Product and Process Design in Mass Customization
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Industrial Technologies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2022) | Viewed by 373
Special Issue Editors
Interests: industrial engineering; production planning; manufacturing management; optimization algorithms; production engineering; mass customization; optimization methods; logistics
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Interests: production planning and schedulin; manufacturing management; simulation; mass customization
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last decenniums, mass customization (MC) developed into one of the leading business strategies in the production of goods and services. MC is both marketing and manufacturing strategy, whereby companies expand their sphere of influence by providing attractive combinations of designs or services and raising the added value of products by addressing individual customer requirements. However, MC is not something that can be sprayed onto a business, or bought in a software package. MC is a complex business strategy which concentrates on advanced technologies by which companies can be comparable profitable as a way to produce no customized goods and services. Moreover, product lifecycles of mass customized products are shortening compared to traditional mass production and their design time has to shrink. In this order, modular product and process design is being considered as a key feature to support this business model. Obviously, a modular design approach is not new as it has been used for numerous years, e.g., in civil engineering, software development, and other domains. Usually the design complexity of customized products is significantly higher than mass produced products. Especially in the early design phase, engineers have to anticipate the addition of new product features and/or functionalities. Analogically, manufacturing processes in mass customization environment might by as modular as possible, since such architectural patterns help in increasing adaptability when addressing each new production demand. In this context, this Special Issue aims to collect original contributions related to product and process design in terms of mass customization.
Examples of potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Rapid manufacturing;
- Application of Axiomatic design theory in mass customization;
- From mass customization to mass personalization;
- Reconfigurable manufacturing;
- Robust product and process design;
- Product configurators;
- Management of product configuration conflicts;
- Product and process modularity;
- Product and process complexity;
- Additive manufacturing for mass customization;
Modelling and simulation for mass customization.
Dr. Vladimir Modrak
Dr. Zuzana Soltysova
Guest Editors
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