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Mass Customisation. Mass-customisation. Customisation Interface. User input (Optional). Variational Product Structure. Advanced Logistics. Flexible Manufacturing. Major application. It reduces material stock and dead-stock Personal computers (Dell)
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Mass-customisation Customisation Interface User input (Optional) Variational Product Structure Advanced Logistics Flexible Manufacturing
Major application • It reduces material stock and dead-stock • Personal computers (Dell) • It makes a more manageable product-line • Heavy machineries • Automobile (Ford) • New buying experience • Apparel • Toys
Mega Tech approach • Agile production • Flexible Manufacturing Cell (FMS) • High-speed machining • Robots
Process improvement approach • Product Data Management (PDM) • Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) • eg. DELL
My Twinn • Customers send in pictures of the child • Choose from • 7 skin tones ranging from porcelain to black brown • 15 hair and eyebrow colors • 4 eyelash colors • 26 eye colors
Customer configure the colour and scent of lip gloss using a console interface Machine whip up a batch of custom gloss on the fly www.designinteract.com/features/ IMX Mixing Station
NIKE id • Web customers select the color and size of the footwear they want to buy • Place a message of up to eight characters on the back • The Web-based configuration system transmits the design to manufacturing systems at Nike factories in Asia, where the shoes are made • The shoes are sent directly to the consumer in two to three weeks.
Small batch approach • Layered Manufacturing • Rapid Tooling
Chaos stir-up by mass customisation • I want this radius increase by 5mm, make all necessary change to make it look as good as before • The motor is changed from Brand A to Brand B, change all necessary parts so that the product still work, and remind sales department that the product is now cheaper by $0.5 • Tell me how much more time is need if the customer increase the order from 100,000 to 1,000,000 and what price should I charge, NOW
Comment by NIKE id • The service works through an amalgamation of homegrown and off- the-shelf software that includes online customer relationship management tools, a Web-based configurator and software that translates the dynamic HTML data into a format that can be processed by the legacy manufacturing systems operated by Nike's manufacturing partners in Korea and Taiwan. • "The configuration tools and other systems out there are pretty robust, but they don't typically operate at this level of detail," said Allen, who declined to reveal the software vendors involved in the project. "There was a lot of integration work."
Drawbacks to aware • Users not always know how to articulate what they want (NikeID has to check for bad IDs) • Too many options will: • Make the configuration process time consuming • Complicate the consumer interface • Make error checking on spec. changes difficult • Very demanding on logistics • Maintenance headache