Customer Co Creation in Smart Production Ecosystems Opportunities and Challenges for MDE
The traditional role of customers as passive consumers is gradually changing and consumers are actively participating in co creation of the products they buy. This shift in paradigm has implications on how products should be modeled and the tools around Model driven Engineering (MDE) must consider new ways of dealing with open innovation, thereby preserving the privacy and intellectual property rights of the product sellers. In this paper, we discuss how MDE can help in setting up a smart production ecosystem, enabling the interaction between product sellers and consumers and identify some challenges in this context. Some new research directions for MDE are outlined.
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