This book defines the parameters of the emerging business strategy of mass customization, covering the main categories in a systematic examination of: manufacturing systems and mass customization; supply chain management and mass customization; and information systems and mass customization. The book provides a conceptual framework for mass customization, its tools, its solutions, and real-world examples of successful implementations of the business strategy.

Zusammenfassung

Mass Customization: Challenges and Solutions defines the parameters of the emerging business strategy, mass customization. The book will cover the main categories of the area with a systematic examination of the following themes: manufacturing systems and mass customization, supply chain management and mass customization, and information systems and mass customization.

In addition to being tightly organized by themes and a carefully selected group of contributors, the Editors will write introductory material to the sections along with introductory and concluding chapters. The result is a book that provides the field with the conceptual framework of mass customization, its tools, its solutions, and real-world examples of successful implementations of the business strategy. An important book for academics working in production operations, production manufacturing, industrial engineering, logistics, supply chain management, and industry practitioners.

Inhalt
Mass Customization: State-of-the-Art and Challenges.- Personalized Needs Elicitation in Web-based Configuration Systems.- Model-Based Configuration Support For Software Product Families.- Product Modeling on Multiple Abstraction Levels.- Mass Customization: Balancing Customer Desires with Operational Reality.- Design for Changeover (DFC).- Platform Products Development and Supply Chain Configuration: An Integrated Perspective.- Modularity and Delayed Product Differentiation in Assemble-to-Order Systems.- A New Mixed-Model Assembly Line Planning Approach for an Efficient Variety Steering Integration.- Order Fulfillment Models for the Catalog Mode of Mass Customization A Review.- Customer Service Level in a Lean Inventory under Mass Customization.- HRM Policies for Mass Customization.