The development of a component commonality metric for mass customization

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 70-85

  Blecker, Thorsten ^a   Abdelkafi, Nizar ^a  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Component commonality; Generic bills of materials; Mass customization

Indexed keywords

OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

COMMONALITY INDEX; COMPONENT COMMONALITY; GENERIC BILLS-OF-MATERIALS; MASS CUSTOMIZATION; VARIETY-INDUCED COMPLEXITY;

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33947239741     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2006.889068     Document Type: Review

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