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SUMMARY:Product Intelligence: Theory and Practice - Prof. Duncan McFarlane
  (University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20120621T130000Z
DTEND:20120621T140000Z
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CONTACT:Rengarajan
DESCRIPTION:Are there any benefits in allowing orders and products to be a
 ble to manage their own progress through a supply chain? The notion of ass
 ociating (and even embedding) information management and reasoning capabil
 ities with a physical product has been discussed for over ten years now. T
 his talk will review the notions of product intelligence and examine the r
 ationales for these models and the practicality of their implementation. A
  number of trial deployments in manufacturing\, logistics and aerospace wi
 ll be examined and the practical pros and cons of the intelligent product 
 model assessed.
LOCATION:Seminar 3\, Institute for Manufacturing\, 17 Charles Babbage Road
 \, Cambridge
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