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Mass Customization

Challenges and Solutions

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. Thorsten Blecker

    1. Department of Business Logistics and General Management, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany

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  2. Gerhard Friedrich

    1. Department of Computer Science in Production, University Klagenfurt, Austria

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  • First book that outlines the field of mass customization, its concepts, themes, tools and successful implementations
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (ISOR, volume 87)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Mass Customization: State-of-the-Art and Challenges

    • Thorsten Blecker, Nizar Abdelkafi
    Pages 1-25

  3. Personalized Needs Elicitation in Web-based Configuration Systems

    • Gerold Kreutler, Dietmar Jannach
    Pages 27-42

  4. Model-Based Configuration Support For Software Product Families

    • Katharina Wolter, Lothar Hotz, Thorsten Krebs
    Pages 43-61

  5. Product Modeling on Multiple Abstraction Levels

    • Kaj A. Jørgensen
    Pages 63-84

  6. Mass Customization: Balancing Customer Desires with Operational Reality

    • Hossam Ismail, Iain Reid, Jenny Poolton, Ivan Arokiam
    Pages 85-109

  7. Design for Changeover (DFC)

    • Michael P. Reik, Richard I. McIntosh, Geraint W. Owen, A.R. Mileham, Steve J. Culley
    Pages 111-136

  8. Platform Products Development and Supply Chain Configuration: An Integrated Perspective

    • Xin Yan Zhang, George Q. Huang
    Pages 137-160

  9. Modularity and Delayed Product Differentiation in Assemble-to-Order Systems

    • Thorsten Blecker, Nizar Abdelkafi
    Pages 161-185

  10. A New Mixed-Model Assembly Line Planning Approach for an Efficient Variety Steering Integration

    • Stefan Bock
    Pages 187-210

  11. Order Fulfillment Models for the Catalog Mode of Mass Customization — A Review

    • Philip G Brabazon, Bart MacCarthy
    Pages 211-232

  12. Customer Service Level in a Lean Inventory under Mass Customization

    • Wuyi Lu, Janet Efstathiou, Ernesto del Valle Lehne
    Pages 233-250

  13. HRM Policies for Mass Customization

    • Cipriano Forza, Fabrizio Salvador
    Pages 251-269

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 271-282
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Business Logistics and General Management, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany

    Thorsten Blecker

  • Department of Computer Science in Production, University Klagenfurt, Austria

    Gerhard Friedrich

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