132 research outputs found
Den rekonfigurerbare fabrik
No full textWatch Associate Professor Thomas D. Brunø explain how a reconfigurable factory may be the solution for companies experiencing an increasing number of product variants, requirements for shorter lead times and a desire for ever smaller production batches. <br/
Den rekonfigurerbare fabrik
No full textWatch Associate Professor Thomas D. Brunø explain how a reconfigurable factory may be the solution for companies experiencing an increasing number of product variants, requirements for shorter lead times and a desire for ever smaller production batches. <br/
Danish Public Construction Counselling Selection and Assignment Criteria in European Tendering
No full textOne of the largest customers in the Danish construction industry ispublic agencies that own and develop projects. For some of the counselling services, they recur to be put out in European tendering. The aim is to find which selection and assignment criteria are used most in public tendering. How projects use selection and assignment criteria for counselling services and finally if there is significant use of selection and assignment methods in public counselling. The method is based on 74 public counselling tenders from the European Tenders Electronic Daily database from January 2010 to March 2013. A following standard error and Fisher’s exact test were conducted to test if there were any significant relations. Results indicate that invited tender with pre-qualification and most economically advantageous offer in 57.1 % of the tenders are the most used selection and assignment criteria in public counselling services
A Case Investigation of Product Structure Complexity in Mass Customization using a Data Mining Approach
No full textThis paper presents a data mining method for analyzing historical configurationdata providing a number of opportunities for improving mass customizationcapabilities. The overall objective of this paper is to investigate how specificquantitative analyses, more specifically the association rule Apriori, can support thedevelopment within the three fundamental mass customization capabilities. Theresults of the Apriori analysis can be utilized for improving the configuration process by introducing soft constraints and consolidating the product structure by joining components or modules and finally for improving production planning and control
Customization Issues - A Four Level Customization Model
No full textImplementation of mass customization and product configuration incompanies requires fundamental considerations about how products can fulfil the demand from customers. In order to support such decision-making, a multi-level model for customization is developed. This model identifies four different levels of customization, ranging from the structure level at the bottom, through the performance level and the experience level, to the learning level at the top. The model also has a dual view with customers/demand at one side and product/supplier at the other side. It is a rather general model, which can be applied to many types of products, and typically, product designers must decide how far up in levels the customization should aim. In this paper, the four-level customization model is applied to wheel chairs
Mass Customization as Innovation Driver of International Competitiveness in Peripheral Regional SME Subcontractors
No full textThe manufacturing literature has for long been occupied with thelinking of manufacturing capabilities with the competitive advantages of thecompany. The dominant manufacturing content approach is concerned withthe consistent set of decisions about process technology design and organizationalpractices that can be exploited as competitive capabilities. This paper suggests thatan open network structure demands a transformation of peripheral-located SMEsubcontractor from traditional customized producer to mass customized producer.Mass customization as an instrument for the transformation process consisting ofpractical tools on many different company levels will comply with the challengesthe international competition charts
Describing Product Variety using Set Theory
No full textThree capabilities: solution space development, robust process design,and choice navigation are critical for mass customizers. In order to become andstay competitive, it is proposed to establish assessment methods for these capabilities.This paper investigates the usage of set theory as a means for developingmetrics and assessment systems. It is concluded that set theory cannot be used asan assessment method directly but is useful in the development of metrics
Enabling Facilitation of Mass Customization via Partnering in the Construction Industry
No full textIn the past decades, the manufacturing industry has gone through dramaticimprovement in productivity, cycle time, and inventory level of manufacturingapplying information technology and manufacturing technology. However,the construction industry has not yet been able to enjoy similar magnitude ofimprovements. The aim of this paper is therefore to investigate which of thenormally used procurement forms in the Danish construction industry wouldfacilitate the implementing mass customization. Benchmark results from 2,318cases were obtained from The Benchmark Centre for the Danish ConstructionSector containing information on the realization processes and the integration ofcustomers likely to answer the question of which procurement or contract formthat would best accommodate the facilitation of near-mass customization performance.To test this, a one-way ANOVA comparison was used, and it was foundthat Partnering and Turnkey Contracts significantly enhance the likelihood offacilitating the implementing mass customization than all other contract forms
Mass Customization Measurements Metrics
No full textA recent survey has indicated that 17 % of companies have ceased masscustomizing less than 1 year after initiating the effort. This paper presents measurementfor a company’s mass customization performance, utilizing metricswithin the three fundamental capabilities: robust process design, choice navigation,and solution space development. A mass customizer when assessing performancewith these metrics can identify within which areas improvement wouldincrease competitiveness the most and enable more efficient transition to masscustomization
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