Mass customization with configurable products and configurators: a review of benefits and challenges

M Heiskala - Mass customization information systems in business, 2007 - igi-global.com
Configurable products are an important way to achieve mass customization. A configurable
product is designed once, and this design is used repetitively in the sales-delivery process …

Scrum versus Rational Unified Process in facing the main challenges of product configuration systems development

S Shafiee, Y Wautelet, L Hvam, E Sandrin… - Journal of Systems and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Product configuration systems (PCSs) are software applications that enable companies to
customise configurable products by facilitating the automation of sales and engineering …

Configuration platform for customisation of design, manufacturing and assembly processes of building façade systems: A building information modelling perspective

P Piroozfar, ERP Farr, L Hvam, D Robinson… - Automation in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Literature on BIM reports case studies and challenges observed when applying BIM in the
construction industry. Literature on mass customisation elaborates on methods and …

The main challenges for manufacturing companies in implementing and utilizing configurators

K Kristjansdottir, S Shafiee, L Hvam, C Forza… - Computers in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Companies providing customized products increasingly apply configurators in supporting
sales and design activities, thus improving lead-times, quality, cost, benefits perceived by …

The causes of product configuration project failure

A Haug, S Shafiee, L Hvam - Computers in Industry, 2019 - Elsevier
Several studies reporting benefits from the use of product configurators in engineering-
oriented companies can be found in the literature. On the other hand, some literature also …

Modeling configurable product families

J Tiihonen, T Lehtonen, T Soininen, A Puikkinen… - 1998 - designsociety.org
This paper presents a method for managing and modelling a product family as a
configurable product. The method enables efficient management of a large number of …

The costs and benefits of multistage configuration: A framework and case study

JB Rasmussen, A Haug, S Shafiee, L Hvam… - Computers & Industrial …, 2021 - Elsevier
Product configuration systems (PCSs) have been successful applications of artificial
intelligence principles in engineer-to-order (ETO) companies in recent decades. Such …

Generic bill of functions, materials, and operations for SAP2 configuration

LL Zhang, E Vareilles, M Aldanondo - International Journal of …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Most available studies on configuration focus on either sales configuration specifying
functional features or production configuration addressing product components. It has been …

[PDF][PDF] Mass customization of services: benefits and challenges of configurable services

M Heiskala, KS Paloheimo, J Tiihonen - Frontiers of e-Business …, 2005 - academia.edu
We have reviewed the dominantly goods focused literature for the main benefits and
challenges of mass customisation, configurable products, and configurators and then …

WeCoTin–A practical logic-based sales configurator

J Tiihonen, M Heiskala, A Anderson… - AI …, 2013 - content.iospress.com
Configurable products can realize the ideal of mass-customization by satisfying individual
customer requirements efficiently. IT support provided by configurators enables adapting …