Increased demand for a greater variety of consumer products has forced many companies to
rethink their strategies to offer more product variants. For manufacturers, producing a variety …

Product line engineering has become essential in mass customisation given its ability to
reduce production costs and time to market, and to improve product quality and customer …

CAD modelling can be referred to as the process of generating an integrated multiple view
model as a representation of multiple views of engineering design. In many situations, a …

Abstract Information systems are key enablers for the integration and reliable management
of the product development process. Fast, robust, and cost-efficient product adaptation is …

The paradigm of modularity has emerged as a relevant way to meet customer requirements
with a wide range of variety and customisation of products, from unique to standard ones …

In the context of mass customization business activities, product configuration (PC) can
assist companies in quickly occupying the market and improving their competitive …

With the formation of world markets, the competition between enterprises has focused on
how to deal with the conflict between scale economy with batch production and customers' …

Modularity intersects technical aspects with the business aspects. This paper analyzes
modularity from this intersection point of view. It involves design for modularity as well …

This article underscores the necessity for sustainable and environmentally friendly
manufacturing practices in product family configuration (PFC) projects, which are paramount …

The agent paradigm can be quite straightforwardly applied to handle complex uncertain
problems where global knowledge is inherently distributed and shared by a number of …