Mass Customization Manufacturing Systems: Challenges, Concepts, and Implementation
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2023) | Viewed by 311
Special Issue Editor
Interests: industrial engineering; production planning; manufacturing management; optimization algorithms; production engineering; mass customization; optimization methods; logistics
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Dear Colleagues,
In the global business environment, manufacturing companies are facing several important challenges. One of them is the growing demand for products which are tailored to an individual customer’s requirements. This demand has stimulated mass customization (MC), which is becoming increasingly important in production and operations management. Some of the objectives of this Special Issue are: to characterize the current trends of MC, to provide examples on how it differs from other manufacturing strategies, and to determine what the future of manufacturing will be when it takes a prevailing worldwide approach to satisfying customers' expectations.
This Special Issue invites contributors to discuss their latest findings in the field of mass customization from the designer, manufacturer, and customer perspectives. The intention is to outline some important issues in the development and operation of mass customization manufacturing systems as well as to discuss the challenges and opportunities that mass customized manufacturing faces. The aim is to disseminate current developments and approaches for further theoretical investigation and practical applications of mass customized manufacturing systems. A special focus of interest is also on strategies for the development of product configurators.
Prof. Dr. Vladimir Modrak
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- configuration process models
- customer-driven manufacturing
- make-to-order or build-to-order
- reconfigurable manufacturing systems
- product platforms for mass customization
- process and product modularization
- modeling of mass customizable products
- modeling of mass customized processes
- scheduling in mass customization
- strategies for mass customization
- mass customization from an economic perspective
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