System architecture

Solution Oriented Partnership is about the conception and development of solutions. More precisely: it is about industrialised, contextualised, sustainable solutions that are produced and delivered by networks of partners: the solution-oriented partnerships. It is also about a new idea of industrialization: an advanced industrialization with the capacity to bring a multiplicity of players together to collaborate in an effective way, with a view to sustainable objectives. The book is organised in two parts: Themes, that discusses the nature of partner-based solutions, and Tools, that introduces methodological tools for their conception and development. “System Architecture” is a chapter of the Themes and is focused on the ways to define system rules able to assure flexibility on one side and industrial production processes on the other side. Partner-based solutions arises from the activity of a group of research centres and European enterprises, funded under the European Community 5th Framework Programme. This research, known as HiCS, Highly Customerised Solutions, coordinated by the author Luisa Collina, was an action research, the specific subject of which has been “food for people with reduced mobility”.