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The network nature of manufacturing may not be captured by further detailing the systems thinking. The scope has to be widened up. To speed up research progresses, the base for further grounded theory has to be strengthened and the role of outside disciplines for manufacturing has to be newly established in order to profit from the catalysing forces and fruitful impacts of other disciplines’ work. Research work at the intersections of disciplines, changing the core of manufacturing by intensive interaction, necessitates theory building on the base of a unified language. Mathematical topology may be identified as accountable discipline, as it offers adequate abstractions as well as the explicative power to capture the relevant manufacturing contexts and objects. The Hausdorff space with its attached spaces and the respective mappings perfectly translate the Cyber Physical Production Systems into theory and application likewise. Moreover, it smoothly harmonises the relevant models that are applied for effective virtualisations of manufacturing processes, as aimed at. The resulting framework captures all network principles and smart unit properties, and lays ground for standardisation efforts. |
