A modular minicell configuration for mass customisation manufacturing. (19th March 2007)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Badurdeen, Fazleena; Masel, Dale
• Is Part Of: International journal of mass customisation. Volume 2:Number 1/2(2007)
• Page Start: 39
• Page End: 56
• Publication Date: 2007-03-19
• Subjects: mass customisation -- minicells -- cellular manufacturing; Mass customization -- Periodicals; Manufacturing processes -- Automation -- Periodicals; Manufactures -- Technological innovations -- Periodicals; Computer integrated manufacturing systems -- Periodicals; 670.42705
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1742-4208

Abstract

Mass customisation aims at providing products and services to meet individual customer needs at near mass production efficiency. Successful mass customisation requires a manufacturing system that is highly flexible to adapt to customer needs, has low lead times, and enables customisation at a low cost. Developing a manufacturing system to achieve all these requirements, which seemingly is a paradox, is one of the major challenges to successful mass customisation. This paper presents an approach to configure the manufacturing system as a collection of minicells, dedicated to producing option families, to which products can be routed depending on the customisation needs of each customer.