... of trajectories of the seat that slides vertically and rotates about a horizontal axis can be mass-customized to ergonomic parameters of the population. We present the concept, customization features, kinetoelastic analysis, prototyping, and preliminary testing. We illustrate the efficacy of the mechanism through...

...Proceedings of the 1999 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences September 12-15,1999, Las Vegas, Nevada DETC99/EIM-9026 INTEGRATED PRODUCT AND PRODUCTION DATA MANAGEMENT BASED ON GENERIC BILL OF MATERIALS AND OPERATIONS TO SUPPORT MASS CUSTOMIZATION PRODUCTION Jianxin Jiao, Mitchell M. Tseng...

...) who are usually short on financial resources and lack a broad range of technical skills. product development design tool design for assembly mass customization Proceedings of the ASME 2000 Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference...

... Abstract The purpose of this study is to optimize production planning decisions in additive manufacturing for mass customization (AMMC) systems in which customer demands are highly variable. The main research question is to find the optimal quantity of products for scheduling, the economic...

...DESIGNING THE CUSTOMER ORDER DECOUPLING POINT TO FACILITATE MASS CUSTOMIZATION Lin Guo The Systems Realization Laboratory @ OU University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA Suhao Chen School of Industrial Engineering and Management Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA Janet K. Allen1 John...

... is applied to the design of a line of customizable finger pumps. Product Family Product Platform Mass Customization Sensitivity Analysis Constructal Theory 1 Copyright © 2012 by ASME IDENTIFICATION OF PLATFORM VARIABLES IN PRODUCT FAMILY DESIGN USING SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS Chad Hume Email: chume3...

... Everyone knows Henry Ford’s famous maxim: “You can have any color car you want so long as it’s black”. While he is recognized as the father of mass production, his contributions extend well beyond that, offering valuable lessons for product platforming and mass customization. While Ford’s...

.... words: product flexibility; mass customization; nfigurable systems; product families TRODUCTION two consumers are identical there are typically differences ersonal preference (even if these are subtle), physical ity, or anatomy which introduce a certain degree of promise when a system or product...

... using the resulting common structure with a different exterior casing. This new method can be applied during detailed studies as well as in the early stages of the design process. Keywords: product family, mass customization, variety management, commonality 1. INTRODUCTION With markets becoming more...

... Product Platform Product Family Mass Customization Constructal Theory The Product Platform Constructal Theory Method enables a designer to develop product platforms for customizable products while handling issues of multiple levels of commonality, multiple product specifications...

... variety and customization can be a slow and costly ordeal. Hence, manufacturing enterprises are recognizing that product design presents the best control over offering such a variety (Anderson, 1997). Typically, mass customization is accomplished through developing product platforms a set of common...

... Rapid Prototyping Rapid Manufacturing Mass Customization In this paper we propose a general method for making process parameter decisions in the development of a rapid manufacturing system. Given a level of demand, the designer can use our method to select the appropriate type of rapid...

... (APD) for mass customization (MC). There are four folds of meanings in ppXML. Firstly, ppXML represents a set of constructs that are consistent with concepts and methods of Platform Product Development for Mass Customization. Secondly, derived from XML (eXtensible Markup Language) as a sublanguage...

... Product Platform Mass Customization Web-based Design Virtual Product Family For companies who must provide customized products on demand, it is important that the voice of the customer be addressed and incorporated early into the design process. Web-based design interfaces have emerged...

... Product Platform Product Family Mass Customization The objective in product platform design is to synthesize a set of components that will be shared by a number of product variants considering potential sacrifices in individual product performance that result from parts sharing. A good...

... Product Platform Mass Customization Constructal Theory The Product Platform Constructal Theory Method (PPCTM) provides designers with an approach for synthesizing multiple modes of managing customization in the development of product platforms. An assumption underlying PPCTM...

... of configurations and different specifications such as elevators, machine tools and smut-collectors. Mass Customization Product Family Configuration Design Nearest-neighbor Matching Proceedings of DETC/CIE 2005 1 Visiti 2 Addre exten exten struct can b in the has b and m interp rules requir design...

... 09 06 2008 Product platform and product family strategies place tremendous demands on the efficient capture, storage, and retrieval of information in the form of product data. The user’s adoption of an information management system for product families and mass customization...

... product family modularity mass customization Proceedings of IDETC/CIE 2006 ASME 2006 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference S S P im ia k, P ws comments on the li improvements, and futur Keywords: Product pla customization 1...