In a demand context of mass customization, shifting towards the mass personalization of
products, assembly operations face the trade-off between highly productive automated …

The layout is an important issue in the design of manufacturing systems. In conventional
systems, the layout rarely changes after the initial design. However, as the market demands …

A great challenge facing industry today is managing variety throughout the entire products
life cycle. Drivers of products variety, its benefits, pre-requisites and associated complexity …

In today's manufacturing environment, change has become a constant. Modern assembly
systems must adapt to products, markets, technologies and regulatory requirements. The …

Product platforms represent an effective strategy implemented by manufacturers to cope with
dynamic market demands, decrease lead-time and delay products differentiation. A decision …

The aim of this paper is to deal with a method that enables the user to design and configure
a production line against multiple-user defined criteria. Machine utilization, investment cost …

A new model is proposed for automatically redesigning product variants using physical
commonality, instead of evaluating alternate solutions provided by designers using …

Modular product platforming empowers product family design by identifying the common
product platform and configuration of product variants for mass customization. The prevailing …

In this work, a method of deriving assembly line design alternatives and evaluating them
against multiple user-defined criteria has been presented. The design problem has been …

In today's business environment, the trend towards more product variety and customization
is unbroken. Due to this development, the need of agile and reconfigurable production …