Guest Editorial: Mass Customization Manufacturing Systems

An Entropy-Based Formulation for Assessing the Complexity Level of a Mass Customization Industry 4.0 Environment

“…Regarding the role of flexibility: a key mass customization capability-understood this last as a bundle of routines and resources that contribute to performance [71]-is process flexibility [72]. In this case, two fundamental flexibility requirements for mass customization production systems are product mix, ability adapt, and produce to diverse customer requirements; and changeover flexibility, ability to switch between different products and/ or components in a fast-paced and cost-efficient manner [22]. Bellemare [73] refers to these as flexibility and changeability-critical enablers for efficient mass customization [74]-as they allow the runtime capabilities such as fast and easy reconfiguration of production facilities, that without them, product variability and customization would result in tremendous increase of production costs [75].…”

“…At this point, it must be noted that, in order for the βε MC 4.0 expression to truly represent the manufacturing complexity of a mass customization production system operating within an Industry 4.0 environment, the complexity contribution of the product, process, and resources elements must be taken into account. ese elements refer to (i) Product: the different number of manufactured products, the number of number of corresponding components and functions, and the overall products' mix ratio (ii) Process: the different routings for each product and the corresponding processing times (iii) Resources: the different types of machinery, number and type of operations capable of performing, and number of required setups Mass customization measurement [24,27,67] Mass customization and complexity [27,68,69] Mass customization and flexibility [22,[72][73][74][75] Flexibility and complexity [30] 4 Mathematical Problems in Engineering Now, Martínez-Olvera explained in his work of [76] (equation 1) and [77] (equation 2) why formulations such as the ones presented by [58,86] need to be modified in order to reflect the impact the BOM structure has on the process flow. In a similar way, equations (1) and (2) must be adapted in order to reflect the manufacturing complexity contribution to the mass customization production system operating within an Industry 4.0 environment:…”

“…In simple terms, mass customization is a value chain-based manufacturing strategy [19] that aims to offer customized goods at low cost [20]. Within this context, there is a high level of uncertainty result of the variety of customer needs/preferences [21], which when viewed in terms of an increased number of components/parts, setups, and production processes is translated into a high level of manufacturing complexity [22], referred by [23,24] as product variety-induced complexity. Moreover, the use of the Industry 4.0 potentialities is seen as an enabler of mass customization [25], when considering that Industry 4.0 is a business-wide transformation-rather than a collection of technological projects-that allows a great potential for business value creation if information is properly exploited [26].…”

Seleção de práticas de desenvolvimento de produto orientado à customização em massa

“…Determinar o nível de customização depende de uma análise dos requisitos do cliente, sua percepção de valor sobre a possibilidade de customização, e das restrições para operacionalizar essa customização (DA SILVEIRA et al, 2001;QIAO et al, 2008). Com isto, encontrar o equilíbrio entre a variedade de produtos, representada pelo nível de customização, e o aumento de custos operacionais consiste em um importante desafio para a CM (BLECKER;FRIEDRICH, 2007).…”

Supply chain configuration management

“…CM involves four functions to include (1) configuration identification, (2) configuration control, (3) configuration status accounting, and (4) configuration audits. CM is baseline management (Le.…”