Mass Customization: Challenges and Solutions

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Blecker, Thorsten (Editor), Friedrich, Gerhard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 87
• Subjects: Business.; Management science.; Marketing.; Production management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Industrial engineering.; Production engineering.; Engineering economics.; Engineering economy.; Business and Management.; Operations Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Industrial and Production Engineering.; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing.; Business and Management, general.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.