Synergies between Mass Customisation and Construction 4.0 Technologies

A Construction Management Framework for Mass Customisation in Traditional Construction

A Mass Customisation model is discussed as a competitive positioning strategy in the marketplace adding value to the customer’s end-use. It includes the user as part of the construction process responding to the customer’s demands and wishes. To the present day, almost all proposals for Mass Customisation have been focused on the design phase and single family houses. The reality is that the pr...

Mass Customisation through Personalised Brochures: The Role of Emerging Technologies

This paper argues that despite the wide adoption of Internet technologies in destination marketing, information is still disseminated through printed brochures that have largely remained unchanged and unaffected by the trend towards greater personalisation of service. We argue that innovations in IT such as digital printing, allow for the replacement of the inflexible brochures of the past with...

On Synergies between Model Transformations and Semantic Web Technologies

The integration of heterogeneous data is a reoccurring problem in different technical spaces. With the rise of model-driven engineering (MDE), much effort has been spent in developing dedicated transformation languages and accompanying engines to transform, compare, and synchronize heterogeneous models. At the same time, ontologies have been proposed in the Semantic Web area as the main mean to...

Mass Customisation of Creative Designs

Among a nation’s goals are competitive leadership in the international marketplace and excellence in industrial productivity. Superior design, a fundamental prerequisite for superior products and systems, is one of the keys for achieving these goals. Computer aids to design (computer-aided design) have the potential to unlock this key. Whilst the early work on computer-aided design concentrated...

Smartphone Technology, Consumer Attachment and Mass Customisation