β Scribed by Thorsten Blecker, Nizar Abdelkafi (auth.), Thorsten Blecker, Gerhard Friedrich (eds.)
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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.
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Mass Customization: State-of-the-Art and Challenges....Pages 1-25
Personalized Needs Elicitation in Web-based Configuration Systems....Pages 27-42
Model-Based Configuration Support For Software Product Families....Pages 43-61
Product Modeling on Multiple Abstraction Levels....Pages 63-84
Mass Customization: Balancing Customer Desires with Operational Reality....Pages 85-109
Design for Changeover (DFC)....Pages 111-136
Platform Products Development and Supply Chain Configuration: An Integrated Perspective....Pages 137-160
Modularity and Delayed Product Differentiation in Assemble-to-Order Systems....Pages 161-185
A New Mixed-Model Assembly Line Planning Approach for an Efficient Variety Steering Integration....Pages 187-210
Order Fulfillment Models for the Catalog Mode of Mass Customization β A Review....Pages 211-232
Customer Service Level in a Lean Inventory under Mass Customization....Pages 233-250
HRM Policies for Mass Customization....Pages 251-269
Back Matter....Pages 271-282
Production/Logistics; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Industrial and Production Engineering; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing; Marketing; Business/Management Science, general
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