reducing the burden on the physical supply chains, they introduce a new class of cyber-resilience requirement, chiefly in assuring the integrity of the designs and other intellectual properties shared across the digital thread. A novel design sharing scheme for the digital thread based on video streaming is introduced for addressing the issue of IP theft and tampering. The potential of design sharing scheme for the improvement of the cyber-resilience of digital supply chains is discussed.
The COVID-19 outbreak has incapacitated physical supply chains of various industrial sectors. Thi... more The COVID-19 outbreak has incapacitated physical supply chains of various industrial sectors. This has been a call for attention to rethinking innovative methods to improve supply chain resilience. Emerging manufacturing technologies like additive/hybrid manufacturing are enabling Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to transform into cybermanufacturing kiosks to deliver manufacturing as a service (Maas) by digitalizing much of the manufacturing work-flow (design, communication and manufacturing). This transformation is causing a paradigm shift where major producers and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) can outsource manufacturing of components to distributed SMEs located near the point of need. The increasing reliance on a digital thread would reduce the burden of resiliency required from the physical supply chains. Although digital threads are reducing the burden on the physical supply chains, they introduce a new class of cyber-resilience requirement, chiefly in assuring the integrity of the designs and other intellectual properties shared across the digital thread. A novel design sharing scheme for the digital thread based on video streaming is introduced for addressing the issue of IP theft and tampering. The potential of design sharing scheme for the improvement of the cyber-resilience of digital supply chains is discussed.
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