Product Customization via Starting Solutions

Multi-Level Product Line Customization

Managing and developing a set of software products jointly using a software product line approach has achieved significant productivity and quality gain in the last decade. More and more, product lines now are becoming themselves entities that are sold and bought in the software supply chain. Customers build more specialized product lines on top of them or derive themselves the concrete product...

Customization: Impact on Product and Process Performance

A Cad Interface for Product Customization

Executive Summary Product customization has become more prevalent in today's manufacturing industry. In fact, given a choice in today's society and taking into consideration the present technology, customers would prefer a product that can be built according to their specific needs and desires (Kumar, 2008). Customization of a product is typically done by an individual possessing the necessary ...

Mass Customization Via Rapid Manufacturing

Rapid prototyping has become the primary means by which assembly engineers obtain prototype parts needed for systems design. Some predict that rapid prototyping will soon evolve into rapid manufacturing. Rather than having factories full of mass production equipment, factories will consist of hundreds of inexpensive layer-based fabrication machines that can economically produce custom parts. Ma...

Product Customization as Linked Data: Demonstration

Exposing data about customizable products is a challenging issue, because of the number of features and options a customer can choose from, and the many constraints that exist between them. These constraints are not tractable without automatic reasoning. But the configuration process, which helps a customer to make her choice, one step at a time, is a traversal of a graph of partially defined p...