The Influence of Mass Customization Strategy on Configuration Complexity of Assembly Systems

Modrák, Vladimír; Márton, Dávid; Bednár, Slavomír

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2015.06.071

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“…Several studies, those by [16][17][18][19] for example, have underlined the fact that with the increasing demand for individual products and variants the transition from mass customization (MC) towards a personalized customization becomes more and more realistic. Some studies have considered advanced methods and techniques that lead to formal approaches for the design of entire product families in terms of MC.…”

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Management of Product Configuration Conflicts to Increase the Sustainability of Mass Customization

Modrák

Šoltysová

2020

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An important role in product variety management is finding an accurate variety extent to which the product matches the consumer’s expectations. In principle, customers prefer to have more rather than less versions of a product from which to choose. This motivates producers to offer a richer variety of goods. As a consequence, it brings a large amount of manufacturing complexity, and configuration conflicts may frequently occur. In order to avoid a situation in which a customer will select mutually incompatible components, product configurators usually recommend corrective actions for generating valid configurations. Nevertheless, the presence of infeasible configurations in customer options are negatively perceived by customers, and therefore it has an unfavorable impact on the sustainability of mass customization. One way to solve this problem is to eliminate, or at least reduce, mutually incompatible components. When considering the fact that eliminating all incompatible components may cause a rapid decrease in product variety, then the reduction of incompatible components can help to solve the product configuration problem. The proposed method aims to find a trade-off solution between minimizing configuration conflicts and maintaining a sufficient level of mass customization. Moreover, two supplementary methods for the determination of infeasible product configurations are proposed in this paper. The applicability and effectiveness of the proposed methods are demonstrated by two practical examples.

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Management of Product Configuration Conflicts to Increase the Sustainability of Mass Customization

Modrák

Šoltysová

2020

Sustainability

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“…Relations between supply chains and sustainability were also treated in works [19,20] in which the authors analyzed the effect of distributed manufacturing systems on sustainability. The study [21] explored the influence of mass customization strategy on the configuration complexity of assembly systems, and their authors proposed bounds for configuration complexity scale. ASCs in terms of mass customization can lead to very complex systems due to the high number of product variants.…”

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Complexity Assessment of Assembly Supply Chains from the Sustainability Viewpoint

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Assembly supply chain systems are becoming increasingly complex and, as a result, there is more and more need to design and manage them in a way that benefits the producers and also satisfies the interests of community stakeholders. The structural (static) complexity of assembly supply chain networks is one of the most important factors influencing overall system complexity. Structures of such networks can be modeled as a graph, with machines as nodes and material flow between the nodes as links. The purpose of this paper is to analyze existing assembly supply chain complexity assessment methods and propose such complexity metric(s) that will be able to accurately reflect not only specific criteria for static complexity measures, but also selected sustainability aspects. The obtained results of this research showed that selected complexity indicators reflect sustainability facets in different ways, but one of them met the mentioned requirements acceptably.

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“…Mass customization brings a great deal of complexity to assembly operations, which affect key elements of the system as well as other nearby areas, such as quality, supply chain or maintenance.Assembly complexity has can been evaluated from different perspectives: the number of product variants [32], induced task differences [33] or product configuration [34]. Complexity has a negative effect on quality, which could be minimized by using cognitive automation [35].…”

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Lean Manual Assembly 4.0: A Systematic Review

2020

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In a demand context of mass customization, shifting towards the mass personalization of products, assembly operations face the trade-off between highly productive automated systems and flexible manual operators. Novel digital technologies—conceptualized as Industry 4.0—suggest the possibility of simultaneously achieving superior productivity and flexibility. This article aims to address how Industry 4.0 technologies could improve the productivity, flexibility and quality of assembly operations. A systematic literature review was carried out, including 234 peer-reviewed articles from 2010–2020. As a result, the analysis was structured addressing four sets of research questions regarding (1) assembly for mass customization; (2) Industry 4.0 and performance evaluation; (3) Lean production as a starting point for smart factories, and (4) the implications of Industry 4.0 for people in assembly operations. It was found that mass customization brings great complexity that needs to be addressed at different levels from a holistic point of view; that Industry 4.0 offers powerful tools to achieve superior productivity and flexibility in assembly; that Lean is a great starting point for implementing such changes; and that people need to be considered central to Assembly 4.0. Developing methodologies for implementing Industry 4.0 to achieve specific business goals remains an open research topic.

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The Influence of Mass Customization Strategy on Configuration Complexity of Assembly Systems

Cited by 25 publications

References 12 publications

Management of Product Configuration Conflicts to Increase the Sustainability of Mass Customization

Management of Product Configuration Conflicts to Increase the Sustainability of Mass Customization

Complexity Assessment of Assembly Supply Chains from the Sustainability Viewpoint

Lean Manual Assembly 4.0: A Systematic Review

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