As the day passes, customers continue to value their uniqueness. It, then, becomes even more crucial to design products to meet the unique needs of every individual. As the development of technology, ...

If your buyers want custom, built-to-order products, but you need to make and sell enough at a low price to compete with mass production, mass customization is your middle ground. As customers get ...

A key challenge facing automotive and industrial equipment manufacturers is keeping pace with growing demand for customized, digital products and services. Combining a range of today’s new ...

Customized parts printed on HP's Multi Jet Fusion 3D printer. The triumph of product standardization, a core principle of mass production, was manufacturing’s man-on-the-moon moment. As essential to ...

Mass customization, where customers order clothing made to their own style tastes and measurements, has been proposed as one solution to overproduction. But the logistical challenges of tailoring ...

From the shoes on your feet to your daily dose of caffeine, many consumer and retail companies are giving people the opportunity to add a flair of customization to the products they buy, generating ...

PC makers, auto manufacturers, clothing brands, and now even General Mills--have tried and will continue to try mass customization strategies over the Web with varying degrees of success. Successful ...

For more than two decades, mass customization has been the future of manufacturing--and for some manufacturers it probably always will be. On the face of it, mass customization is a remarkably ...

When thinking about tailoring a product to specific needs, customers and even businesses will use the words personalization and customization interchangeably. However, they are quite different. One ...

Interfaces are a vital component of modularization. But do machine builders have to adhere to specific standards? One of the most significant challenges manufacturers face is: How do I serve the very ...

The growing demand for customization in quick-service can be attributed to consumer insistence on a “me society” and operators’ intense battle for food-share. Customization in fast food began with the ...