Globalization and social networks are dramatically changing the producer-buyer landscape.
Consumers have an increasing desire to buy unique products that precisely reflect their …

Traditional manufacturing researches are mainly focusing on one concrete technology
application, such as production model, supplier management, advanced automatic …

This paper reviews the development of the paradigms of manufacturing, including mass
production, mass customization and the emerging paradigm of personalization. In each …

Mass personalization is becoming a reality. It requires responsive and flexible
manufacturing operations for producing individualized products in dynamic batch sizes at …

This book brings several original contributions to research and practical applications in the
field of mass customization from the designer, manufacturer, and customer perspectives …

Current manufacturing industry has witnessed the trends of socialization, personalization,
and servitization, which prompts the appearance of social manufacturing paradigm. This …

Mass customization aims at satisfying individual customer needs while keeping mass
production efficiency. This paper discusses the employment of concurrent engineering for …

Mass customization as a state-of-the-art production paradigm aims to produce
individualized, highly variant products and services with nearly mass production costs. A …

Mass customization aims to deliver products and services that best meet individual
customers' needs with near mass production efficiency (Tseng et al. 1996). In this paradigm …

This paper suggests that Mass-Individualization, which is based on a consumer product that
consists of an open hardware platform and multiple modules that are interfaced with the …