Improved virtual build to order

Author

Suarez, M.C. ; Gonzalez-R, P.L.

Author_Institution

Ind. Manage. Sch. of Eng., Univ. of Sevilla (Spain), Sevilla, Spain

fYear

2012

fDate

17-21 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The evolution of the markets in recent years caused the evolution of production systems to adapt to a new kind of demand. This demand is characterized by requiring products more varied, available within a short time and at a reasonable price. We observed an evolution of productive systems from mass production to mass customization strategies. The adaptation of order fulfilment and production strategies to this new paradigm of mass customization offers new opportunities for companies improving their competitive advantages. This work is devoted to perform a simulation study of a new order fulfilment procedure (i-VBTO) to be used in mass customized environments. The results are promising, although additional studies are needed to bring this system into practice.

Keywords

mass production; product customisation; production engineering computing; mass customization strategies; mass customized environments; mass production; new order fulfilment procedure; production strategies; production systems; productive systems; virtual build;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA), 2012 IEEE 17th Conference on

Conference_Location

Krakow

ISSN

1946-0740

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4735-8

Electronic_ISBN

1946-0740

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2012.6489738

Filename

6489738