Chapter 26The Smart City Production System
Gary Graham1, Jag Srai2, Patrick Hennelly2 and Roy Meriton1
1Dept – Business School, Leeds University Business School, Leeds, UK
2Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge University IfM, Cambridge, UK
Chapter Menu
Introduction
Types of Production System: Historical Evolution
The Integrated Smart City Production System Framework
Production System Design
Chapter Summary
Objectives
- • To classify and categorize the different types of industrial production system.
- • To develop a smart city production system framework.
- • To critically assess the role of the smart city in reconfiguring supply chain design.
26.1 Introduction
Historically, cities have provided the input resources for production and allowed urban logistics connections for manufacturing to occur [1]. This fostered creative cooperation among firms and enabled the spontaneous aggregation of firms into industrial systems. Furthermore, cities encouraged new firm start-ups, lowered entry barriers, and provided quasi-public goods (i.e., infrastructure and utility services) to firms. The concept of the industrial city came to the fore in the 1920s with the rise of the manufacturing philosophy of Fordism. This led to the development of the modern economic and social system based on industrialized, standardized mass production and mass consumption. In the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and the Soviet Union, the spread of Fordism involved the growth of core industrial regions ...
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