Mass customization : opportunities, methods, and challenges for manufacturers /: opportunities, methods, and challenges for manufacturers. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Hans Kull.
• Authors: Kull, Hans
• Contents: ""Contents""; ""About the Author""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1: Introduction""; ""Part I: Horizontal Integration in Mass Customization""; ""Chapter 2: Intelligent Manufacturing Technologies""; ""The Smart Factory""; ""The Promise of Industry 4.0""; ""Mass Customization Types""; ""Prototype Case Studies""; ""Locks and Keys""; ""Processing Glass""; ""Chapter 3: Problems in Smart Factory Projects""; ""Why Projects Fail""; ""Increasing Complexity""; ""12 Reasons Why Automation Projects Are Different""; ""Software Is Complex""; ""Software Is Abstract"" ""Requirements Are Incomplete""""Technology Changes Rapidly""; ""Best Practices Are Not Mature""; ""Technology Experience Is Incomplete""; ""Technology Is a Vast Domain""; ""Software Development Is Research""; ""Repetitive Work Is Automated""; ""Construction Is Actually Design""; ""Change Is Considered Easy""; ""Change Is Inevitable""; ""Conclusions""; ""Chapter 4: Future Challenges""; ""Standardization""; ""Complexity""; ""Broadband Infrastructure""; ""Safety and Security""; ""Work Organization and Design""; ""Training and Professional Development""; ""Regulatory Framework"" ""Resource Efficiency""""Part II: New and Emerging Technologies""; ""Chapter 5: New ICT Technologies""; ""Smartphones and Tablets""; ""Small Computing Devices""; ""3D Printing""; ""Visible Light Communication and Positioning""; ""Case Study: Self -- Driving Cars""; ""Chapter 6: Alternative Factory Floor Interface Devices""; ""Gesture Recognition""; ""Brainwriter""; ""Google Glass""; ""Chapter 7: New Manufacturing Technologies""; ""The Internet of Things""; ""Additive Manufacturing""; ""Robotics""; ""Assistive Automation""; ""Advanced Composites""; ""Nanotechnology"" ""Part III: Vertical Integration in Mass Customization""""Chapter 8: Software Integration""; ""Chapter 9: Going Cloud""; ""Byzantine Generals Problems""; ""The Two-Phase Commit Protocol""; ""The CAP Theorem""; ""The Extended Cloud""; ""Double Data Entry""; ""Extending the Cloud""; ""Case Studies""; ""Imagine Glass""; ""Imagine Kitchen""; ""Part IV: Making Mass Customization Happen""; ""Chapter 10: Optimizing System Performance""; ""Solving Complex Engineering Problems""; ""Complexity""; ""The Problems""; ""The Need for Mathematics""; ""Math Matters""; ""Optimization""; ""Stock Access"" ""Other Optimization Problems""""Sophisticated User Interfaces""; ""Complex Business Problems""; ""Simulation""; ""Chapter 11: Commissioning""; ""The Media Equation""; ""Reading and Literacy""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 12: Implementation Process""; ""Building the Vision""; ""Assembling the Team""; ""Communicate the Vision""; ""Iteration""; ""Assessment""; ""Design""; ""Implement""; ""Install and Test""; ""Maintenance and Support""; ""Continuous Improvements""; ""Chapter 13: References""; ""Index""; ""Other Apress Titles You Will Find Useful""
• Publisher Details: Berkeley, CA : Apress
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 148 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 670.42/7; Business; Mass customization; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Industrial Engineering; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Industrial Technology; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Manufacturing; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades; Mass customization; Management science; Business & Economics -- Management Science; Business & management; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781484210079; 1484210077; 1484210085; 9781484210086
• Related ISBNs: 9781484210086
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 25, 2015).
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