Jain, Piu Garg, Suresh Kansal, Gayatri
Published in
The International Journal, Advanced Manufacturing Technology
The enduring fluctuations in market demand, exemplified by exceedingly unpredictable customer requirements, have given rise to mass customization (MC), which is acquiring increasing prominence in production and operations management. Fostering on the foundation laid by erstwhile researcher Hart in Int J Serv Ind Manag 6:36–45 [ 1 ], who developed a...
Liu, Chunfeng Yang, Xiao Wang, Jufeng
Published in
RAIRO - Operations Research
In the era of mass customization, designing optimal products is one of the most critical decision-making for a company to stay competitive. More and more customers like customized products, which will bring challenges to the product line design and the production. If a company adopts customers’ favorite levels, this may lead to lower product reliab...
Campos Sabioni, Rachel
Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS) emerged from companies’ needs to increase their responsiveness to an uncertain market, in which customers are increasingly demanding mass-customised products. Companies focused on mass customisation mainly use the modular product design strategy to cost-effectively provide a large product variety. Hence, c...
Minvielle, Etienne Fourcade, Aude Ricketts, Thomas Waelli, Mathias
Published in
BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundIn recent years, there has been a growing interest in health care personalization and customization (i.e. personalized medicine and patient-centered care). While some positive impacts of these approaches have been reported, there has been a dearth of research on how these approaches are implemented and combined for health care delivery sy...
Boon, W.P.C. (author) van Wee, G.P. (author)
3D printing (3DP) is an emerging technology associated with a more tailor-made, distributed way of manufacturing which, if successful, is bound to have repercussions on transport, supply chains, and logistics. This contribution delves into what 3DP is, how it will influence consumer wants and needs, location choices and transport resistance, and ho...
MOBERG, AGNES TOFT, JOSEFINE
In complex and fast-paced times, management of innovation is suggested to explain the success of an organization, making managing innovation an important topic in strategy, organization and innovation literature. At the same time, the demand for customized solutions is increasing and the customers are becoming more important. A current example of a...
Benhamou, Latifa Giard, Vincent FENIES, Pierre Fontane, Frédéric Khouloud, Mehdi
Dans la production manufacturière, la personnalisation de masse s’effectue par une combinaison de composants alternatifs montés sur une ligne d’assemblage. Dans l’industrie de process, elle est plus difficile car elle implique la fabrication successive de lots de produits différents, ce qui limite la diversité offerte en raison de l’inertie tempore...
Choe, Byongnam Lee, Sang-ho Lee, Tae-kyeong
Published in
Spatial Information Research
Current ready-made geospatial information (GI) production method of National Geographic Information Institute causes issues, including duplications and inconsistencies of data, and low customer satisfaction. This study suggests concept, framework, approach, and strategy for mass customization of GI to tackle the current production method. First, th...
Ezzat, Omar Medini, Khaled Boucher, Xavier Delorme, Xavier
Due to the increased diversity in customer requirements, many manufacturers are in the process of evolving from mass production to mass customization (MC) whereby products and services are tailored to specific customer needs. Even though MC strategy was described decades ago, its implementation within industry is hindered by the partial understandi...
Bednar, Slavomir Rauch, Erwin
Published in
The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
In current business environment, many original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are employing mass customization strategies, which have implication on the entire operations of an enterprise and especially influence the character of their assembly processes. Increased product differentiation in context of mass-customized production (MCP) causes signif...
