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. 2021 Jul:60:928-935.
doi: 10.1016/j.jmsy.2021.02.016. Epub 2021 Mar 3.

New IT driven rapid manufacturing for emergency response

Qinglin Qi  1   2 , Fei Tao  1 , Ying Cheng  1 , Jiangfeng Cheng  1 , A Y C Nee  3
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New IT driven rapid manufacturing for emergency response

Qinglin Qi et al. J Manuf Syst. 2021 Jul.

Abstract

COVID-19, which is rampant around the world, has seriously disrupted people's normal work and living. To respond to public urgent needs such as COVID-19, emergency supplies are essential. However, due to the special requirements of supplies, when an emergency occurs, the supply reserve mostly cannot cope with the high demand. Given the importance of emergency supplies in public emergencies, rapid response manufacturing of emergency supplies is a necessity. The faster emergency supplies and facilities are manufactured, the more likely the pandemic can be controlled and the more human lives are saved. Besides, new generation information technology represented by cloud computing, IoT, big data, AI, etc. is rapidly developing and can be widely used to address such situations. Therefore, rapid response manufacturing enabled by New IT is presented to quickly meet emergency demands. And some policy suggestions are presented.

Keywords: COVID-19; Digital twin; Emergency response; New IT; Rapid manufacturing.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors report no declarations of interest.

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The public emergencies.
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The contradictions in production of emergency supplies.
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New IT enable rapid manufacturing of emergency supplies.
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