International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
              Volume              872006
Mass Customization: Challenges and Solutions Editors:

• Thorsten Blecker,
• Gerhard Friedrich
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ISBN: 978-0-387-32222-3 (Print) 978-0-387-32224-7  (Online)

About this book
Mass Customization: Challenges and Solutions defines the parameters of the emerging business strategy of mass customization. The book covers the main categories of the area with a systematic examination of the following themes: manufacturing systems and mass customization; supply chain management and mass customization; and information systems and mass customization.
The editors have contributed introductory and concluding chapters, as well as notes introducing each section. The result is a book that provides a conceptual framework for mass customization, its tools, its solutions, and real-world examples of successful implementations of the business strategy.
This is an important book for academics, and those working in production operations, production manufacturing, industrial engineering, logistics, supply chain management, and industry practitioners.

Table of contents / Sample pages Mass customization: state-of-the-art and challenges.- Personalized needs elicitation in web-based configuration systems.- Model-based configuration support for software product families.- Product modeling on multiple abstraction levels.- Mass customization: balancing customer desires with operational reality.- Design for changeover (DFC).- Platform products development and supply chain configuration: an integrated perspective.- Modularity and delayed product differentiation in assemble-to-order systems.- A new mixed-model assembly line planning approach for an efficient variety steering integration.- Order fulfillment models for the catalog mode of mass customization - a review.- Customer service level in a lean inventory under mass customization.- HRM policies for mass customization.- Index.- Contributors.