Developing product platforms has been recognized as an effective means to implement mass customization. This paper focuses on the customizability issue of design, that is, to evaluate the cost effectiveness of a design to be customized to meet individual customer needs. A customizability index is proposed to facilitate the analysis of customizability from both the customers and the manufacturer perspectives. It involves two dimensions. One is about the intrinsic nature of a design easy to be customized. The other is regarding the customer-perceived value of customization. The utility theory is introduced to model the customer-perceived value of each individual product feature. Conjoint analysis is introduced to explore customer preference for multiple product features. The customizability index is measured based on the information content metric. Customizability analysis manifests itself through the maximization of customer-perceived value while exploiting the potential of design to be customized specified by optimal customizability indices. 相似文献
Total Customer Satisfaction today can mean embarking on “Mass Customization”: giving every customer a product tailored specifically to his or her needs. In the past, manufacturing was usually “high volume, low mix”, characterized by keeping costs down with economies of scale, or “low volume, high mix”, incurring costs and time for changeovers and special handling. Today's mass customization, however, can result in a challenging manufacturing environment with both high volume and high mix, where customers expect individualized products at the same price they paid for mass-produced items. Meeting this challenge requires changes in the manufacturing processes. Equipment must be more flexible. Most important are the computer systems which support the manufacturing enterprise. Never has data been so essential to define, control, and monitor manufacturing as with mass customization. Motorola's product lines — from the pagers with millions of possible options, to the cellular phones and semiconductors — are all experiencing the move to mass customization. This presentation will describe some Motorola examples and the methods used to achieve world-class manufacturing under these conditions. 相似文献
Platform based strategies have proved to be a successful approach for achieving optimum balances between standardization and variation in many industries. However, application of this concept in the housebuilding industry is relatively new. This article describes a new methodology for developing product platform architectures in the specific setting of the housebuilding industry. This methodology comprises a reference framework describing the basic elements that constitutes a product platform, supported by a protocol for developing product platforms. The applicability of the proposed methodology has been tested at a Dutch housebuilding company. In this study, the methodology demonstrated its added value in determining which modules to standardize and defining a product platform. This article also describes a distinctive method of housing classification that is based on the spatial use of houses. Compared to the traditional classification system based on technical construction elements, the proposed new classification system facilitates a better translation of functional requirements into technical specifications. 相似文献
In any major software project, a large volume of project-related information must be maintained and manipulated throughout the software life-cycle. Often this information is scattered, in different media ranging from scraps of papers to program listings, poorly cross-referenced, and inaccessible. TRIAD, an adaptable, integrated software development environment, has been designed to integrate and manage all this information in an organized and structured manner.
The TRIAD tool-box environment supports different methodologies to guide the users during development and maintenance of project related information. The environment can be customized by selecting a set of forms which enforce a particular methodology. These forms help develop, integrate, and maintain project information. Forms for a methodology can be tuned to reflect a project-team's experience. When customized by the tuned methodology, TRIAD can provide better project oriented support.
TRIAD uses grammar forms as its organizational model. This paper will discuss the advantages of using grammar forms in the modeling and implementation of an adaptable software information editor, within the TRIAD tool-box environment. 相似文献