Mass Customization

Coletti, Paolo; Aichner, Thomas

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-18390-4_2

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“…Manufacturing experiences a trend towards more product variants and subsequently a movement to more customized or even personalized products [17] [18]. Supported by today's capabilities of information and communication technologies direct digital manufacturing is one of the key future trends in manufacturing [19].…”

Section: Bioplastic In Additive Manufacturing Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy Analysis of Bioplastics Processing

et al. 2017

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Considering environmental aspects is of growing interest over all life cycle phases of products. Being based on renewable and/or bio-degradable resources, bioplastics enable a positive contribution towards sustainable products in material and end of life phase. However, bioplastics can be more energy intensive during their manufacturing phase than their conventional competitors. As this contributes to the overall environmental sustainability of a product as well, it is necessary to acquire a better understanding about the energy demand of bioplastics in manufacturing. Therefore, this paper presents a study on the energy demand of bioplastic materials in injection moulding, milling, and fused deposition modelling 3D-printing including necessary preparation and drying processes. Based on this, a quantitative energy related assessment of manufacturing bioplastics in comparison to conventional plastics is possible.

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Section: Bioplastic In Additive Manufacturing Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy Analysis of Bioplastics Processing

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“…Production is increasingly oriented toward the demand for individual products in combination with high quality (Coletti & Aichner, 2011; Pine, 1993; Al Gaddawi & El Maraghy, 2012. This necessitates a flexible production, which often means for assembly employees an increasing workload, psychological strain, and potential for errors during assembly (Fast‐Berglund et al, 2013).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

User‐centered development of a worker guidance system for a flexible production line

Stockinger

Stuke

Subtil

2021

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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Worker guidance systems are digital assistance systems in production, which provide work‐related information and, thus, guide employees through production processes. This article describes the user‐centered development of such a worker guidance system for a flexible production line in a metrology company. Usage context analysis and requirements analysis illustrate the need for a simple and independent system that can be used voluntarily by employees. After two iterations of the human‐centered design process, an interactive software prototype was created and implemented on a tablet personal computer. In this prototype, all essential process and assembly information in the flexible production line is available to the employees in the form of text descriptions and pictures as step‐by‐step instructions, which can be selected via two‐step navigation. The final evaluation was conducted as a user study with N = 10 assembly workers in the flexible production line under realistic conditions and was also intended to find out at which level of detail the information should be displayed in the system. The system scored well on the system usability scale (between 65.8 and 70.8) and concerning acceptance. Using the worker guidance system, no assembly faults occurred during the user study. Due to the significantly shorter assembly time, but no further significant differences, it was decided to set up the less detailed assembly information as a standard in the system. However, employees can call up more detailed information, if necessary. This system will be used by the company in the future.

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“…economy of scale and economy of scope) (Daaboul, Da Cunha, Bernard & Laroche, 2011). Many definitions of mass customization have been proposed in the literature, the main understanding is to provide a custom product according to some specified characteristics for a mass market so as many units of one achieving cost and speed of mass production (Coletti & Aichner, 2011). The deployment of this strategy exhibits the supply chain to an increased complexity.…”

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Supply chain integration within mass customization: Tactical procurement, production and distribution modeling

Benbouja

Touil

Echchatbi

et al. 2021

JIEM

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Purpose: The actual market characteristic oriented toward customers’ requirements compels decision-makers to foresee customization abilities. Mass customization represents a valuable approach to combine customizable offers with mass production processes. From a supply chain standpoint, this paper attempts to develop an integrated procurement, production and distribution modeling to describe the generated framework structure formulation within tactical decision planning level.Design/methodology/approach: The paper provides a mixed integer linear programming model of a three echelon supply chain illustrated from the automotive industry with (a) customers: Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) identified as leaders and (b) first-tier supplier: wiring harnesses manufacturer (c) second-tier supplier: raw material supplier, identified as followers. The model formulation is depicted through dyadic relationships between stakeholders considering the specific operation enablers of the environment such as make to order, modular approach in addition to the corresponding inventory management policy.Findings: The integrated model is solved by an exact method which illustrates the feasibility of the formulation in addition to the observance of the applied constraints. A sensitivity analysis is performed to highlight the interdependency across some key parameters to provide managerial insights within the studied framework while keeping the optimal solvability of the model.Research limitations/implications: The limitation of this study is the computational experiment study. An extensive experiment with a real-word case will outline the optimal solvability status of the exact method and the necessity for a performance benchmark through the approximate solving approaches.Originality/value: The present research aims to contribute as first studies toward mathematical modeling for supply chain decision planning endeavor operating within mass customization business model.

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Mass Customization

Cited by 13 publications

References 15 publications

Energy Analysis of Bioplastics Processing

Energy Analysis of Bioplastics Processing

User‐centered development of a worker guidance system for a flexible production line

Supply chain integration within mass customization: Tactical procurement, production and distribution modeling

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