Product agile customization design is an effective technological measure to win the customers and improve development efficiency. In this paper, on the basis of analyzing the characteristics of product design process and integrating the advantages of artificial neural network (ANN), a novel design method of product agile customization based on ANN is put forward. In the method, ANN models betwe...

The so-called ‘Open Compilers’ is a technique to incorporate various self-descriptive modules for language customization and optimization based on computational reflection. We apply the open compiler technique to a Java Just-In-Time compiler to develop the OpenJIT compiler, which allows class-specific customization and optimization, fostering research of new compilation techniques such as appli...

Mass customization enhances profitability through a synergy of increasing customer-perceived value and reducing the costs of production and logistics. It inherently makes high value-added products and services possible through premium profits derived from customized products. This strength is particularly attractive to OEM-based industries. This paper discusses the opportunities and challenges ...

Mass customization manufacturing requires a high level of reconfigurability and flexibility in production – especially in production planning and control –, effective information systems, as well as suitable production concepts. Multi-agent systems theoretically provide the required features, but a lack of informational integration and organizational incompatibilities lead to low applicability....

7 Abstract A demanding task for many companies today is that of learning to 8 regard customers as individuals, of proactively developing products and services 9 according to the individual customer preferences, and of subsequently producing 10 and distributing these offerings. Over the last decade, mass customization has 11 emerged as an effective approach for tackling precisely this task. In t...

The paper intends to present clear pictures of research evolution in two research domains based on a thorough literature review: The service system design and mass customization areas. It identifies a necessity for integrating these two areas, which adopted the concepts of mass customization to guide the service delivery system design to cope with the traditional operation dilemma. This could l...

The growing accessibility of internet service, especially in the Internet Plus era, supported mass customization in the apparel industry. As mass customization emphasize on providing individually-designed products and services to meet every customer requirement, the advanced Internet-based service systems help achieve high process flexibility and integration. In this paper, we studied the trian...

Increasingly, firms adopt mass customization, which allows consumers to customize products by self-selecting their most preferred composition of the product for a predefined set of modules. For example, PC vendors such as Dell allow customers to customize their PC by choosing the type of processor, memory size, monitor, etc. However, how such firms configure the mass customization process deter...