ManuNexus is a Manufacturing Network Navigator: a digital platform for representing manufacturing ecosystems and matching production demand with suitable resources using structured provider data, transparent feasibility criteria and explainable recommendations.
The Explore module maps actors and their evidence-backed capabilities. The Manufacture module turns a part request into a feasible provider set and compares quantity allocations and logistics. Current operational data used by the matching demonstrator are synthetic unless explicitly stated otherwise.
It is not yet a transactional marketplace, live capacity exchange, certified quotation engine, or general multi-step production orchestrator. Those functions are future extensions once real provider data and orders are available.
Capture file, quantity, process, material, color, deadline and location.
Use STL geometry or manual values to obtain dimensions, estimated mass and print time.
Apply hard technical, material, build-envelope, capacity and deadline filters.
Estimate machine hours, material, provider completion and synthetic cost.
Use provider/customer locations to estimate distance and route structures.
Use integer allocation across eligible nodes when one provider is insufficient or suboptimal.
Show selected and rejected providers, quantities, routes, criteria and assumptions.
Location, access, organization type and contact context.
Technologies, machines, build envelopes, materials and services.
Available machine-hours, lead time and batch constraints where available.
Evidence status and optional external reputation. Ratings are never fabricated when unavailable.
Minimizes estimated production, material, setup and logistics cost for the complete allocated order.
Minimizes estimated completion time of the complete order. A small cost tie-breaker avoids unnecessarily expensive equivalent solutions.
Combines normalized cost, time, distance and reliability criteria. Default weights are configurable by the user and shown explicitly in the result.
Cost 35% · Time 30% · Distance 15% · Reliability 20%. These are MVP defaults, not empirically validated universal weights.
Hard-filter rejection reasons are shown directly. Selected providers receive allocation and criterion explanations. Route mode, cost basis, synthetic-data status and analytical assumptions remain visible.