Product configuration: a review of the state-of-the-art and future research

LL Zhang - International Journal of Production Research, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Being able to provide companies with a number of advantages in delivering customised
products, product configuration has received increasing attention from the academia and …

Increasing the consumer-perceived benefits of a mass-customization experience through sales-configurator capabilities

A Trentin, E Perin, C Forza - Computers in Industry, 2014 - Elsevier
The consumer's experience of self-customizing a product with a sales configurator can be a
source of experience-related benefits for the consumer, above and beyond the traditionally …

Product configuration using redundancy and standardisation in an uncertain environment

Q Song, Y Ni, DA Ralescu - International Journal of Production …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Product configuration involves selecting common components/modules of individualised
products. This is done according to customer requirements under mass customisation …

An integrated approach to optimize the configuration of mass-customized products and reconfigurable manufacturing systems

RC Sabioni, J Daaboul, J Le Duigou - The International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
The current global unpredictable market is characterized by increasing demand for highly
customized products. To thrive in this scenario, it becomes essential to establish a closer …

Return on investment from the use of product configuration systems–A case study

K Kristjansdottir, S Shafiee, L Hvam, M Bonev… - Computers in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Product configuration systems (PCS) are increasingly being used in industrial companies to
enable the efficient design of customized products. The literature describes substantial …

Knowledge driven multiview bill of material reconfiguration for complex products in the digital twin workshop

Y Wang, Y Wang, W Ren, Z Jiang - The International Journal of Advanced …, 2024 - Springer
For the problem of long modeling time and large workload of multiview bill of material
(XBOM) reconstruction process in digital twin shop, this paper proposes a knowledge-driven …

The costs and benefits of multistage configuration: A framework and case study

JB Rasmussen, A Haug, S Shafiee, L Hvam… - Computers & Industrial …, 2021 - Elsevier
Product configuration systems (PCSs) have been successful applications of artificial
intelligence principles in engineer-to-order (ETO) companies in recent decades. Such …

Towards customization: Evaluation of integrated sales, product, and production configuration

LL Zhang, CKM Lee, P Akhtar - International Journal of Production …, 2020 - Elsevier
Unlike most of the available configuration solutions, the integrated sales, product and
production configuration is proposed to help companies realize product customization from …

Product⋎ service system configuration: a generic knowledge-based model for commercial offers

D Guillon, R Ayachi, É Vareilles… - … Journal of Production …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
At a time when modes of consumption are rapidly evolving, consumer attitudes and
expectations are changing. Today, customers want more and more products and services …

Implementing configurators to enable mass customization in the Engineer-to-Order industry: a multiple case study research

VG Cannas, A Masi, M Pero… - Production planning & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Engineer-to-Order (ETO) companies are embracing the mass customisation
strategy to face the challenges posed by global competition. Product configurators are key …